This is a continuous audio recording of the Floyd protest in Seattle Washington on May 31, 2020. Please listen to this recording on headphones or nice speakers if you want the full experience.

The protest began as a gathering in Westlake Park. From there we began a peaceful march around the city. The march stayed peaceful for the fifty minutes until mayhem broke out between Seneca and Spring st on 4th Ave where the police shut it down with flash bang grenades, pepper spray, and tear gas. The action starts to pick up around the 35 minute mark where you will hear one of the protest leaders negotiating with the police about which direction the protest was heading. The protest remained peaceful until the 50 minute mark where you will hear conflict start to erupt. When the grenades started going off I was about ten feet from the frontlines. I am fortunate that I was just far away enough to avoid the pepper spray. Others, not so much... 

This was recorded on a Sound Devices MixPre-10 II and an ORTF mic rig containing two Sennheiser 8040s. If you would like access to a download of the full quality files please email me and I will gladly send a download link.

Black Lives Matter

-Brian

Floyd Protest Peaceful Seattle 05_31_20

This is a continuous audio recording of the Floyd protest in Seattle Washington on the evening of May 30, 2020. PLEASE listen to this recording on headphones or nice speakers.

This recording starts around 5:30 pm after the initial peaceful protest had turned violent. Rain is pouring from the sky. As soon as I approach the point of conflict the action gets heavy. Around 2:30 you will hear a girl crying from pepper spray and shortly after (4:45) a rioter smashing a window about 10 feet on my right. This is followed by a large deployment of flash bang grenades and tear gas. The rest of the recording is a gradual back and forth as the cops attempt to push protestors out of the city. Even though there was plenty of rioting and looting happening at this time, the strong majority of the protestors in the area remained peaceful.

This was recorded on a Sound Devices MixPre-10 II and an ORTF mic rig containing two Sennheiser 8040s. Since it was raining so heavily I was also equipped with proper rain protection. If you would like access to a download of the full quality files please email me and I will gladly send a download link. 

brian@slossaudio.com

Black Lives Matter

-Brian

Brian Sloss

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