His tweets about possibly sending in the military have been met with condemnation from the Seattle mayor, Jenny Durkan, and the Washington governor, Jay Inslee, both Democrats. "We watched a video where anybody else would have gotten charged with something," the black man's lawyer said. They each face up to five years in prison. For many it provides real-life proof that humans do not need a repressive force to be able to live together and get along peacefully.
The several-block area of Seattle overtaken by protesters for two weeks appeared to be weakening Wednesday following the third shooting in four days within the zone, ... supporting the kind of revolutionary change we just created” by voting for presumptive Democratic nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden. SEATTLE — On June 8, Seattle police frantically loaded what they could from the East Precinct into trucks and cars. Fox News has been so hell-bent on covering the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone in Seattle as a sort of existential threat to America that they’ve run altered photos of the scene and (unwittingly) regurgitated Monty Python jokes as evidence of a mutiny in the commune.Since protesters took over the six-block zone that includes the abandoned Seattle East Precinct police station on June 8, Washington state and city officials have largely allowed the overwhelmingly peaceful protest to continue.
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The shooting happened at about 3am in the area near downtown known as the Chaz, short for “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone”, police said in a statement on Twitter. Cover: People walk past street art that reads "Welcome to CHAZ," Thursday, June 11, 2020, inside what is being called the "Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone" in Seattle.
The CHAZ is a unique development in Seattle because of the withdrawal of the police from the area.
Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan, for example, In a segment on Fox News’ “The Story” on Friday, anchor Martha MacCallum read aloud a Reddit post that purportedly indicated “signs of rebellion” against Raz Simone, a rapper and organizer in the CHAZ who’s been accused by Tucker Carlson of “I thought we had an anonymous collective,” MacCallum said, quoting the Reddit post. Previously, I've written for TIME, Newsweek, the New York Daily News and VICE News. Organizers refocus message after Seattle's CHAZ becomes CHOP.
A press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the western district of Washington identified the attempted arsonist as Isaiah Thomas Willoughby, age thirty-five . The de facto leader of the autonomous protest zone in Seattle, known as CHAZ and CHOP, said Wednesday "a lot of people have already" left … Police are reviewing video from the area after a pre-dawn shooting in the city’s protest zone, authorities saidA 19-year-old man was killed and another person was in critical condition after a pre-dawn shooting in Seattle’s protest zone, authorities said on Saturday.The shooting happened at about 3am in the area near downtown known as the Chaz, short for “Police were later informed that the protesters’ own medics transported the two gunshot wound victims to a hospital, the department said.Two males with gunshot wounds arrived in a private vehicle at Harborview medical center at about 3am, said a hospital spokeswoman, Susan Gregg. Tuesday a man was arrested on a federal arson charge for trying to set fire to a police precinct that was at the center of the former CHAZ/CHOP protest area in Seattle.
You can celebrate, and still have a mission.” An officer pulled open Messiah Young’s car door, at which point Young said, “I’m not dying today.” Trump is wildly concerned about reports that he retreated to an underground bunker on Friday.The injured protester said he was trying to stop the man from running down the crowd.One woman accuses Henry of rape while another is accusing Fox News personalities Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity of sexual harrassment.There were three shootings at the Capitol Hill Organized Protest over the weekend, one of them fatal.
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