Here's what you need to know about Seattle's Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone
Photo: David Ryder/Getty Images What is CHAZ? Your ex? Some sort of masked EDM DJ? One of the trolls in Trolls 2: Trolls World Tour?
Who created the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone? After protests began in Seattle at the end of May, standoffs between protesters and police became intense almost nightly, so much so that lawyers with the Seattle firm Perkins Coie, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the Seattle University School of Law filed a lawsuit against the city on behalf of Black Lives Matter Seattle–King County and others.
What are the CHAZ demands? Unsurprisingly, the future of CHAZ and its plans for the East Precinct seem to be somewhat up in the air. Some protesters released a list of 30 demands on Medium; they say that the documented is intended “to represent the black voices who spoke in victory at the top of 12th & Pine after 9 days of peaceful protest while under constant nightly attack from the Seattle Police Department.
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