Police claimed that barricades were thrown at them during the protest on 1/10/07. This claim is false. It was reported that it happened just before protesters were tear-gassed. But as you can see, nothing involving barricades happened just before that. The whole footage could be uploaded to prove this point, which was running the entire time. However, this videos shows 5--6 minutes before the tear-gassing.

Since the justification for tear-gassing was based on the claim that sawhorses were thrown at police, and that didn't in fact happen, it appears Tacoma Police are once again lying about the events that have happened at this protest.

King5 is apprectiated for getting both sides of the story here. They're trying to be objective about this. However, since my camera was in fact running the entire time protesters were at this particular place (about 30 minutes) and these barricades remain in the same exact place, I have concluded that the police are in fact mistaken about their justification for gassing protesters.

UPDATE: This is how confident I am that no barricades were thrown at police:

I spoke PERSONALLY to Detective Graham, the officer interviewed on King5, and told him I had full footage and recorded NO barricades thrown at police.

Detective Graham wasn't at the protest. He told reporters what he read on a report that a riot officer had issued. I told him to make that report public and he said he would.