My terrifying five-day stay inside Seattle’s cop-free CHAZ

New York Post ^ | 6/20/2020 | Andy Ngo

[Beave Meister]

SEATTLE — On June 8, Seattle police frantically loaded what they could from the east precinct onto trucks and cars. Within hours, they boarded up and abandoned the station. That night, left-wing protesters from Black Lives Matter and Antifa declared ownership of the six-block neighborhood in the middle of the Pacific Northwest’s largest city. They named their new territory the “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone,” or CHAZ. No laws or rules applied here except for one: “No cops allowed.”

During five undercover days and nights in the zone, I witnessed a continuing experiment in anarchy, chaos and brute-force criminality. In order to avoid being exposed as a journalist — several reporters have been barred or expelled — I slept and showered outside the zone. (Those inside have no showers but they do have portable bathrooms.) I took meals, and most of my water breaks, elsewhere because I was reluctant to remove my mask and risk being recognized. Every day I entered the zone twice through its semi-porous borders — once in the early afternoon, and again after sundown, staying until the wee hours.

Crime has surged inside and outside the zone.

On Saturday morning, a shooting erupted that left at least one person dead and another injured near a border checkpoint. Police were reportedly met with resistance when they tried to get to the victims, who apparently were then taken in private cars to the hospital. Cops made it into the zone to gather shell casings and evidence, some reports said, as police in riot gear stood at the border.

On Thursday, police arrested Robert James after he left the CHAZ. He is accused of sexually assaulting a deaf woman who was lured inside a tent. The same day, former city council candidate Isaiah Willoughby...

[Richard Kimball]

Who or what is an "Andy Ngo?"

Probably one of the few actual journalists working today. He's an independent journalist, and has been physically attacked several times while covering violent riots. The most notable one was when the anarchists started mixing concrete into milk shakes. He was struck in the head with one and got his skull fractured.

His twitter feed is here: https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo

All the arm chair quarterbacks on this thread who know better than him about how to cover these riots should step right up and show him how it's done.

[jeffersondem]

“Regular people need to arm up and take out every single terrorist socialist thug and thuggett in the place to restore law and order quickly.”

There are no “regular people” there.

[cgbg]

That 30,000 number is crazy high.

Much of the area is commercial, plus there is a park within the six blocks.

The high rises are not that high.

If I had to guess, I would say 5,000 residents. The majority of them have fled to live with family or friends.

[wbarmy]

Tyler or Palestine Texas.

Down home, brother. I was raise in Pittsburg, TX and did all my skating and swimming in Big Sandy, back in the 60's, early 70's.

Even back then, there were more guns then people and a whole lot of Vietnam vets who you did not want to cross.

I am pretty sure you would not want to cross with us IRQ/AFG vets either!

[jonrick46]

You have nailed it. This is a Kool Aid moment awaiting to happen. It is all a matter of time. When these postmodernists begin to hate their situation they have created, they will intensify the blame game until a suicidal frenzy occurs. It is human nature, exploited by a Death Cult (death to America).

[lapsus calami]

 

 

Will the last person to leave Seattle please turn out the lights.

 

Bring the flag - the American flag.

 

 

[jonrick46]

Yes it was Andy Ngo who was the journalist they invented the concrete milkshake they threw on him as they attacked him so violently it sent him to the emergency room. He is a hero and a patriot.

[lapsus calami]

 

 

Left to their own devices it should devolve to Lord of the Flies on steroids. They will factionalize, tensions will mount and those with poor impulse control will ratchet it up to open warfare.

 

 

[jonrick46]

This is just one example of the graffiti all over everything at the occupation. After they are gone, how are they going to clean off this crap? Has anyone thought about the cleaning bill? Has anyone made the association between this outright savage behavior and the ideology that manifests it? Has this collectivism wiped the minds of critical thought?

One last thought: These savages messed up on the correct spelling. It should be "Free Cap Hell!"

[Publius]

You take the people who tagged the wall and make them clean it up — with a toothbrush.

[jonrick46]

If I went in with a disguise, I would have tinted my skin black and wore a big afro wig. If anyone discovered my effort, I would refer them to the book, Black Like Me, and told them, I was trying to walk in the shoes of the Blacks.

[jonrick46]

I hope they degenerate into the cockroaches they are. Then send out sterile female cockroaches.

[bray]

He is also a homosexual Asian who these racists hate.

[Syncro]

“Probably one of the few actual journalists working today”

Yep, small list.

Lara Logan, on twitter but mostly hid behind a pay wall at Fox Nation.

Laura Loomer, excellent reporter, so good she is banned from twitter.

I follow Andy and Lara Logan on twitter.

[bitt]

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[little jeremiah]

” Cops made it into the zone to gather shell casings and evidence, some reports said, as police in riot gear stood at the border.”

Shameful that they didn’t go inside. Utterly shameful.

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What is shameful is that the governor and she-mayor are allowing the insurrection. The insurrectionists and their supporters hate cops and want the entire justice system abolished. Let them have their wish in their own little fantasyland.

[Salvation]

Brave man!