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Today, Explained

Vox

Daily News, Politics, News

4.49.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2020

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Some are calling six blocks of a Seattle neighborhood the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone. KUOW’s Casey Martin spent a week within its loosely guarded walls. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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keep beginning. Surely by this point, you've met chats.

0:58.0

These people have taken over a vast part, a major part, a very good part, of a place called

1:04.4

Seattle. Seattle's big stuff. That's a major city. And we have a governor who's a stiff,

1:10.4

and we have a mayor who said, oh, this is going to be a love fest. And by the way,

1:15.6

these are violent people that are taking over. Fox News can't get enough of chats.

1:20.5

Our vigilantes are now setting up checkpoints into and out of the so-called autonomous zone,

1:26.9

buildings inside the zone are getting vandalized, business owners, there are reports that they're

1:31.9

being extorted, fights are breaking out, people are being assaulted, and an entire police precinct,

1:37.5

totally abandoned and taken over by the anarchist, six blocks of pure anarchism.

1:42.5

And even worse, chats is becoming a total tourist attraction. But it's confusing because

1:48.4

you've got the president and his buddy Hannity saying it's violent and dangerous while a buddy of

1:52.8

mine in Seattle went this weekend. He said it was a straight up farmer's market threat level

1:58.5

out there. We here at today explained, oh, it's you listener, to find out what exactly is going on

2:05.0

inside the chat. So we reached out to Casey Martin, who's been spending a ton of time there for KUOW

2:10.4

Public Radio in Seattle. As you approach this area, the first thing you notice is you can hear it.

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