Yesterday's protest against police brutality came with some rules laid down by organizers, and those rules were followed. It was the largest post-Ferguson protest I'd seen in Seattle so far, and it wound peacefully from Garfield High School to the downtown police headquarters, with stops along the way for speak-outs at major intersections in the Central District and International District. (Our tweets from the march right here.)

Afterward, according to the Seattle Police Department, "a significant number of protesters split off and attempted to march onto State Route 99, along the Alaskan Way Viaduct. When officers blocked the crowd from entering the Viaduct, some protesters pushed against officers and began throwing rocks." The march then wound through downtown and up to Capitol Hill. By the time the evening was over, the SPD says, seven people were under arrest—"five for assault" and "two for pedestrian interference."

What happened after protesters arrived at police headquarters was "upsetting," one of the organizers of the peaceful Garfield-to-police-headquarters march told the Seattle Times. "Because people think it is the same protest, when it is not.”

The Times also noted that one of the people "removed" from the splinter protest by police appeared to be the mother of two young sons. "'They just took her,' one of the sons yelled, wiping tears from his cheeks," according to the Times. "He did not know if his mother was being taken to jail."

Another protest (postponed from Friday due to Figgy Pudding) is set for tonight at 6 p.m. at Westlake Park.