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My terrifying five-day stay inside Seattle’s cop-free CHAZ
New York Post ^ | 6/20/2020 | Andy Ngo

Posted on 06/20/2020 8:06:17 PM PDT by Beave Meister

SEATTLE — On June 8, Seattle police frantically loaded what they could from the east precinct onto trucks and cars. Within hours, they boarded up and abandoned the station. That night, left-wing protesters from Black Lives Matter and Antifa declared ownership of the six-block neighborhood in the middle of the Pacific Northwest’s largest city. They named their new territory the “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone,” or CHAZ. No laws or rules applied here except for one: “No cops allowed.”

During five undercover days and nights in the zone, I witnessed a continuing experiment in anarchy, chaos and brute-force criminality. In order to avoid being exposed as a journalist — several reporters have been barred or expelled — I slept and showered outside the zone. (Those inside have no showers but they do have portable bathrooms.) I took meals, and most of my water breaks, elsewhere because I was reluctant to remove my mask and risk being recognized. Every day I entered the zone twice through its semi-porous borders — once in the early afternoon, and again after sundown, staying until the wee hours.

Crime has surged inside and outside the zone.

On Saturday morning, a shooting erupted that left at least one person dead and another injured near a border checkpoint. Police were reportedly met with resistance when they tried to get to the victims, who apparently were then taken in private cars to the hospital. Cops made it into the zone to gather shell casings and evidence, some reports said, as police in riot gear stood at the border.

On Thursday, police arrested Robert James after he left the CHAZ. He is accused of sexually assaulting a deaf woman who was lured inside a tent. The same day, former city council candidate Isaiah Willoughby...

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: antifa; autonomous; autonomouszone; blacklivesmatter; blm; bluelivesmatter; chaz; chop; communist; durkan; inslee; jayinslee; jennydurkan; msm; police; riots; seattle; washington
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I can't imagine any kind of business wanting to stay in Seattle. The mayor and governor have turned the city into Flint, MI. No offense to Flint, MI...I would imagine the Seahawks and Mariners will be leaving soon.
1 posted on 06/20/2020 8:06:18 PM PDT by Beave Meister
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To: Beave Meister
Where are CNN, MSNBC, Washington Post, NYT, CBS? They portray these BLM and Antifa thugs as peaceful "flower children" What a crock.
 
2 posted on 06/20/2020 8:13:59 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (Guide me, O thou great redeemer, pilgrim through this barren land.)
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To: Beave Meister

Wow, this guy is incredibly brave. God Bless him!


3 posted on 06/20/2020 8:15:04 PM PDT by Pajamajan ( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't oait. Do it today.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie


4 posted on 06/20/2020 8:15:27 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Good question. No MSM covering the “peaceful protesters”?


5 posted on 06/20/2020 8:17:55 PM PDT by Pajamajan ( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't oait. Do it today.)
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To: Beave Meister

So how come it’s okay for the chaz/chop people to have guns?


6 posted on 06/20/2020 8:19:16 PM PDT by funfan
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To: nutmeg

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7 posted on 06/20/2020 8:21:20 PM PDT by nutmeg (Mega prayers for Rush Limbaugh)
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To: Beave Meister

Let the communist Kyles in Chad kill each other off. Police should just stay out. Why investigate any crime? These Maoist geniuses have it all figured out.


8 posted on 06/20/2020 8:22:40 PM PDT by FlyingEagle
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I can't imagine any kind of business wanting to stay in Seattle. The mayor and governor have turned the city into Flint, MI. No offense to Flint, MI...

Flint may be a post-industrial shithole, but their cops aren't going anywhere.

We do, however, breath a sigh of relief when passing Flint's northern edge on I-75...
9 posted on 06/20/2020 8:24:55 PM PDT by farming pharmer (fork you :(){ :|:& };:)
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To: Beave Meister

Andy Ngo was the guy who got hit head split open during one of the antifa muggings last year.


10 posted on 06/20/2020 8:29:01 PM PDT by IronJack
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To: Beave Meister
SEATTLE…Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone

Nuke it from space, it’s the only way to be sure.

11 posted on 06/20/2020 8:29:25 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit)
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A female reporter from the local Fox affiliate tried to visit but was run out of there.


12 posted on 06/20/2020 8:29:35 PM PDT by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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To: Beave Meister

I feel like going there just to kick ass


13 posted on 06/20/2020 8:38:47 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free equal justice under the law will never exist in the USA)
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To: Pajamajan

An actual journalist (gasp).


14 posted on 06/20/2020 8:57:37 PM PDT by GnuThere
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To: Beave Meister

Two shot, one fatally in insurrectionist occupied Seattle. Cops barred by menacing mob from the scene.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/20/seattle-shooting-police-free-zone-chaz


15 posted on 06/20/2020 8:58:55 PM PDT by NRx (A man of honor passes his father's civilization to his son without surrendering it to strangers.)
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" A female reporter from the local Fox affiliate tried to visit but was run out"

Brave of her to go and try and report, but, she was lucky to get out of there without being hurt.

16 posted on 06/20/2020 8:59:28 PM PDT by Pajamajan ( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't oait. Do it today.)
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"The situation has drawn the continued ire of Donald Trump. 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."

Keep voting Democrat.

17 posted on 06/20/2020 9:06:43 PM PDT by Pajamajan ( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't oait. Do it today.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie
But one online manifesto posted on Medium demands no less than the abolishment of the criminal justice system.

What will happen if demands aren’t met? Jaiden Grayson, a young black woman who has developed a large following in CHAZ, told a filmmaker: “Respond to the demands of the people or prepare to be met with any means necessary. … It’s not even a warning. I’m letting people know what comes next.”

I await with anticipation the arrival of this little commie psycho and her buddies from the (snicker) John Brown Gun Club, in any red state middle class area or small city, say Tyler or Palestine Texas. I only hope she and her thug buddies get all they have coming.

18 posted on 06/20/2020 9:07:02 PM PDT by robowombat (Orthodox)
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To: Pajamajan

He is the guy who got beat up in Portland and put in a hospital for reporting on the Lilly White Anarchist.


19 posted on 06/20/2020 9:14:42 PM PDT by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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” Cops made it into the zone to gather shell casings and evidence, some reports said, as police in riot gear stood at the border.”

Shameful that they didn’t go inside. Utterly shameful.


20 posted on 06/20/2020 9:15:50 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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