The melee began about 9 p.m., as an officer was taking a prisoner to the West Precinct office at Eighth Avenue and Virginia Street. The officer noted a large group gathered nearby at Boren Avenue and Howell Street, the intersection where Seattle police Officer Ian Birk fatally shot John T. Williams, a First Nations woodcarver, on Aug. 30. The area was the scene of a September protest.
The shooting has been ruled unjustified, but prosecutors recently announced they would not file criminal charges. Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn, meanwhile, declared Sunday John T. Williams Day.
As the officer drove by the group, someone discharged a fire extinguisher at the police car, police said.
Members of the group also had put up plastic fencing and caution tape in the intersection, painted an anti-police profanity on the street and on a nearby building and placed a couple dozen large staples in the street, possibly intended to flatten tires, police said.
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