Graffiti on a barricade inside the so-called "Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone" call for the abolition of police is an example of the type of protest at question in the case.
The protesters, Derek Tucson, Robin Snyder, Monsieree de Castro, and Erik Moya-Delgado, were arrested for writing statements like “ the Police” and “peaceful protests” in chalk and charcoal on walls and portable concrete barriers outside the department’s East Precinct in the city’s Capitol Hill neighborhood.Despite a city and county ban on booking most misdemeanor offenders due to the pandemic, the officers invoked a “protester exception” to book them into the King County Jail.
Braden Pence, the Seattle attorney representing the protesters, called the verdict a “big win for free speech.”