Welcome to the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, where Seattle protesters gather without police
Posted on AllSides June 11th, 2020
From The Center
Welcome to the CHAZ, the newly named Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, where most everything was free Tuesday.
Free snacks at the No-Cop Co-op. Free gas masks from some guy’s sedan. Free speech at the speaker’s circle, where anyone could say their piece. A free documentary movie — Ava DuVernay’s “13th” — showing after dark.
A Free Capitol Hill, according to no shortage of spray paint on building facades. And perhaps most important to demonstrators, the neighborhood core was free of uniformed police.
A new protest society — centered on a...
Some content from this outlet may be limited or behind a paywall.
AllSides Media Bias Rating: Center
