I'm Aisha Roscoe, and this is the Sunday story from Up First.

Our story today starts in the summer of 2020.

Remember, that's when protests were happening all over the country after the killing of George Floyd.

But in Seattle, something happened that didn't really happen anywhere else in the U.S.

A standoff with protesters went on for days, and then the police actually abandoned a precinct

in the middle of the city and the Capitol Hill neighborhood.

They just left.

And once they were gone, protesters set up an Occupy-style camp around it.

The camp was called CHOP, the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest.

It was an experiment in a different kind of world, with its own medical teams and its own armed

security. People there believed they were building a better version of society,

one that rejected police violence. But three weeks in, that experiment ended. There was a shooting

at the camp and the gunfire came from the people who were actually trying to defend the camp. A black teenager died.

Six years later, the case remains unsolved. In a new eight-part series from NPR's embedded,

reporters Will James and Sidney Brownstone take us inside Chop to find out what happened the night of the shooting and how

violence came to occupy this anti-violence occupation.

Today, we're bringing you the first episode in the series, and new episodes will be released

weekly over the coming months in the embedded podcast.

One more thing before we start. This episode

includes explicit language and the sound of gun violence. Okay? Here's Sydney and Will.

I remember the shooting happened on a Monday morning, a few blocks from where I used to live in a neighborhood called

Capitol Hill. An editor called and asked if I could go down and report from the scene.

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