CHAZ: Double shooting in Seattle's police-free anarchist zone leaves one dead and one critically injured

The self-proclaimed CHAZ/CHOP zone is based around the Seattle Police Department's East Precinct
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Luke O'Reilly20 June 2020

A double shooting in Seattle’s anarchist zone has left one person dead and another critically injured.

Authorities said the shooting before dawn on Saturday happened in the area known as CHAZ, which stands for Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone.

Seattle police sergeant Lauren Truscott told The Seattle Times she did not know whether police had taken anyone into custody and said she had no immediate details about how the shooting unfolded.

Harbourview Medical Centre spokeswoman Susan Gregg said two males with gunshot wounds arrived in a private vehicle at the hospital at about 3am local time.

Police have largely retreated from the autonomous zone
AP

One died and the other was in a critical condition.

Protesters have cordoned off several streets near a police station in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighbourhood in the wake of demonstrations against police violence since the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis several weeks ago.

Police have largely retreated from the zone after clashes with protesters ended with people throwing things at officers and police using tear gas and other crowd-control munitions.

City officials have said they are still communicating with protest leaders, who had pledged to keep the peace in the zone.

The situation has drawn the continued ire of President Donald Trump.

His tweets about possibly sending in the military have been met with condemnation from Seattle mayor Jenny Durkan and governor Jay Inslee, both Democrats.

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