I wondering what the residents on those streets think. I'm not seeing much about what people think who live there.
https://reason.com/2020/06/10/seatt...omous-zone-outside-evacuated-police-precinct/
This video link show some vandalism still taking place.
https://gofile.io/d/IffAr1
I wonder what the "authorities" in CHAZ will do when someone calls 911 from inside the zone? The Seattle police claim they will still provide emergency services.
Ranb
My son used to live right there, Pike and Summit. The protest is Pine next to the Summit cross street running several blocks to the east. Pike and Pine are parallel. I don't think anyone is blocked from getting in and out of their parking or parking garage. Mostly it's businesses that are closed because of COVID 19 anyway. All apartments are accessible from one street over and that includes the cross streets right up to where Pine is blocked off.
Look at the Google street view of Pine and Summit then look east to Cal Anderson Park. I've walked down Pike a gazillion times and it's mostly business fronts. I think Pine is the same.
It's only 4-5 very short blocks. Anyway, I don't think much is blocked off that was open.
As for Fox News getting chased out:
Their coverage has been full of lies pushed by the alt-right.
See here for a Tale of Two Cities:
Guardian: Seattle protesters take over city blocks to create police-free 'autonomous zone'
Hundreds of protesters have taken over several blocks of Seattle and transformed it into the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, or “Chaz”, helping to amplify nationwide protests while offering a real-world example of what a community can look like without police.
The police left and it became a peaceful event with relatively little trouble.
But you'd never know that from dozens of other news media reports including Fox:
Fox News: Seattle law enforcement experts urge police to take back CHAZ before it's too late
Officers effectively abandoned the area during violent clashes with demonstrators calling to defund the police.
Demonstrators have since set up occupancy in that section of downtown Seattle and have renamed it “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone” (CHAZ)....
Photos of the area show protesters have remained peaceful –* pitching tents, painting, watching outdoor movies and holding gatherings with music and speeches –*
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photos.
but police have also said they have received numerous complaints about armed guards surrounding the perimeter and asking residents who live in the area to show ID.
Police have also alluded to the potential extortion of local businesses and citizens....
Which apparently there is no evidence for.
Michael Solan, president of the Seattle Police Officers Guild, told Fox News' Laura Ingraham on Wednesday that the occupy-style demonstrations have gone too far and "is absolutely unreasonable activism."
"We lost a precinct, now, what’s next? Are we going to lose another precinct? The city council has removed our ability to have less lethal ammunition for us to properly protect those facilities and protect ourselves,” Solan said.
Fox interviewee claims "an entire city government has handed over the city to domestic terrorists."
No one was shaking anyone down, obviously it is not a domestic terrorist group. That man needs to review what the definition of terrorism is.
Re the video, I'm not going to watch 55 minutes. Maybe you could point out some particular segments?
The beginning shows the "vandal" spray painting windows and the sidewalk and a couple of people telling him not to and to respect the businesses.
