Protests

June 24th | City council weighs cuts to the police budget

Coronavirus has left gaping shortfalls in municipal budgets – is defunding police one way to close them? How the cops are often shielded from prosecution, and how the school year went for you.

Here's what I've learned feeding protesters in Seattle

Jimaine Miller, A.K.A. the Def Chef, has been cooking a lot lately. That’s his job, but for weeks he’s also been cooking for protesters who march for racial equality and he's been cooking for people in the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest zone, known as the CHOP. He cooks with hundreds of pounds of donated food, and gives it away for free. And it's changed him in ways he didn't expect.

How Pride and Protest go together

The pride is mostly online this year, but still vibrant and aligned

The evolution of CHOP

Some say the area has been gentrified; others say that if police come back, they're not leaving without a fight.

June 23rd | Dining in is returning to restaurants near you

But would you go? King County Executive Dow Constantine, and a look at the future of Capitol Hill’s occupied protest zone.

In its final days, CHOP tries to create safety without becoming the police

This week, Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan announced the CHOP will end, and police will return to the East Precinct building at its center. But in the meantime, occupants of the Capitol Hill Organized Protest zone are trying to show they can keep their community safe without police.

June 22nd | Does the city council have the last word on tear gas?

Why police officers aren’t quite ready to strike a deal. Shootings in the protest zone, and their aftermath. How to abolish the police. The ethics of vaccine trials. And echoes of the Civil Rights Movement on the streets of Seattle again.

Crime

Second shooting at night contrasts with Seattle's CHOP by day

Gunfire on Seattle’s Capitol Hill left a 17-year-old youth wounded Sunday night -- the second shooting over the weekend in or near CHOP, the area that’s been a focus of protests over racial injustice.

Politics

Seattle Now: Why does the President keep talking about us?

We’re months away from a presidential election, there's a pandemic, the economy is historically bad and there are protests for police reform happening around the country. But in the midst of it all, President Trump has Seattle on his mind.

Race & Identity

A safe space for Black people to center on healing and joy on Juneteenth

Blackout CHOP creates a place to rest, grieve, celebrate, and not hold space for others