A longtime 12th Ave small business that ended up playing an outsized role in the summer’s Capitol Hill occupied protest zone is closing shop and leaving the neighborhood — a move that will be viewed through the prism of months of protests but that has been in the works for years as par...
The protest camp has created a memorial for the 16-year-old on 12th Ave (Image: CHS) TheKing County Medical Examinerhas identified the 16-year-old shot and killed in a vehicle at the Capitol Hill protest zone early Monday morning asAntonio Mays, Jr.. ...
Fact check: Trump’s claim that protesters ‘took over a big percentage’ of Seattle Trump falsely claimed during the presidential debate Tuesday that protesters took over a big portion Seattle during the Capitol Hill Organized Protest in 2020. ...
“Last year we had really effective tactics, allowing those who wanted to protest legally to exercise their first amendment rights,” he says, “and those who were destroying property or threatening individuals to be arrested.” People who live in Capitol Hill are hoping the protests will stay ...
At the SPD’s East Precinct on Capitol Hill, where protesters have occupied the area, a mural on one boarded-up surface of the precinct depicts Charleena Lyles, a pregnant Black woman, who waskilledby Seattle police three years ago. Avigilfor Lyles drew hundreds of people to Magnuson Park...
Schmidt says a protest is planned at the capitol Wednesday afternoon by those trying to urge lawmakers to pass the bill that would give law enforcement more ability to pursue suspects. Rep. Schmidt says the speaker has until 5:00 p.m. Wednesday to bring the bill to the floor for a ...
He recalled the resolve of protesters after the first major standoff on Capitol Hill June 1, when protesters tear-gassed a largely peaceful crowd near the East Precinct. “They got tear-gassed, they got pepper sprayed the first day — they came back,” he said. “They got tear-gassed,...
Bergman’s Lock and Keyand the former home of theScratch Deli. The auto shop which became a center of private security activity during the Capitol Hill occupied protest,is relocating to Shoreline. The project set to replace it had started the design review process in November 2019, well ...
“We’re a lot more open than we were two years ago,” said Cronauer. “I think that Capitol Hill, for all the trauma it endured during the last two years, it was one of the quickest ones [neighborhoods] to bounce back.” Others apparently agree.The Puget Sound Business Journal reports...
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