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Photos: Protests in Seattle sparked by the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis

Originally published May 30, 2020 at 12:14 pmUpdated June 15, 2020 at 2:14 pm

Protesters yell “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” to police officers at Sixth Avenue and Pine Street on Saturday in Seattle. (Dean Rutz / The Seattle Times)

Vehicles burn on Sixth Avenue just outside Nordstrom in downtown Seattle on Saturday as people protest the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police. (Dean Rutz / The Seattle Times)

A person looks onto Fourth Avenue during demonstrations against police brutality in Seattle Saturday. (Erika Schultz / The Seattle Times)

A demonstrator signals to Seattle Police and SWAT teams during protests against police brutality in Seattle Saturday. (Erika Schultz / The Seattle Times)

A protester is doused with milk to get rid of pepper spray in downtown Seattle on Saturday as people protest the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police. (Amanda Snyder / The Seattle Times)

A solitary protester faces off with police on Fourth Avenue in downtown Seattle.

Protestors and rioters take to the Seattle City streets to protest the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police Saturday, May 30, 2020. 214106 (Dean Rutz / The Seattle Times)

SWAT officers scatter protesters from Fourth Avenue downtown. (Dean Rutz / The Seattle Times)

Seattle police ride through downtown Seattle during protests. (Erika Schultz / The Seattle Times)

Seattle Police walk through Men’s Warehouse after it was broken into during protests. (Erika Schultz / The Seattle Times)

Protesters block Interstate 5 in downtown Seattle on Saturday. (Dean Rutz / The Seattle Times)

Protesters take a knee at the end of a peaceful march through downtown Seattle during “The Defiant Walk of Resistance Against Injustice,” organized by Not This Time!, a nonprofit committed to reducing fatal police shootings and creating safer communities. (Amanda Snyder / The Seattle Times)

Protesters cheer at the end of a peaceful march through downtown Seattle during “The Defiant Walk of Resistance Against Injustice,” organized by Not This Time!, a nonprofit committed to reducing fatal police shootings and creating safer communities. The event honors Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and George Floyd.

(Amanda Snyder / The Seattle Times)

Smoke from a flash bang rises on Pine Street east of Westlake Park on Saturday. (Alan Berner / The Seattle Times)

Protesters raise their arms to the chants of “hands up, don’t shoot” on Saturday in downtown Seattle. (Alan Berner / The Seattle Times)

Crowds pray in downtown Seattle during demonstrations against police brutality. (Erika Schultz / The Seattle Times)

Crowds pray in downtown Seattle during demonstrations against police brutality in Seattle Saturday, May 30, 2020. (Erika Schultz / The Seattle Times)

A protester smashes a Seattle Police car window on Saturday. (Amanda Snyder / The Seattle Times)

Demonstrators try to clean pepper spray from their eyes during demonstrations against police brutality in Seattle Saturday, May 30, 2020. (Erika Schultz / The Seattle Times)

Looters inside the downtown Nordstrom store on Saturday throw merchandise to a crowd below that jostles for the best position to take the stolen goods. (Dean Rutz / The Seattle Times)

Fire rises from a Seattle police car set afire on Pine Street near Nordstrom Saturday. (Alan Berner / The Seattle Times)

Demonstrators try to clean pepper-spray from their eyes during demonstrations against police brutality in Seattle Saturday, May 30, 2020. (Erika Schultz / The Seattle Times)

A demonstrator honors Breonna Taylor during protests in Seattle. (Erika Schultz / The Seattle Times)

A protester who was pepper-sprayed receives a milk treatment for her eyes Saturday. (Alan Berner / The Seattle Times)

Crowds demonstrate against police brutality on I-5 in Seattle Saturday, May 30, 2020. (Erika Schultz / The Seattle Times)

People demonstrate against police brutality in Seattle Saturday, May 30, 2020. (Erika Schultz / The Seattle Times)

Protesters and rioters take to the streets in downtown Seattle on Saturday. (Dean Rutz / The Seattle Times)

Crowds pray in downtown Seattle during demonstrations against police brutality in Seattle Saturday, May 30, 2020. (Erika Schultz / The Seattle Times)

People demonstrate against police brutality in Seattle Saturday, May 30, 2020. (Erika Schultz / The Seattle Times)

A woman uses an aerosol can and igniter to set a car aflame on Sixth Avenue outside Nordstrom in downtown Seattle on Saturday. (Dean Rutz / The Seattle Times)

Protesters burn a police car, the first of several set afire in downtown Seattle on Saturday. (Amanda Snyder / The Seattle Times)

A few people in Saturday’s demonstrations against police brutality break out the windows of cars in Seattle Saturday, May 30, 2020. (Erika Schultz / The Seattle Times)

A looter inside the downtown Nordstrom store Saturday emerges with handbags and other merchandise to throw to the crowd outside. (Dean Rutz / The Seattle Times)

Washington State Patrol members assemble at the corner of the former Macy’s store in downtown Seattle on Saturday. (Alan Berner / The Seattle Times)

Looters carry clothes past Eileen Fisher, which was broken into, as the protests wind down and a heavy police presence comes through downtown Saturday.

May 30, 2020. (Amanda Snyder / The Seattle Times)

Protesters march down fourth avenue in downtown Seattle during the event “March For Justice #GeorgeFloyd,” on Saturday. (Amanda Snyder / The Seattle Times)

Crowds protest against police brutality in Seattle. (Erika Schultz / The Seattle Times)

Protesters gather near a destroyed Seattle police car in downtown Seattle on Saturday. (Amanda Snyder / The Seattle Times)

A protester stands in front of a police line Saturday before officers deployed pepper spray and tear gas, ahead of “The Defiant Walk of Resistance Against Injustice” demonstration organized by Not This Time!, a nonprofit committed to reducing fatal police shootings and creating safer communities. The event honored Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and George Floyd. (Amanda Snyder / The Seattle Times)

Protesters gather on Sixth Avenue as multiple cars burn in downtown Seattle on Saturday during protests. (Erika Schultz / The Seattle Times)

Police deploy tear gas and pepper sprayat protesters to disperse the crowd gathered in downtown Seattle on Saturday.

(Amanda Snyder / The Seattle Times)

A Seattle police car burns during protests in downtown Seattle on Saturday. (Amanda Snyder / The Seattle Times)

A few people in Saturday’s protests started fires inside parked cars in Seattle. (Erika Schultz / The Seattle Times)

Hundreds of protesters head west on Columbia Street to the 3 p.m. rally in Westlake Park on Saturday. (Alan Berner / The Seattle Times)

The protest Saturday was emotional for many who came to mark the killing of another Black man by police, this time George Floyd in Minneapolis. (Alan Berner / The Seattle Times)

Calls for solidarity during the protest across from Seattle police headquarters on Fifth Avenue on Saturday. (Alan Berner / The Seattle Times)

When this protester approached the police barricade Saturday, other protesters asked him to return to the other side of Fifth Avenue and not provoke. (Alan Berner / The Seattle Times)

Images of George Floyd were carried in the crowd across from Seattle police headquarters Saturday. (Alan Berner / The Seattle Times)

Seattle police on the scene during the protest across from their headquarters downtown Saturday. (Alan Berner / The Seattle Times)

There’s a call to videotape the police and protesters raise phones and cameras Saturday. (Alan Berner / The Seattle Times)

Chants of “No Peace, No Justice” by a protester outside Seattle police headquarters Saturday. (Alan Berner / The Seattle Times)

Workers board up windows to a Nordstrom store Saturday morning. (Alan Berner / The Seattle Times)

Bicycle police form a line on the other side of a barricade along Fifth Avenue in front of police headquarters Saturday. (Alan Berner / The Seattle Times)

Police deploy tear gas and pepper spray as a man is doused with water after being pepper-sprayed in downtown Seattle on Saturday. (Amanda Snyder / The Seattle Times)

Protesters chant “no justice, no peace” in downtown Seattle during a the event “March For Justice #GeorgeFloyd,” a protest to raise awareness of police brutality against Black people. Amanda Snyder / The Seattle Times)

Protesters gather at Seattle police headquarters on Fifth Avenue in downtown Seattle on Saturday. (Alan Berner / The Seattle Times)

Chukundi Salisbury leads a chant as protesters gather at Seattle police headquarters on Fifth Avenue in downtown Seattle on Saturday. (Alan Berner / The Seattle Times)

Sheley Anderson, vice president of Washington NAACP, talks as protesters gather at Seattle police headquarters on Fifth Avenue in downtown Seattle on Saturday. (Alan Berner / The Seattle Times)

A young woman screams at protesters doing damage to downtown at the corner of Sixth Avenue and Olive Way in downtown Seattle on Saturday. (Dean Rutz / The Seattle Times)

Vehicles burn just outside Nordstrom on Sixth Avenue in downtown Seattle Saturday. (Dean Rutz / The Seattle Times)

A few people in Saturday’s demonstrations write graffiti on downtown storefronts in Seattle. (Erika Schultz / The Seattle Times)

A burned police car outside Nordstrom on Saturday in downtown Saturday.

May 30, 2020. (Amanda Snyder / The Seattle Times)

Looters carry clothes past Eileen Fisher, which was broken into, as the protests wind down and a heavy police presence comes through downtown Saturday.

(Amanda Snyder / The Seattle Times)

Crowds demonstrate against police brutality on I-5 in Seattle on Saturday. (Erika Schultz / The Seattle Times)

Protesters chant “I can’t breathe” in downtown Seattle during a the event “March For Justice #GeorgeFloyd,” a protest against police brutality against Black people. (Amanda Snyder / The Seattle Times)

Seattle police officers block Fifth Avenue in downtown Seattle on Saturday. (Alan Berner / The Seattle Times)

Protesters listen to speakers in downtown Seattle during the event “March For Justice #GeorgeFloyd,” on Saturday. (Amanda Snyder / The Seattle Times)

Daysha Powell becomes emotional during her speech at the event “March For Justice #GeorgeFloyd,” on Saturday. (Amanda Snyder / The Seattle Times)

Demonstrators put up a sign in downtown Seattle during the event “March For Justice #GeorgeFloyd” on Saturday. (Amanda Snyder / The Seattle Times)

Thousands showed up to protest on downtown Seattle streets on Saturday.

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Dean Rutz: drutz@seattletimes.com.

Erika Schultz: eschultz@seattletimes.com.

Alan Berner

Amanda Snyder is a Seattle Times staff photographer. Reach her at asnyder@seattletimes.com.