Seattle police show injuries, damage suffered from ongoing riots

Nearly 60 Seattle police officers were injured during weekend clashes with explosive-hurling anti-cop demonstrators, according to the department — which released photos and body-camera footage of the carnage.

“Officers are recovering from protests yesterday where they were struck with explosives, rocks, bottles, and wood,” the department’s public-affairs , of the Saturday unrest.

“In all 59 officers were injured throughout the day with one of those being hospitalized. Injuries ranged from abrasions and bruising to burns and a torn meniscus.”

The post i♏ncluded a sampling of photographs showing some♑ of the nasty-looking burns and abrasions sustained from the explosions.

Also included was a v🌺ideo stitched together from the footage🃏 of four different police body-cameras, rolling throughout the day.

In three of them, small explosive🌠s tossed i🉐nto the midst of the cops go off, nicking officers on their legs.

In the fourth segment, a wooden plank whizzed into the officers’ midst, evidently tossed from a throng of retreating demonstrators.

The department’s East Precinct station house — once the focal point of demonstrators’ since-dismantled “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone” (CHAZ) or “Capitol Hill Occupation Protest” (CHOP) — also suffered structural damage from a tossed bomb, police said, an attack under investigation by the Arson/Bomb Squad.

All told, 47 demonstrators were arrested for charges including assault on police officers, obstruction and failure to disperse, as a riot was declared in the city on Saturday, the department said.

The chaos was hardly limited to the Emerald City.

A riot was also declared in Portland, Ore. as thousands of protesters breached a federal courthouse, while unrest also unfolded in Atlanta, Baltimore and New York City.

The nationwide demonstrations are reverberations from the May death of George Floyd, a blackꦉ man killed when a white Minneapolis cop knelt on his neck.