Seattle will move to end the police-free zone known as the "Capitol Hill Organized Protest," or "CHOP," after two recent shootings, one of which was deadly, Mayor Jenny Durkan announced Monday -- signaling that a stunning chapter in the city's history could be drawing to a close.The mayor said the violence was distracting from changes…
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A shooting Sunday night was the second round of gun violence over the weekend in an area where officers had pulled out of the police station.Right NowAnother night of gunfire at Seattle’s protester-led “autonomous zone” sent one person to the hospital with injuries.ImageProtesters declared an “autonomous zone” in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle in…
A left-wing Seattle council member’s claims that the fatal weekend shooting in the so-called CHOP zone may have been the work of right-wing agitators were checked by both Mayor Jenny Durkan and protest organizers.Seattle City Council member Kshama Sawant speculated Saturday in a statement, without citing evidence, that the killing of a 19-year-old man was a…
Seattle police on Sunday continued to pursue their investigation of a shooting in a park in the citys protest zone which left a 19-year-old man dead and another person critically injured. No arrests …
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…