Video: Security Guard Disarms Seattle Protester With AR-15
The protester had taken the gun from a police SUV, according to a local reporter.
Screenshot/KOMO News
Dramatic video from a Saturday night protest in downtown Seattle showed a news station’s security guard disarming a masked protester carrying an AR-15 assault rifle and ripping the magazine from it, averting a potentially fatal interaction in an already tense and violent atmosphere. KOMO News, the Seattle station which recorded the footage, pulled away after the confrontation. Reporter Brandi Kruse with local station Q13Fox tweeted that the protester had taken the rifle from an abandoned police car with broken windows and fired it into nearby vehicles. Kruse’s security guard apprehended the demonstrator and one other with a Seattle Police Department gun before turning the weapons over to police. No one was hurt, according to Kruse. Protests across the country over the death of George Floyd escalated Saturday night, often resulting in violent clashes with the police. Seattle’s mayor had declared a 5 p.m. curfew.
A scary moment from earlier on @komonews, a man pulled out a large weapon (AR-15?) and another person pulled it out of his hands. Smartly, KOMO pulled away from coverage as no one knew what was going to happen next but no shots were fired. pic.twitter.com/ToQ7jipM4N
— John Colucci 😷 (@johncolucci) May 31, 2020
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