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Saturday, August 30, 2025
Extra Seattle police deployed to controversial religious rally
By FOX 13 Seattle Digital Team
Published August 30, 2025 3:32pm PDT
Religious rally and counter protest planned at Gas Works Park today
A religious concert at Seattle's Gas Works Park today will be led by the same group that was involved in a controversial protest in May at Cal Anderson Park. This group is prompting a counter-protest, with some advocates concerned about a repeat of the earlier clash.
The BriefA religious concert and rally is planned for Gas Works Park in Seattle on Saturday.
The event is drawing comparison to an event earlier this summer that put the city on edge.
Police hope their presence will deter violence between event attendees and counterprotesters.
SEATTLE - A religious concert scheduled for Saturday at Gasworks Park has ignited criticism from community members and advocacy groups, who fear a repeat of a controversial rally in May that resulted in dozens of arrests and clashes with police.
Seattle police approach a group of counter protesters at Cal Anderson Park.
Published August 30, 2025 3:32pm PDT
Religious rally and counter protest planned at Gas Works Park today
A religious concert at Seattle's Gas Works Park today will be led by the same group that was involved in a controversial protest in May at Cal Anderson Park. This group is prompting a counter-protest, with some advocates concerned about a repeat of the earlier clash.
The BriefA religious concert and rally is planned for Gas Works Park in Seattle on Saturday.
The event is drawing comparison to an event earlier this summer that put the city on edge.
Police hope their presence will deter violence between event attendees and counterprotesters.
SEATTLE - A religious concert scheduled for Saturday at Gasworks Park has ignited criticism from community members and advocacy groups, who fear a repeat of a controversial rally in May that resulted in dozens of arrests and clashes with police.
Seattle police approach a group of counter protesters at Cal Anderson Park.
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Saturday, June 28, 2014
Seattle archdiocese settles sexual abuse claims
Last updated at 15:12 ET
US Archbishop of Seattle J Peter Sartain (left with Pope Benedict XVI in June 2011) has said he "deeply regrets" the pain suffered by the victimsContinue reading the main story
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The Catholic Archdiocese of Seattle has settled 30 sexual abuse claims by men who attended two religious schools as long ago as six decades.
The abuse is said to have occurred at O'Dea High School and Briscoe School, run by the Christian Brothers religious order, 30-60 years ago.
The plaintiffs, ages 42-68, said the Church failed to protect them.
The settlement involves the payment of $12.1m (£7.1m), which will be paid by archdiocese insurance.
'The first step'
"I deeply regret the pain suffered by these victims," Archbishop J Peter Sartain wrote in a statement.
The plaintiffs' lawyer Michael Pfau wrote in a statement that the settlement represents "the first step in allowing all parties to focus on the future".
The lawsuits filed in King County Superior Court allege both the Christian Brothers and archdiocese failed to protect children from abusers.
Eleven men say they were sexually abused by a former teacher at O'Dea High School, while five said they were abused by a different teacher at the school.
Roughly half of the plaintiffs said they suffered abuse at Briscoe School, which closed in the late 1960s.
The plaintiffs will also receive settlement money from 2011 bankruptcy proceedings against the Christian Brothers.
Two groups holding the religious order's assets sought federal bankruptcy protection following hundreds of abuse claims.
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Tuesday, January 07, 2014
Student rallies continue for Catholic high school principal fired over gay marriage
Education
11:06 PM 01/05/2014
Eric OwensEducation Editor
Students and, apparently, other concerned citizens held yet another rally on Saturday in support of Mark Zmuda, a gay vice principal and swim coach at Eastside Catholic High School in the suburbs of Seattle, Wash. who was sacked — or maybe resigned — late last month after school officials discovered that he had married his boyfriend.
Eastside Catholic fired Zmuda, 38, because his same-sex marriage violates church doctrine as well as an employment contract the popular school administrator agreed to abide by. He got married about five months ago.
The personnel decision has become a polarizing one for people who want the Catholic Church to start accepting gay marriage.
About 80 people showed up at Saturday’s demonstration in front of the local archdiocese’s headquarters in Seattle’s First Hill neighborhood, reports The Seattle Times.
“We want to make sure that no more teachers get fired from their job because they got married,” event co-organizer Shaun Knittel told the gathered crowd.
Demonstrators held signs and chanted slogans, of course. The slogans included “Keep Mr. Z,” “God is Love” and “Love always wins.”
Neither Zmuda nor anyone from the archdiocese showed up at the latest protest.
In a video released recently, Zmuda said school officials told him he could keep his job if he got a divorce, the Times notes.
“Apparently the fact that I have a same-sex partner and (am) having a same-sex marriage . . . they are against that,” the principal at a Catholic school said during an interview conducted by a former student, Catrina Crittenden.
“I also thought another teaching they were against was divorce,” he added. “I’m a little shocked that was even on the table to have me keep my job. They also offered for me to have a commitment ceremony if I were willing to get a divorce.”
Zmuda also maintained that he did not quit his job but was instead terminated. School officials insist that he quit.
In a prior statement to local CBS affiliate KIRO, an attorney for Eastside Catholic said same-sex marriage “is something that is clear at every level of the Catholic Church from the Archdiocese level up to the Pope.”
Students from Eastside Catholic and some other local Catholic schools have been persistently protesting the termination of Zmuda and the church’s position on gay marriage ever since Zmuda was fired. There have been other rallies. There have been sit-ins.
“Our fight for change has gone from a local new story to a national sensation,” junior Nicole Costello told The Daily Caller. “We hope to not only get Mr. Zmuda his job back, but to make a positive change on a much larger scale.”
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11:06 PM 01/05/2014
Eric OwensEducation Editor
Students and, apparently, other concerned citizens held yet another rally on Saturday in support of Mark Zmuda, a gay vice principal and swim coach at Eastside Catholic High School in the suburbs of Seattle, Wash. who was sacked — or maybe resigned — late last month after school officials discovered that he had married his boyfriend.
Eastside Catholic fired Zmuda, 38, because his same-sex marriage violates church doctrine as well as an employment contract the popular school administrator agreed to abide by. He got married about five months ago.
The personnel decision has become a polarizing one for people who want the Catholic Church to start accepting gay marriage.
About 80 people showed up at Saturday’s demonstration in front of the local archdiocese’s headquarters in Seattle’s First Hill neighborhood, reports The Seattle Times.
“We want to make sure that no more teachers get fired from their job because they got married,” event co-organizer Shaun Knittel told the gathered crowd.
Demonstrators held signs and chanted slogans, of course. The slogans included “Keep Mr. Z,” “God is Love” and “Love always wins.”
Neither Zmuda nor anyone from the archdiocese showed up at the latest protest.
In a video released recently, Zmuda said school officials told him he could keep his job if he got a divorce, the Times notes.
“Apparently the fact that I have a same-sex partner and (am) having a same-sex marriage . . . they are against that,” the principal at a Catholic school said during an interview conducted by a former student, Catrina Crittenden.
“I also thought another teaching they were against was divorce,” he added. “I’m a little shocked that was even on the table to have me keep my job. They also offered for me to have a commitment ceremony if I were willing to get a divorce.”
Zmuda also maintained that he did not quit his job but was instead terminated. School officials insist that he quit.
In a prior statement to local CBS affiliate KIRO, an attorney for Eastside Catholic said same-sex marriage “is something that is clear at every level of the Catholic Church from the Archdiocese level up to the Pope.”
Students from Eastside Catholic and some other local Catholic schools have been persistently protesting the termination of Zmuda and the church’s position on gay marriage ever since Zmuda was fired. There have been other rallies. There have been sit-ins.
“Our fight for change has gone from a local new story to a national sensation,” junior Nicole Costello told The Daily Caller. “We hope to not only get Mr. Zmuda his job back, but to make a positive change on a much larger scale.”
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Wednesday, May 01, 2013
A handful of arrests as May Day protesters return to downtown
May 1, 2013 at 10:26 AM
Posted by Mike Carter
Flash bangs explode in a crowd near 5th and Olive at about 8:15 in downtown Seattle. (Photo by Bettina Hansen / The Seattle Times)
UPDATE AT 8:22 P.M.: Capt. Chris Fowler, the incident commander, said police are deploying pepper spray canisters to disperse the crowd.
“It’s a safety issue,” Fowler said.
Crowd continues to head east on Olive, toward Capitol Hill.
UPDATE AT 8:12 P.M.: Police are now herding protesters east on Olive Way. Police using flash-bangs to move the crowd. Objects, including a skateboard, are being thrown at police.
Police continue to use pepper spray to clear the crowd.
Flash bangs between police and protestors go off at 5th and Olive around 8:00. (Photo by Bettina Hansen / The Seattle Times)
UPDATE AT 8:06 P.M.: Seattle police say they plan to give the official order to clear the streets. Things could reach a head soon.
UPDATE AT 7:59 P.M. Police are making more arrests at Olive, between Fourth and Fifth. Police are also using pepper spray for the first time.
UPDATE AT 7:54 P.M.: The two men taken into custody were apparently assaulting a TV cameraman, police say. One was reportedly on a pogo stick (the protester, not the cameraman).
UPDATE AT 7:48 P.M.: Seattle police are making a couple of arrests at Fourth and Pine.
Police work to divert a crowd of protesters around 7:45 in Westlake Park in downtown Seattle. (Photo by Bettina Hansen / The Seattle Times)
UPDATE AT 7:35 P.M.: The crowd has come full circle. They’re now at Westlake Park, where the “festivities” began this morning.
Still no arrests.
UPDATE AT 7:28 P.M.: Police say some are throwing metal pipes and other objects at windows.
Police create a barrier with their bicycles as protesters deploy smoke and march downtown near Sixth Ave. and Pike St. downtown. (Photo by Bettina Hansen / The Seattle Times)
UPDATE AT 7:25 P.M.: Group now at Sixth and Pike and Niketown, epicenter of last year’s violence when self-proclaimed anarchists — some wearing Nikes — broke windows. Heavy police presence there today.
Someone set off a flare.
UPDATE AT 7:20 P.M.: Crowd heading west on Pike over the freeway.
Police say the broken window was at Sun Liquor. A police source says demonstrators may have taken bottles.
Protesters head West on Pike Street. (Photo by Bettina Hansen / The Seattle Times)
A sizable contingent of police follow demonstrators on bike. (Photo by Dean Rutz / the Seattle Times)
UPDATE AT 7:12 P.M.: Even the superheroes got hosed with Silly String. Oh, the humanity.
Crowd continues to march toward downtown, although the marchers don’t seem to know where they’re going.
A window was reportedly broken at East Pike and Belmont. Still no word of arrests.
UPDATE AT 7:01 P.M.: The group has now stopped at Pine and Broadway. Heavy police presence.
Many in the crowd are unhappy with the media. A KING-TV reporter was doused with Silly String.
UPDATE AT 6:56 P.M: Marchers have left SCCC and are heading west along East Pine toward Broadway, possibly in a route that will take them downtown. Police say some in the crowd appear to be lighting flares or some type of smoke devices.
Someone set off firecrackers.
Thus far, no arrests.
UPDATE AT 5:33 P.M.: The rally at the federal building is breaking up and many people are making their way up Capitol Hill for what’s labeled an “anti-capitalist” rally and march.
It’s set to begin at 6 p.m. at Seattle Central Community College.The route of that march is unclear as organizers did not obtain a permit from the city, according to Seattle police. It was during last year’s anti-capitalist march that dozens of protesters wielding sticks, hammers and rocks went on a noontime rampage.
A large group of Seattle police bicycle officers were seen heading up to Seattle Central CC a short time ago.
Seattle police say there have been no arrests.
Thousands of demonstrators rally at the federal building in downtown Seattle for the 13th Annual May Day March for Workers and Immigrant Rights. (Photo by Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
UPDATE AT 4:58 P.M.: Marchers are beginning to arrive at the federal building in downtown Seattle. The march is several blocks long so it will take some time for all to reach their destination.
Things are still peaceful, although some members of the crowd — generally people with bandannas over their faces — are taunting some police. The officers are not reacting.
No arrests.
The highlight of the march was covered by this SPD Tweet: “Brief disturbance earlier at 5th & Jackson between superheroes & clowns. Everything’s under control.”
Police line S King St. as the 13th Annual May Day March for Workers and Immigrant Rights passes at about 3:45 Wednesday afternoon. (Photo by Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
UPDATE AT 3:25 P.M.: In what may be the first sign of potential trouble, Seattle police say they have recovered rocks and bricks possibly placed in advance of today’s May Day events. Police say the objects were recovered in the East and West precincts.
Meanwhile, police are lining the route as marchers may their way to downtown. Still peaceful.
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Thursday, September 08, 2011
Longshoremen clash shuts Northwest ports
A union sign left from Wednesday's clash between police and union workers is seen in the grass and dirt as police patrol an entrance at the Port of Longview in Longview, Wash., Thursday, Sept. 8, 2011. Hundreds of Longshore workers stormed the Port of Longview early Thursday, overpowered and held security guards, damaged railroad cars, and dumped grain that is the center of a labor dispute, said Longview Police Chief Jim Duscha.By Nancy Bartley and Mike Carter, The Seattle Times
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Work is at a standstill at some Northwest seaports, including Seattle, as a long-simmering labor dispute turned violent Thursday morning.
At least 500 longshoremen stormed the Port of Longview, Wash., about 4:30 a.m. and broke out windows in the guard shack, according to Longview Police Chief Jim Duscha. As longshoremen wielding baseball bats and crowbars held six guards hostage, others cut brake lines on box cars and dumped grain, according to Duscha.
Fifty police officers from surrounding areas responded to the scene. No one was injured, and there were no arrests Thursday morning, Duscha said.
Roy San Filippo, spokesman for the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, said the incident started Wednesday afternoon when police pepper-sprayed, struck longshoremen with clubs and “manhandled” ILWU President Robert McEllrath after the union members blocked a train on its way into the EGT Terminal at the Port of Longview. Police arrested 19 longshoremen on Wednesday.
“If he (McEllrath) was one of the crowd that surged forward, some of them were sprayed. When it’s 400 against 20, what are you going to do?” Duscha said. He said he didn’t know anything about reports that police had hit protesters with clubs.
When the longshoremen stormed the terminal Thursday morning, police were “not surprised,” Duscha said. “A lot of the protesters were telling us this is only the start.”
One police sergeant was threatened with a baseball bat and retreated, Duscha said. “One officer with hundreds of Longshoremen? He used the better part of discretion.”
There have been other incidents throughout the summer, police said, including the arrest of seven longshoremen in July for blocking a train, but San Filippo said Wednesday’s incident sparked the wildcat walk-out of Longshoremen at some Northwest ports and the destruction of property Thursday morning at the Longview port. Longshoremen were out Thursday at the Washington ports of Anacortes, Tacoma, Everett and Seattle. Port spokesmen said they have no information about when Longshoremen may return to work.
Tensions between the ILWU and EGT Development, the owner of the new train superterminal, have run hot for the past few months after contract negotiations broke down. EGT, which is jointly owned by Korean, Japanese and U.S. investors, contracted with International Union of Operating Engineers Local 701, based in Gladstone, Ore., to fill the 25 to 35 jobs at the terminal. But the Port of Longview has a contract for ILWU to do the work.
EGT sued the port in U.S. District Court in January seeking the right to pursue its own contract. EGT wants its own people — specially trained to work in the $200 million terminal and capable of unloading a 110-car train in less than four hours.
According to the lawsuit, “The lease did not impose any obligation whatsoever upon EGT to utilize union labor at the terminal, much less obligate EGT to utilize persons who are represented by Local 21 of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union.”
The Port of Longview disputes this, saying it had a working agreement with the union that EGT knew about when it began negotiating the lease in 2007.
“If you disagree, then we have a serious dispute” that needs to be addressed in court, wrote Port Executive Director Kenneth B. O’Hollaren in court documents.
“The Longshoremen are fighting for good middle-class jobs at the grain-handling terminal,” San Filippo said.
A federal restraining order was issued against the Longshoremen last week because the union had made death threats and was accused of assaults, Duscha said.
On Thursday, police remained at the terminal trying to assess the damage, Duscha said. After the protest, the Longshoremen returned to their union hall and set off fireworks, Duscha said.
At the union offices in Longview, the doors were locked and people who occasionally left the building declined to talk to reporters, though one complained of slanted media coverage.
“We held six people hostage? Come on,” that man said.
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Monday, November 30, 2009
Seattle police call to suspect on loudspeaker
Last updated November 30, 2009 12:47 a.m. PT
Seattle police call to suspect on loudspeaker
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SEATTLE -- A hostage negotiator is using a loudspeaker to urge a man sought in the coffee-shop slayings of four police officers to leave a Seattle house and give himself up.
Police shone spotlights on the house early Monday morning and used a loudspeaker to call directly to Maurice Clemmons. Authorities in the region have been seeking Clemmons in the Sunday morning shootings of four Lakewood officers, about 30 miles from the Seattle house.
The negotiator urged Clemmons to call 9-1-1 if he wanted to talk, and said officers were prepared to wait all night.
There was no audible response from the house. Police spokesman Jeff Kappel had earlier said police weren't sure anyone was in the house, and refused to comment on the negotiator's tactics.
Source: http://www.seattlepi.com/local/6420ap_wa_officers_shot_seattle.html
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Seattle police call to suspect on loudspeaker
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SEATTLE -- A hostage negotiator is using a loudspeaker to urge a man sought in the coffee-shop slayings of four police officers to leave a Seattle house and give himself up.
Police shone spotlights on the house early Monday morning and used a loudspeaker to call directly to Maurice Clemmons. Authorities in the region have been seeking Clemmons in the Sunday morning shootings of four Lakewood officers, about 30 miles from the Seattle house.
The negotiator urged Clemmons to call 9-1-1 if he wanted to talk, and said officers were prepared to wait all night.
There was no audible response from the house. Police spokesman Jeff Kappel had earlier said police weren't sure anyone was in the house, and refused to comment on the negotiator's tactics.
Source: http://www.seattlepi.com/local/6420ap_wa_officers_shot_seattle.html
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Thursday, October 15, 2009
Delta Passenger Arrested for Bible Chanting
A Delta airlines passenger caused a disturbance on a flight heading from Seattle to Atlanta. The Delta flight crew had to make an unscheduled stop in Tennessee after the 22 year old man reportedly chanted Bible verses while kicking and flailing inside the aircraft.
According to the police report, Paul Marchuk III was charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest by airport police. He was being held on $20,000 bond. Passengers on the Delta Airlines flight reported to local television station WSMV that the passenger had to be subdued by other passengers after quoting Bible passages.
The arrest warrant stated, "According to a police arrest warrant, "The suspect would not allow the person sitting next to him to leave her seat to use the restroom. The suspect kept telling her that his blood would be on her and he was not going to let her leave no matter what happened. Several passengers restrained the suspect and the suspect attempted to bite one of the passengers in the leg."
The Boeing 757 with 178 passengers and a six-person Delta Airlines crew continued the flight to Atlanta after the arrest. It arrived 1 1/2 hours late. The passenger who was arrested, Paul Marchuk III, was under evaluation Wednesday in Tennessee and apparently has no attorney.
Cheryl Phillips
HULIQ.com
According to the police report, Paul Marchuk III was charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest by airport police. He was being held on $20,000 bond. Passengers on the Delta Airlines flight reported to local television station WSMV that the passenger had to be subdued by other passengers after quoting Bible passages.
The arrest warrant stated, "According to a police arrest warrant, "The suspect would not allow the person sitting next to him to leave her seat to use the restroom. The suspect kept telling her that his blood would be on her and he was not going to let her leave no matter what happened. Several passengers restrained the suspect and the suspect attempted to bite one of the passengers in the leg."
The Boeing 757 with 178 passengers and a six-person Delta Airlines crew continued the flight to Atlanta after the arrest. It arrived 1 1/2 hours late. The passenger who was arrested, Paul Marchuk III, was under evaluation Wednesday in Tennessee and apparently has no attorney.
Cheryl Phillips
HULIQ.com
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