Raving trans rights radicals surrounded a mother with three young children at a rally held by a Christian group outside Seattle City Hall Tuesday, video circulating on social media shows.
The “Rattle in Seattle” protest was organized by MayDay USA, which describes itself as a pro-life grassroots movement that defends traditional family values and units.
The demonstrators descended on City Hall on Tuesday to rally against Seattle’s woke mayor, Bruce Harrell, who blamed the conservative group for a weekend protest that turned violent.
MayDay USA had held a demonstration on Saturday at the city’s Cal Anderson Park that descended into chaos when left-wing counterdemonstrators stormed the event, resulting in 23 arrests.
Harrell blamed the melee in the heart of the city’s historically LGBTQ neighborhood on “far-right” demonstrators and “anarchists” who he said were “promoting beliefs that are inherently opposed to our city’s values.”
The weekend event was one leg of MayDay USA’s five-city “Don’t Mess With Our Kids” tour, aimed at taking a stand against what the group sees as widespread indoctrination of America’s children by the National Education Association “in the ways of LGBTQ, social justice, and beyond,” the tour’s website states.
Tuesday’s protest then also quickly descended into chaos when dueling demonstrations of trans activists and MayDay USA members faced off on the 4th Avenue steps of City Hall.
One frightening video captured a woman carrying a baby, flanked by two young boys, surrounded by counterdemonstrators.
A man, presumably the children’s father, held the hands of boys, one of whom was clearly terrified by the melee and could be seen crying hysterically.
Some members of the counterdemonstration urged the woman to get her kids out of harm’s way before Seattle cops barged in and started separating the crowd from the family.
What exactly happened before filming started and after the clip shared online ended could not be immediately ascertained.
Meanwhile, MayDay USA blasted Harrell for pointing the finger at them for fomenting the violence at Saturday’s rally.
“Following the MayDay USA worship event at Cal Anderson Park on Saturday, Mayor Harrell had the audacity to issue a press release blaming Christians for the premediated violence of Antifa which resulted in the hospitalization of Seattle Police Department personnel and the arrest of 23 Antifa agitators,” the organizers said in a statement.
“Under Mayor Harrell’s leadership, the city of Seattle has continued its spiral into lawlessness and dysfunction while the First Amendment rights of citizens to peacefully assemble has been disregarded.”
FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino announced Tuesday he had requested an investigation into allegations of “targeted violence” against religious groups after the rally, during which eight people were arrested for assault, according to Seattle Police. No injuries were reported.
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