Seattle

Former city council candidate Ari Hoffman said on Wednesday that the Seattle Capitol Hill Organized Protest zone is a “sad state of affairs" and is far more dangerous at night.“A friend of mine told me yesterday, who lives in the area, he says he never goes outside after 8 o'clock at night without a firearm. That’s…

After eight days of continuing clashes with protesters, staff at the East Precinct police headquarters in Seattle suddenly vacated the building on Monday, June 8, shredding documents and leaving it empty. Among protesters, there was initial confusion over why police would outright leave, but organizers suspected a trap. “The SPD seem like what they wanted…

Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best said Monday there is no “cop-free” zone in the city after to a local business owner said he called 911 more than a dozen times when protesters vandalized his business but police never showed up.“There is no cop-free zone in the city of Seattle,” Best said. “I think that the picture…

The city of Seattle and protesters occupying the “Capitol Hill Organized Protest” have reached an agreement that will remove temporary roadblocks put in place by protesters and replace them with concrete barriers, Fox News has been told.The Seattle Department of Transportation is installing concrete barriers in the middle of Pine Street, running East and West, which…

The Seattle City Council on Monday voted unanimously to ban police from using chokeholds, and crowd-control devices like tear gas and pepper spray amid protests against police brutality.The voting comes after the Seattle Police Department used tear gas to disperse mostly peaceful demonstrators protesting racism and police brutality in the city’s Capitol Hill neighborhood following…