Seattle cops are weaponizing bikes

Bike cops form a thin blue line between nothing and bupkis. (Author)

Sunday, I went to my first protest in more than a decade. When I was living in Austin, I used to be a regular fixture at demonstrations on a range of issues — war, the death penalty, Palestine, private prisons, etc. — but when I moved abroad, I took a long sabbatical from walking picket lines. I’m noticing a lot of changes. This was a rally against a far-right militia group called the Three Percenters and various allied goons…