Courtesy Lindsay Hartwell MORE: Inside Seattle's autonomous zone where residents are … Hundreds of people came together to oppose the city’s police department and call for its defunding. Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan (D) has issued an executive order vacating the “autonomous” zone in the city, otherwise known as the Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP), citing ongoing gun violence, rape, robbery, assault, increased gang activity, and property damage in the area. Over 100 Seattle police officers entered CHOP Wednesday morning where they were met by protesters who overturned portable toilets and erected a barricade of trash bags and cans in retaliation, The Seattle Times reported. Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan expressed outrage after Black Lives Matter protesters showed up at her home Sunday afternoon, despite her previous support and defense of the "CHOP" encampment. The unsettling warning comes after their encampment in the city was renamed to CHOP. A man said he was threatened and briefly detained inside Seattle's “Capitol Hill Occupied Protest” area or “CHOP," while live-streaming the occupied space. One victim, age 16, arrived at Harborview Medical Center at 3:30 a.m. from the CHOP area, transported there by Seattle Fire Department medics, and died in … This is a six block zone in the downtown Seattle neighborhood of Capitol Hill, that was established when the Seattle Police departments (SPD) East Precinct building was abandoned. Seattle’s mayor Jenny Durkan, who once called the Capitol Hill Occupied (or Ongoing) Protest (CHOP) a “block party” and contended that protesters were hosting a “summer of love” is still defending the six-block “autonomous zone” despite her own decision to “wind down” CHOP amid increasing violence. The Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) also known as Free Capitol Hill or the Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP) was established on June 8th 2020. Seattle police disperse crowds at the CHOP zone in Seattle, July 1, 2020. The Chop zone in Seattle after police dismantled it early Wednesday morning. Protesters targeted her home after Durkan announced last week that the city would no longer support the Capitol Hill Organized Protest encampment and would se

Those who refuse to embrace their movement could face a violent end, a group of protesters in Seattle have declared.