SEATTLE, Wash. – President Trump calls it a take-over by domestic terrorists while Seattle’s Mayor says it’s a gathering at a neighborhood where free speech and protests are a tradition.
But we asked people in the so-called Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, or CHAZ, what they think is going on.
One black Seattle resident KGMI spoke to isn’t impressed, saying “the cause has been lost. This isn’t anything about Black Lives Matter, this isn’t anything about defunding the police. This is about people coming somewhere to get the f*** out of the house and to walk around.”
But Capitol Hill resident Darrell King, who goes by the Natural Truth, says he hopes people don’t lose sight of the goal of racial justice.
King told KGMI there’s “a lot of music going on, a lot of food going on. A lot of different things going on-distractions. But in those distractions I just hope they continue to remember there is a message and point we are trying to make, you know? I can’t control what everybody’s doing. That’s what I guess this is more a part of. We are a free country, this is a free America, so why don’t you let us be like that. You own every block in Seattle, Washington. Let us have this little piece of land, give us this little block.”
He says the movement is about fairness in education, the economy and all aspects of life for black Americans.
No one in the zone could say how long the stand-off with Seattle authorities might last.
