Editing 1999 Seattle WTO protests (section)

=== December 1 ===

Overnight, the [[governor]] of [[Washington (state)|Washington]], [[Gary Locke]], called in two [[battalion]]s of [[Washington Army National Guard|Army National Guardsmen]], other law enforcement agencies sent support, and before daylight on Wednesday, troops and officers lined the perimeter of the no-protest zone. Police surrounded and arrested several groups of would-be protesters (and more than one bystander).  Beginning at 21:00, a major clash took place on Broadway in the vicinity of Denny Way, involving rocks, bottles, and police concussion grenades.  It did not involve a black bloc, but appears to have included local residents, although it is known that many local residents were treated as protesters, even being teargassed, despite having no part in the protests. Police called in from other cities mistook the typically crowded streets of Capitol Hill as groups of protesters.<ref>[https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/19991205/2999667/monday-nov-29 Alex Tizon, "Monday, Nov. 29 – Saturday, Dec. 4: WTO Week" ''Seattle Times'', December 5, 1999] ;</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://depts.washington.edu/wtohist/day3.htm|title=Day 3: December 1, 1999|website=depts.washington.edu|access-date=November 22, 2013|archive-date=May 9, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130509051722/http://depts.washington.edu/wtohist/day3.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> More than 500 people were jailed on Wednesday. Throughout the day, police used tear gas to disperse crowds downtown, although a permitted demonstration organized by the Steelworkers Union was held along the waterfront.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9213|title=WTO Meeting and Protests in Seattle (1999) -- Part 2 - HistoryLink.org|website=www.historylink.org|access-date=November 10, 2012|archive-date=October 26, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121026065745/http://historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9213|url-status=live}}</ref>

[[File:National Guard, Downtown Seattle, WTO 1999.jpg|thumbnail|left|Army National Guardsmen marching to their next assignment]]