The Seattle anarchist who wore the wrong outfit
Um, someone didn’t get the anarchist memo on what to wear for a day of vandalizing.
Sure, the guy pictured here trying to smash a bank window during
Seattle’s May Day protests has the standard-issue anarchist outfit: Black jacket, black pants, black face-hiding thing.
But look closer. There’s the tucked-in lavender shirt. And the red headband. Probably forgivable, because anarchy is hard work and sometimes your one good black shirt is in the laundry.
But then you get to the shoes … and what the frack is that? It’s a pair of Nikes! That swoosh is unmistakable. (No word on what the guy on the left was doing, but he probably wasn’t a protester).
What makes the irony especially rich is that this window-banger also targeted Niketown while wearing his nice-looking Nike sneakers, as you can see in the next photo.
A third photo, of the same guy at the far right of a black-hoodied trio, reveals more oddities. Everyone else has on some trendy skinny pants, but our rager has on a brown Dad-like belt, and are those
relaxed-fit pants? Definitely the wrong outfit for sticking it to the man.
Some vandals reportedly shed their black clothes to blend in with peaceful protesters. So maybe Tuesday’s weirdly dressed anarchist wasn’t weird at all. Maybe it was all just camouflage, right down to the shoes.
You can see many more photos from Tuesday’s riot in Seattle and the other May Day gatherings in our
complete photo gallery here.
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