A federal judge rejected a lawsuit by the Seattle mother of a 19-year-old man gunned down in an autonomous "no-cop" protest zone dubbed CHOP/CHAZ in the summer of 2020, arguing the city is not ...

The family of a man with special needs who was fatally shot in Seattle’s CHOP autonomous zone has filed a new lawsuit against the city and Mayor Jenny Durkan just days after a judge dismissed a ...

SEATTLE — The family of a teenager shot and killed in the CHOP/CHAZ zone of Capitol Hill two years ago filed notice of a lawsuit and claim for damages on Monday. Antonio Mays Jr., 16, was the second ...

In the early hours of June 29, 2020, in a popular downtown neighborhood of Seattle, an African-American 16-year-old named Antonio Mays, Jr. was publicly lynched in one of the most well-documented ...

[The following story is from our sister news org, The Stranger, about CHAZ—the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, which is a six block area that was deserted by police after days of rancorous protest.

Protesters occupying a portion of Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood have given it a new name, KIRO-TV is reporting. A welcome sign now reads CHOP, which stands for "Capitol Hill Occupied Protest." ...

In 2020, the area was ruled by a heavily armed rapper and became a hotbed of violent crime.