WEBVTT FILE X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=MPEGTS:0,LOCAL:00:00:00.000 1 00:00:02.780 --> 00:00:04.610 LIVE, LOCAL, IN-DEPTH KIRO 2 00:00:04.610 --> 00:00:07.550 7 NEW STARTS NOW . 3 00:00:07.550 --> 00:00:10.080 TONIGHT, THE CAPITOL HILL 4 00:00:10.080 --> 00:00:10.950 OCCUPIED PROTEST ZONE IS 5 00:00:10.950 --> 00:00:11.320 CLEARED OUT AT THE MAYOR'S 6 00:00:11.320 --> 00:00:14.050 ORDER. 7 00:00:14.050 --> 00:00:14.860 THE DETERIORATING CONDITIONS 8 00:00:14.860 --> 00:00:16.740 IN REPEATED GUN VIOLENCE 9 00:00:24.410 --> 00:00:25.410 ADDRESS PUBLIC SAFETY CONCERNS. 10 00:00:25.410 --> 00:00:26.680 WITH POLICE ARRESTING DOZENS 11 00:00:26.680 --> 00:00:27.180 OF PROTESTERS UPSET AT BEING 12 00:00:27.180 --> 00:00:28.110 FORCED OUT. 13 00:00:28.110 --> 00:00:28.780 I FEEL THAT THE MAYOR DOES 14 00:00:28.780 --> 00:00:31.920 NOT CARE ABOUT US. 15 00:00:31.920 --> 00:00:32.590 MANY RESIDENTS AND BUSINESS 16 00:00:32.590 --> 00:00:34.000 OWNERS ARE RELIEVED. 17 00:00:38.160 --> 00:00:38.460 I CAN'T TELL YOU HOW HAPPY I 18 00:00:38.460 --> 00:00:39.360 AM. 19 00:00:39.360 --> 00:00:40.690 IT IS A NEW BEGINNING. 20 00:00:40.690 --> 00:00:41.690 CLOSE-UP LOOK AT HOW SEATTLE 21 00:00:41.690 --> 00:00:44.040 POLICE RETOOK THE EAST PRECINCT 22 00:00:47.130 --> 00:00:49.480 AFTER LEAVING IT THREE WEEKS 23 00:00:53.070 --> 00:00:54.070 AGO. 24 00:00:54.070 --> 00:00:55.040 THE CHOP IS CLEAR, BUT SOME 25 00:00:55.040 --> 00:00:55.880 DEMONSTRATORS SAY THEY PLAN TO 26 00:00:55.880 --> 00:00:56.610 START A NEW PROTEST ZONE 27 00:00:56.610 --> 00:00:57.140 TONIGHT AT CITY HALL. 28 00:00:57.140 --> 00:00:59.910 GOOD EVENING. 29 00:00:59.910 --> 00:01:00.810 I AM MONIQUE MING LAVEN. 30 00:01:00.810 --> 00:01:01.610 THEY PLAN TO MARCH DOWN 31 00:01:01.610 --> 00:01:03.960 THERE IN ABOUT ONE HOUR. 32 00:01:06.790 --> 00:01:07.650 WE HAVE TEAM COVERAGE COVERING 33 00:01:07.650 --> 00:01:08.620 THE REACTION FROM RESIDENTS, 34 00:01:08.620 --> 00:01:09.590 THE PRE-TAKING OF THE PRECINCT 35 00:01:09.590 --> 00:01:10.060 AND THE DEMONSTRATORS ARRESTED 36 00:01:10.060 --> 00:01:11.760 BY POLICE. 37 00:01:11.760 --> 00:01:13.660 WE BEGIN TONIGHT LIVE TONIGHT 38 00:01:13.660 --> 00:01:16.330 AT BROADWAY AND PINE. 39 00:01:16.330 --> 00:01:16.830 GARY, THE CROWD HAS BEEN 40 00:01:16.830 --> 00:01:17.730 PROTESTING. 41 00:01:17.730 --> 00:01:18.870 A LINE OF OFFICERS ARE KEEPING 42 00:01:18.870 --> 00:01:22.870 EVERYONE OUT. 43 00:01:22.870 --> 00:01:23.940 Reporter: ABSOLUTELY, DAVE. 44 00:01:23.940 --> 00:01:25.000 WE ARE A GOOD TWO BLOCKS AWAY 45 00:01:25.000 --> 00:01:26.310 FROM WHERE THE CHOP ZONE WAS 46 00:01:26.310 --> 00:01:28.780 ESTABLISHED UP THE STREET. 47 00:01:28.780 --> 00:01:31.310 FOR SEVERAL HOURS NOW, THIS HAS 48 00:01:31.310 --> 00:01:32.150 BEEN THE FAR WESTERN BORDER 49 00:01:32.150 --> 00:01:33.950 POLICE HAVE SET UP TO KEEP 50 00:01:33.950 --> 00:01:36.770 PEOPLE OUT OF THE AREA FORMERLY 51 00:01:39.020 --> 00:01:40.020 KNOWN AS THE CHOP ZONE. 52 00:01:40.020 --> 00:01:40.920 CITY WORKERS, WE ARE TOLD HAVE 53 00:01:40.920 --> 00:01:41.820 A MONUMENTAL JOB WORKING TO 54 00:01:41.820 --> 00:01:43.620 CLEAR THE STREETS FOR TRAFFIC. 55 00:01:43.620 --> 00:01:44.660 WE SAW THIS MAN ARRESTED WITHIN 56 00:01:44.660 --> 00:01:45.660 A FEW FEET OF THE POLICE LINE 57 00:01:45.660 --> 00:01:48.530 AFTER HE CROSSED IT. 58 00:01:48.530 --> 00:01:49.800 IT APPEARS TO US OFFICERS ARE 59 00:01:49.800 --> 00:01:54.770 ARRESTING EVERYONE WHO TRIES TO 60 00:01:54.770 --> 00:01:55.400 GET PAST THEM. 61 00:01:55.400 --> 00:01:56.300 NO TOLERANCE HERE. 62 00:01:56.300 --> 00:01:58.070 REMEMBER, THIS WAS AN AREA 63 00:01:58.070 --> 00:01:59.110 WHERE OFFICERS WOULD NOT 64 00:01:59.110 --> 00:01:59.970 RESPOND TO 911 CALLS FOR THREE 65 00:01:59.970 --> 00:02:00.510 WEEKS, UNLESS IT WAS LIFE- 66 00:02:00.510 --> 00:02:00.980 THREATENING. 67 00:02:06.310 --> 00:02:07.080 IT WAS ALSO AN ARREST OF THE 68 00:02:07.080 --> 00:02:07.980 PROTESTERS THAT RAN PAST 69 00:02:07.980 --> 00:02:08.920 OFFICERS AND TRIED TO STOP A 70 00:02:08.920 --> 00:02:10.080 LOADED DUMPSTER TRUCK, WHICH 71 00:02:10.080 --> 00:02:10.520 WAS PRESUMABLY FILLED WITH THE 72 00:02:10.520 --> 00:02:15.220 MATERIAL. 73 00:02:15.220 --> 00:02:16.060 THE TENTS AND DEBRIS LEFT 74 00:02:16.060 --> 00:02:17.260 BEHIND AFTER MOVING IN AND 75 00:02:17.260 --> 00:02:18.860 CLEARING THE STREETS. 76 00:02:18.860 --> 00:02:19.160 WE ARE GOING TO COME BACK TO 77 00:02:19.160 --> 00:02:19.630 LIVE. 78 00:02:27.300 --> 00:02:28.270 I AM SEEING A THINNER CROWD. 79 00:02:28.270 --> 00:02:28.970 ONLY PEOPLE LIVING INSIDE THAT 80 00:02:28.970 --> 00:02:30.240 AREA ARE ALLOWED IN. 81 00:02:30.240 --> 00:02:31.240 WE DON'T HAVE ANY KIND OF 82 00:02:31.240 --> 00:02:33.590 TIMELINE FOR WHEN OFFICERS WILL 83 00:02:36.440 --> 00:02:37.380 REOPEN THIS LINE AND ALLOW 84 00:02:37.380 --> 00:02:37.740 TRAFFIC AND PEOPLE TO COME IN 85 00:02:37.740 --> 00:02:38.610 AGAIN. 86 00:02:38.610 --> 00:02:39.580 THERE ARE RUMORS GOING AROUND 87 00:02:39.580 --> 00:02:40.550 THAT IT COULD BE DAYS. 88 00:02:40.550 --> 00:02:44.120 WE ARE TRYING TO CONFIRM ALL OF 89 00:02:44.120 --> 00:02:44.720 THAT IN KEEPING AN EYE ON THIS 90 00:02:44.720 --> 00:02:46.130 PORTION FOR YOU. 91 00:02:52.760 --> 00:02:53.660 THIS IS A FLASHPOINT, DAVE. 92 00:02:53.660 --> 00:02:57.130 THE CLEARING BEGAN AFTER 93 00:02:57.130 --> 00:02:58.030 MAYOR JENNY DURKAN ISSUED AN 94 00:02:58.030 --> 00:02:59.630 EXECUTIVE ORDER AT 5:00 A.M. 95 00:02:59.630 --> 00:03:00.630 RYAN SIMMS LOOKS INTO HOW IT 96 00:03:00.630 --> 00:03:03.700 WENT DOWN, AND THE ARRESTS THAT 97 00:03:03.700 --> 00:03:06.840 Reporter: YOU CAN SEE THAT 98 00:03:06.840 --> 00:03:09.480 THE CHOP IS BLOCKED OFF YET 99 00:03:09.480 --> 00:03:09.940 AGAIN, BUT NOT THE WAY WE HAVE 100 00:03:09.940 --> 00:03:10.710 BEEN SEEING. 101 00:03:10.710 --> 00:03:13.210 THAT IS POLICE TAPE THAT 102 00:03:13.210 --> 00:03:13.550 DOESN'T LET ANYONE THROUGH 103 00:03:13.550 --> 00:03:14.510 HERE. 104 00:03:14.510 --> 00:03:15.380 THERE IS A SUBSTANTIAL POLICE 105 00:03:15.380 --> 00:03:17.480 PRESENCE ON THE SCENE AND IT 106 00:03:17.480 --> 00:03:17.920 HAS BEEN THIS WAY FOR GOING ON 107 00:03:17.920 --> 00:03:19.620 15 HOURS. 108 00:03:19.620 --> 00:03:20.190 POLICE MADE THEIR MARK AT 109 00:03:20.190 --> 00:03:22.360 SUNRISE TODAY. 110 00:03:22.360 --> 00:03:24.710 SWARMS OF OFFICERS, EASILY MORE 111 00:03:28.390 --> 00:03:29.260 THAN 100 BARRELS IN. THE SHOW 112 00:03:29.260 --> 00:03:30.300 OF FORCE SURPRISED EVEN THE 113 00:03:30.300 --> 00:03:31.300 VOLUNTEER SECURITY GUARDS WHO 114 00:03:31.300 --> 00:03:31.660 HAD BEEN WATCHING OVER THE 115 00:03:31.660 --> 00:03:35.000 CHOP. 116 00:03:35.000 --> 00:03:37.820 YOU HAVE 80 SUVS ROLLING IN 117 00:03:45.380 --> 00:03:45.750 ON YOU AND ANOTHER 80 BICYCLE 118 00:03:45.750 --> 00:03:46.680 COPS. 119 00:03:46.680 --> 00:03:47.380 AND, YOU SEE A COUPLE BEARCATS 120 00:03:47.380 --> 00:03:48.350 COMING IN AND S.W.A.T. 121 00:03:48.350 --> 00:03:49.180 OFFICERS HANGING OFF THE SIDE. 122 00:03:49.180 --> 00:03:50.180 AS WE WALKED AROUND THE 123 00:03:50.180 --> 00:03:51.180 NEIGHBORHOOD, MANY PEOPLE WERE 124 00:03:51.180 --> 00:03:52.090 COMING OUT OF THEIR APARTMENTS 125 00:03:52.090 --> 00:03:52.950 AND HOMES AND THANKING THE 126 00:03:52.950 --> 00:03:53.850 OFFICERS PROFUSELY FOR BEING 127 00:03:53.850 --> 00:03:54.290 THERE AND HELPING TO CLEAN OUT 128 00:03:54.290 --> 00:03:55.120 THE AREA. 129 00:03:55.120 --> 00:03:58.360 WE DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW MUCH 130 00:03:58.360 --> 00:03:59.290 TRAUMA PEOPLE WERE EXPERIENCING 131 00:03:59.290 --> 00:04:03.860 BECAUSE OF WHAT WAS HAPPENING 132 00:04:03.860 --> 00:04:04.760 IN THAT AREA. 133 00:04:04.760 --> 00:04:05.730 BELLEVUE POLICE AND FBI 134 00:04:05.730 --> 00:04:10.400 AGENTS HELPED SEATTLE POLICE IN 135 00:04:10.400 --> 00:04:10.940 THE EARLY DAWN OPERATION, USING 136 00:04:10.940 --> 00:04:11.940 LOUDSPEAKERS. 137 00:04:11.940 --> 00:04:12.870 OFFICERS WARNED PROTESTERS THEY 138 00:04:12.870 --> 00:04:13.610 WOULD BE ARRESTED IF THEY DID 139 00:04:13.610 --> 00:04:15.940 NOT LEAVE IMMEDIATELY. 140 00:04:15.940 --> 00:04:16.540 WITNESSES SAY PROTESTERS WERE 141 00:04:16.540 --> 00:04:18.850 CAUGHT OFFGUARD. 142 00:04:18.850 --> 00:04:21.200 THEY ARE FREAKING OUT AND 143 00:04:24.480 --> 00:04:25.550 SCARED, BECAUSE IT HAS BEEN 144 00:04:25.550 --> 00:04:26.650 ATTACKED A LOT BY THE POLICE 145 00:04:26.650 --> 00:04:29.940 AND NOW THEY ARE SHOWING UP IN 146 00:04:43.600 --> 00:04:44.030 PEOPLE, MOST FOR FAILURE TO 147 00:04:44.030 --> 00:04:44.930 DISPERSE. 148 00:04:44.930 --> 00:04:45.900 SOME FOR OBSTRUCTION, ASSAULT 149 00:04:45.900 --> 00:04:48.870 AND UNLAWFUL WEAPON POSSESSION. 150 00:04:48.870 --> 00:04:49.870 AFTER THAT CAME CLEANUP CREWS 151 00:04:49.870 --> 00:04:52.170 FROM SDOT PICKING UP TRASH AND 152 00:04:52.170 --> 00:04:55.910 MOVING TENTS AND TAKING DOWN 153 00:04:55.910 --> 00:04:56.580 THE ALUMINUM REINFORCEMENTS 154 00:04:56.580 --> 00:04:57.480 AROUND BARRICADES. 155 00:04:57.480 --> 00:04:58.380 DESPITE THE INTENSITY OF THE 156 00:04:58.380 --> 00:04:58.710 SITUATION, NO OFFICERS WERE 157 00:04:58.710 --> 00:05:00.850 HURT. 158 00:05:00.850 --> 00:05:03.820 THE NEXT FEW DAYS, WE WILL BE 159 00:05:03.820 --> 00:05:04.490 MONITORING THE CLEANUP. 160 00:05:04.490 --> 00:05:06.650 IT IS SUBSTANTIAL. 161 00:05:06.650 --> 00:05:07.760 AT THIS TIME, WE STILL DON'T 162 00:05:07.760 --> 00:05:08.820 KNOW HOW MUCH IT WILL COST TO 163 00:05:08.820 --> 00:05:13.030 CLEAN UP ALL OF CHOP. 164 00:05:13.030 --> 00:05:13.730 WE HOPE TO GET THOSE NUMBERS 165 00:05:13.730 --> 00:05:17.630 LATER ON THIS WEEK. 166 00:05:17.630 --> 00:05:18.500 WE ARE ON CAPITOL HILL TONIGHT, 167 00:05:18.500 --> 00:05:19.430 RYAN SIMMS KIRO 7 NEWS. 168 00:05:19.430 --> 00:05:20.370 AT PRESS CONFERENCE THIS 169 00:05:20.370 --> 00:05:22.470 AFTERNOON, MAYOR DURKAN'S AND 170 00:05:22.470 --> 00:05:25.110 CHIEF BEST SAID IT HAD TO BE 171 00:05:25.110 --> 00:05:25.510 BROKEN UP FOR SAFETY AND PUBLIC 172 00:05:25.510 --> 00:05:27.610 HEALTH. 173 00:05:27.610 --> 00:05:28.680 IN CONVERSATIONS OVER THE 174 00:05:28.680 --> 00:05:29.840 WEEKEND, IT WAS CLEAR THAT MANY 175 00:05:29.840 --> 00:05:31.980 INDIVIDUALS WOULD NOT LEAVE. 176 00:05:31.980 --> 00:05:34.310 AND, THAT THE IMPACTS TO THE 177 00:05:34.310 --> 00:05:36.080 COMMUNITY COULD NOT BE REDUCED 178 00:05:36.080 --> 00:05:36.980 AND THE PUBLIC SAFETY COULD NOT 179 00:05:36.980 --> 00:05:41.860 BE IMPROVED UNTIL THEY DID 180 00:05:41.860 --> 00:05:44.760 LEAVE. 181 00:05:44.760 --> 00:05:45.730 WE SUPPORT PEOPLE'S FIRST 182 00:05:45.730 --> 00:05:46.660 AMENDMENT, FREE-SPEECH RIGHTS. 183 00:05:46.660 --> 00:05:47.590 BUT, WE CERTAINLY CAN'T CONDONE 184 00:05:47.590 --> 00:05:48.260 AND PROMOTE LAWLESSNESS IN ANY 185 00:05:48.260 --> 00:05:49.160 AREA OF THE CITY. 186 00:05:49.160 --> 00:05:50.160 DURKIN ADDED SHE DID NOT 187 00:05:50.160 --> 00:05:52.980 WANT ANY OF THOSE ARRESTED AND 188 00:05:55.440 --> 00:05:56.340 CITED FOR MISDEMEANORS CHARGED. 189 00:05:56.340 --> 00:05:59.210 GETTING OFFICERS BACK INTO 190 00:05:59.210 --> 00:05:59.910 THE EAST PRECINCT TOOK A 191 00:05:59.910 --> 00:06:00.910 COORDINATED EFFORT. 192 00:06:00.910 --> 00:06:01.810 WE HAVE MORE VIDEO SHOWING HOW 193 00:06:01.810 --> 00:06:05.750 THEY GAINED CONTROL AND WHAT 194 00:06:05.750 --> 00:06:07.450 THEY FOUND INSIDE. 195 00:06:07.450 --> 00:06:09.450 POLICE DEPARTMENT. 196 00:06:09.450 --> 00:06:12.790 YOU ARE INSIDE THIS BUILDING. 197 00:06:12.790 --> 00:06:13.220 YOU NEED TO COME OUT WITH YOUR 198 00:06:13.220 --> 00:06:14.050 HANDS UP. 199 00:06:14.050 --> 00:06:14.860 Reporter: THE CAMERA WAS 200 00:06:14.860 --> 00:06:15.790 ROLLING A SEATTLE POLICE 201 00:06:15.790 --> 00:06:18.090 ENTERED THE EAST PRECINCT FOR 202 00:06:18.090 --> 00:06:18.590 THE FIRST TIME IN MORE THAN 203 00:06:18.590 --> 00:06:20.460 THREE WEEKS. 204 00:06:20.460 --> 00:06:22.930 OFFICERS ENTERED SLOWLY, NOT 205 00:06:22.930 --> 00:06:24.360 KNOWING WHAT THEY WOULD FIND 206 00:06:24.360 --> 00:06:28.870 AFTER PROTESTERS TURNED THE 207 00:06:28.870 --> 00:06:29.740 POLICE DEPARTMENT INTO THE 208 00:06:29.740 --> 00:06:30.570 SEATTLE CIVIL DEPARTMENT. 209 00:06:30.570 --> 00:06:31.410 THEY BROUGHT IN DOGS TO HELP 210 00:06:31.410 --> 00:06:35.140 THEM SEARCH THE BUILDING. 211 00:06:35.140 --> 00:06:35.480 YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT YOU WILL 212 00:06:35.480 --> 00:06:35.950 FIND. 213 00:06:40.880 --> 00:06:41.250 ESPECIALLY WITH WHAT WAS AROUND 214 00:06:41.250 --> 00:06:42.280 HERE. 215 00:06:42.280 --> 00:06:43.250 Reporter: THIS IS A LAW 216 00:06:43.250 --> 00:06:43.980 ENFORCEMENT EXPERT AND WORK FOR 217 00:06:43.980 --> 00:06:44.920 THE KING COUNTY SHERIFF'S 218 00:06:44.920 --> 00:06:45.720 OFFICE AS ITS CHIEF HALF DISH 219 00:06:45.720 --> 00:06:46.720 NEGOTIATOR FOR DECADES. 220 00:06:46.720 --> 00:06:50.090 HE WAS WATCHING CLOSELY AS SPD 221 00:06:50.090 --> 00:06:51.390 RECLAIMED THE PRECINCT. 222 00:06:51.390 --> 00:06:53.860 I DON'T THINK THE POLICE ARE 223 00:06:53.860 --> 00:06:54.760 EVER GOING TO GIVE UP THE 224 00:06:54.760 --> 00:06:57.100 PRECINCT, OR ANY OTHER PUBLIC 225 00:06:57.100 --> 00:06:58.030 PROPERTY LIKE THAT AGAIN. 226 00:06:58.030 --> 00:06:59.170 Reporter: SOON AFTER THE 227 00:06:59.170 --> 00:07:03.240 BUILDING WAS SEARCHED, CHIEF 228 00:07:03.240 --> 00:07:03.670 CARMEN BEST CAME TO SEE FOR 229 00:07:03.670 --> 00:07:04.300 HERSELF. 230 00:07:04.300 --> 00:07:05.910 HOW ARE YOU? 231 00:07:05.910 --> 00:07:06.810 HELLO CHIEF. 232 00:07:06.810 --> 00:07:08.690 Reporter: THERE WERE NO 233 00:07:12.540 --> 00:07:16.410 OFFICERS POURED INTO THE 234 00:07:16.410 --> 00:07:17.080 PRECINCT AFTER SPENDING HOURS 235 00:07:17.080 --> 00:07:18.780 TAKING BACK CONTROL. 236 00:07:18.780 --> 00:07:20.150 WE ARE BACK IN OUR PRECINCT 237 00:07:20.150 --> 00:07:23.280 FINALLY. 238 00:07:23.280 --> 00:07:24.780 WORD. 239 00:07:24.780 --> 00:07:28.290 THE NEHOOD. 240 00:07:28.290 --> 00:07:29.360 PEOPLE ARE COMING OUT AND THEY 241 00:07:29.360 --> 00:07:30.220 ARE GRATEFUL THAT WE ARE HERE. 242 00:07:30.220 --> 00:07:35.130 Reporter: THEY CELEBRATED 243 00:07:35.130 --> 00:07:36.130 TODAY'S SAFE RETURN. 244 00:07:36.130 --> 00:07:38.500 BUT WITH PROTESTERS ROAMING AND 245 00:07:38.500 --> 00:07:43.170 WONDERING WHAT TO DO NEXT, THEY 246 00:07:43.170 --> 00:07:44.840 FORWARD? 247 00:07:44.840 --> 00:07:48.130 WHAT WILL IT TAKE TO KEEP THAT 248 00:07:50.780 --> 00:07:51.250 MANPOWER. 249 00:07:57.080 --> 00:07:57.490 Reporter: POLICE OFTEN DO 250 00:07:57.490 --> 00:07:58.390 S.W.A.T. 251 00:07:58.390 --> 00:08:00.620 OPERATIONS IN THE EARLY MORNING 252 00:08:00.620 --> 00:08:01.390 WHEN PEOPLE ARE SLEEPING. 253 00:08:01.390 --> 00:08:02.390 Reporter: THE NEW YORK 254 00:08:02.390 --> 00:08:04.270 ATTORNEY GENERAL, WILLIAM BARR 255 00:08:08.460 --> 00:08:12.070 SEND OUT A STATEMENT CALLING 256 00:08:12.070 --> 00:08:14.890 CHOP A HAVEN FOR VIOLENT CRIME. 257 00:08:18.510 --> 00:08:20.810 HE COMMENDED CHIEF CARMEN BEST. 258 00:08:20.810 --> 00:08:21.740 SHE CONTINUES THE CONVERSATION 259 00:08:21.740 --> 00:08:22.680 WHILE ENDING THE VIOLENCE WHICH 260 00:08:22.680 --> 00:08:23.540 THREATENS INNOCENT PEOPLE AND 261 00:08:23.540 --> 00:08:25.250 UNDERMINES THE RULE OF LAW 262 00:08:25.250 --> 00:08:25.910 PRINCIPLES THAT THE PROTESTERS 263 00:08:25.910 --> 00:08:26.910 PROTEST TO DEFEND. 264 00:08:26.910 --> 00:08:27.820 A LOT OF PEOPLE IN THE 265 00:08:27.820 --> 00:08:29.680 NEIGHBORHOOD WERE IMPACTED BY 266 00:08:29.680 --> 00:08:31.790 CHOP AND BY THE CLEARING TODAY. 267 00:08:31.790 --> 00:08:32.650 GRANDMA JOHNSON SPOKE TO SOME 268 00:08:32.650 --> 00:08:34.560 OF THEM AND FOUND MIXED 269 00:08:34.560 --> 00:08:35.990 REACTION TO THE CITY'S 270 00:08:35.990 --> 00:08:38.160 DECISION. 271 00:08:38.160 --> 00:08:38.890 Reporter: THERE IS A VARIETY 272 00:08:38.890 --> 00:08:41.130 OF VIEWPOINTS IN THIS 273 00:08:41.130 --> 00:08:41.460 NEIGHBORHOOD ABOUT THE END OF 274 00:08:41.460 --> 00:08:42.430 CHOP. 275 00:08:42.430 --> 00:08:43.500 CAPITOL HILL STILL SHOWS MANY 276 00:08:43.500 --> 00:08:44.430 SIGNS OF THE UNREST. 277 00:08:44.430 --> 00:08:48.440 ONE THEME I HAVE HEARD FROM 278 00:08:48.440 --> 00:08:49.400 PEOPLE TODAY IS THAT CHOP, 279 00:08:49.400 --> 00:08:52.220 WHICH WAS RIGHT DOWN THERE WAS 280 00:08:55.210 --> 00:08:55.680 A GOOD IDEA AT FIRST THAT WENT 281 00:08:55.680 --> 00:08:56.580 DOWN HILL. 282 00:08:56.580 --> 00:08:57.380 TODAY, NEWS DRONE 7 FLEW OVER 283 00:08:57.380 --> 00:08:58.250 WHAT WAS THE CHOP ZONE. 284 00:08:58.250 --> 00:08:59.650 HERE IS HOW IT LOOKS AFTER 285 00:08:59.650 --> 00:09:00.480 SEATTLE POLICE MOVED IN THIS 286 00:09:00.480 --> 00:09:02.220 MORNING TO CLEAR IT OUT. 287 00:09:02.220 --> 00:09:02.550 GREAT TO SEE THE POLICE 288 00:09:02.550 --> 00:09:03.480 BACK. 289 00:09:03.480 --> 00:09:08.020 I CAN'T TELL YOU HOW HAPPY I 290 00:09:08.020 --> 00:09:09.220 AM. 291 00:09:09.220 --> 00:09:09.660 I FEEL LIKE IT IS A NEW 292 00:09:09.660 --> 00:09:10.560 BEGINNING. 293 00:09:10.560 --> 00:09:11.490 Reporter: PEOPLE WHO LIVE 294 00:09:11.490 --> 00:09:14.900 AND WORK IN THIS AREA SAY TOP 295 00:09:14.900 --> 00:09:15.800 HAD BEEN CHANGING. 296 00:09:15.800 --> 00:09:16.900 INITIALLY, IT WAS SUPPOSED 297 00:09:16.900 --> 00:09:17.700 TO BE A PRODUCT OF THE BLACK 298 00:09:17.700 --> 00:09:19.100 LIVES MATTER MOVEMENT. 299 00:09:19.100 --> 00:09:21.940 IT SEEMS LIKE IT HAD DIGRESSED 300 00:09:21.940 --> 00:09:24.270 FROM THAT DRASTICALLY. 301 00:09:24.270 --> 00:09:24.770 THE WHOLE BIBLE HAS BEEN 302 00:09:24.770 --> 00:09:27.880 GOING DOWN. 303 00:09:27.880 --> 00:09:28.310 THE FIRST TWO WEEKS WAS 304 00:09:28.310 --> 00:09:29.240 AMAZING. 305 00:09:29.240 --> 00:09:30.440 THERE WERE PEOPLE VISITING FROM 306 00:09:30.440 --> 00:09:31.410 ALL OVER AND HANGING OUT WITH 307 00:09:31.410 --> 00:09:35.080 THEIR CHILDREN AND THERE WAS 308 00:09:35.080 --> 00:09:35.880 MUSIC PLAYING AND GRADUALLY IT 309 00:09:35.880 --> 00:09:36.850 DECREASED LESS AND LESS. 310 00:09:36.850 --> 00:09:39.490 Reporter: MOST CRITICALLY, 311 00:09:39.490 --> 00:09:40.220 THERE WAS THE GUN VIOLENCE THAT 312 00:09:40.220 --> 00:09:42.100 LEFT TWO PEOPLE DEAD. 313 00:09:45.830 --> 00:09:47.960 IT WAS A TURNING POINT. 314 00:09:47.960 --> 00:09:48.930 Reporter: THIS MAN DROVE A 315 00:09:48.930 --> 00:09:49.500 14-YEAR-OLD GUNSHOT VICTIM TO 316 00:09:49.500 --> 00:09:50.500 THE HOSPITAL. 317 00:09:50.500 --> 00:09:51.500 IT IS GREAT TO SEE THIS IS 318 00:09:51.500 --> 00:09:52.470 GETTING TORN DOWN, BECAUSE SO 319 00:09:52.470 --> 00:09:55.340 MANY PEOPLE WERE GETTING SHOT. 320 00:09:55.340 --> 00:09:56.340 Reporter: THE CHOPS 321 00:09:56.340 --> 00:09:59.740 PERSISTENCE FOR NEARLY A MONTH 322 00:09:59.740 --> 00:10:00.670 PUT SEATTLE IN THE 323 00:10:00.670 --> 00:10:01.610 INTERNATIONAL SPOTLIGHT, MAKING 324 00:10:01.610 --> 00:10:04.410 THINGS TOUGH FOR SOME CAPITOL 325 00:10:04.410 --> 00:10:05.480 HILL BUSINESSES AND RESIDENTS. 326 00:10:05.480 --> 00:10:05.850 THE CITY FINALLY TOOK A 327 00:10:05.850 --> 00:10:06.710 STANCE. 328 00:10:06.710 --> 00:10:07.620 Reporter: THIS ATTORNEY 329 00:10:07.620 --> 00:10:09.720 FILED A CLASS-ACTION FEDERAL 330 00:10:09.720 --> 00:10:10.450 LAWSUIT AGAINST THE CITY 331 00:10:10.450 --> 00:10:11.350 SAYING, INACTION OF CHOP 332 00:10:11.350 --> 00:10:13.520 VIOLATED THE CONSTITUTIONAL 333 00:10:13.520 --> 00:10:15.190 RIGHTS OF PEOPLE WHO LIVE, WORK 334 00:10:15.190 --> 00:10:18.330 OR TRAVEL THROUGH THE AREA. 335 00:10:18.330 --> 00:10:20.330 MY LAWSUIT WAS A REACTION TO 336 00:10:20.330 --> 00:10:21.660 NOTHING BEING DONE. 337 00:10:21.660 --> 00:10:25.670 I DID NOT THINK IT WAS ROCKET 338 00:10:25.670 --> 00:10:26.230 SCIENCE OR A GREAT LEGAL JUMP 339 00:10:26.230 --> 00:10:28.140 TO UNDERSTAND. 340 00:10:28.140 --> 00:10:29.400 WHO THINKS IT IS A GOOD IDEA 341 00:10:29.400 --> 00:10:32.220 FOR ANY PORTION OF ANY AMERICAN 342 00:10:35.380 --> 00:10:36.010 CITY TO BE TAKEN OVER BY ANY 343 00:10:36.010 --> 00:10:37.040 POLITICAL GROUP? 344 00:10:37.040 --> 00:10:37.850 Reporter: HE TELLS ME HE HAS 345 00:10:37.850 --> 00:10:38.310 HEARD FROM 125 POTENTIAL 346 00:10:38.310 --> 00:10:39.250 CLAIMANTS. 347 00:10:39.250 --> 00:10:41.780 HE SAID MOST HAVE SOME RELATION 348 00:10:41.780 --> 00:10:44.290 TO THIS NEIGHBORHOOD. 349 00:10:44.290 --> 00:10:45.320 HE STILL WANTS A FEDERAL JUDGE 350 00:10:45.320 --> 00:10:46.790 TO INTERVENE AND BLOCK THE CITY 351 00:10:46.790 --> 00:10:49.140 FROM TAKING ANY ACTION THAT 352 00:10:54.760 --> 00:10:55.700 WOULD ALLOW ANOTHER TAKEOVER. 353 00:10:55.700 --> 00:10:56.430 LET'S RECOUNT THE TIMELINE 354 00:10:56.430 --> 00:10:59.300 OF THE PROTEST ZONE. 355 00:10:59.300 --> 00:11:00.200 IT STARTED ON JUNE 8 WHEN 356 00:11:00.200 --> 00:11:01.040 SEATTLE POLICE LEFT THE EAST 357 00:11:01.040 --> 00:11:02.100 PRECINCT AFTER NIGHTS OF 358 00:11:02.100 --> 00:11:02.940 PROTESTS ON CAPITOL HILL IN 359 00:11:02.940 --> 00:11:04.270 CLASHES WITH DEMONSTRATORS. 360 00:11:04.270 --> 00:11:06.620 THREE DAYS LATER, POLICE CHIEF 361 00:11:10.280 --> 00:11:11.150 CARMEN BEST SAID LEAVING THE 362 00:11:11.150 --> 00:11:12.210 PRECINCT WAS NOT HER IDEA. 363 00:11:12.210 --> 00:11:14.450 ON THE 15th, THE CHIEF SAID 364 00:11:14.450 --> 00:11:15.350 OFFICERS WOULD NOT GO INTO THE 365 00:11:15.350 --> 00:11:16.250 PROTEST ZONE UNLESS THERE WAS 366 00:11:16.250 --> 00:11:21.190 AN IMMEDIATE THREAT TO LIFE OR 367 00:11:21.190 --> 00:11:21.660 SAFETY. 368 00:11:27.430 --> 00:11:28.360 LORENZO ANDERSON WAS SOUGHT AT 369 00:11:28.360 --> 00:11:29.360 THE CHOP LATE ON THE 20th. 370 00:11:29.360 --> 00:11:30.300 FIREFIGHTERS SAY THE SCENE WAS 371 00:11:30.300 --> 00:11:31.170 TOO DANGEROUS TO ENTER WITHOUT 372 00:11:31.170 --> 00:11:31.930 A POLICE ESCORT AND ANDERSON 373 00:11:31.930 --> 00:11:32.900 DIED AT THE HOSPITAL. 374 00:11:32.900 --> 00:11:33.770 LAWYERS FILED A CLASS-ACTION 375 00:11:33.770 --> 00:11:34.740 LAWSUIT ON THE 24th ACCUSING 376 00:11:34.740 --> 00:11:35.600 THE CITY OF ABANDONING THEIR 377 00:11:35.600 --> 00:11:36.100 RESTAURANTS AND BUSINESSES IN 378 00:11:36.100 --> 00:11:37.040 THAT AREA. 379 00:11:37.040 --> 00:11:37.910 MONDAY, 60-YEAR-OLD WAS SHOT 380 00:11:37.910 --> 00:11:40.040 AND KILLED IN A 14-YEAR-OLD 381 00:11:40.040 --> 00:11:40.470 WOUNDED IN THE ZONE WHEN SHOTS 382 00:11:40.470 --> 00:11:41.410 WERE FIRED.