Big crowds have disappeared but at least 100 activists remain in the streets
This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.Seattle crews on Tuesday used heavy machinery to remove some barricades around the city’s “autonomous zone”, as diehard anti-racism demonstrators camped out for a fourth week despite legal and political pressure to end their protest.
But at least 100 activists remain in the streets, having occupied the area since police on June 8 moved street barricades and vacated their East Precinct station in a move city officials say aimed to reduce tension. “We are grateful that had given us these barricades to begin with,” David Lewis, a product manager at Lululemon who has been organizing protests in Seattle since late May, told Reuters. “More lives would have been lost a couple of days ago as that drive-by happened.”
The first lawsuit established a June 26 deadline to initiate a plan to remove the protest, which prompted Mayor Jenny Durkan to hold a closed-door meeting with protesters and hash out a proposal to begin removing barricades.
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