Police Investigating Shooting Inside Seattle's 'No Cop,' CHAZ Zone

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7. Hey look - an empty response! "NO COP zone" - what's so hard to understand?

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Apparently they feel safer without them.

Keeping folks safe is a near-constant thought for CHOP’s 20-plus volunteer medics, including one who parades around in a full suit of medieval armor. They’ve set up a command center on the outside tables of a popular Mexican restaurant, where Frank helps coordinate their actions.

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Any situations they’ve witnessed, including one where someone wielded a knife, have all been de-escalated by people in the vicinity. “It’s the opposite of violent,” says Nim.

He cited demands including defunding the police, funding community safety and freeing all protesters.

I visited the CHOP, a six-block stretch of Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood that community members have declared a “police-free” zone, twice in the first week after it came into being.

On edit: glad to see they are working together to keep people safe. Though it sounds like their response didn't go smoothly.

Arriving police reported encountering hostile crowds after a large force assembled on the edge of the protest zone and entered the area on E Pine to secure the victim