Seattle protest: Police charge forward and use pepper spray on retreating protesters

Police have clashed with protesters in Seattle, Oakland and Richmond amid a wave of public anger over President Donald Trump’s planned “surge“ of federal agents into major cities. Police in Seattle used flashbang grenades and pepper spray against protesters who set fire to construction trailers outside a youth jail The sounds of repeated small detonations rang out in the streets of the city in Washington state, and smoke rose from an area where demonstrators had set fire to trailers by a construction site