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The Seattle Police Department has a detailed timeline of events in Seattle on 6/1/2020, the day the SPD decided to barricade a street and prevent protestors from reaching the East Precinct. I’m also drawing on Heidi Groover’s tweets from that day (original). NPR has a detailed timeline of the Capitol coup attempt; Aaron Rupar’s tweets (original) were also very useful for timing of the rally. Seattle 5:40 PM: Crowd [at Westlake Park] now approximately 7000, crowd talking about marching to East Precinct 6:02 PM (original): Crowd starts moving 7:11 PM: march stopped at police line, 11th and Pine [roughly a 25 minute walk from Westlake Park] ...