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Seattle police chief says no part of city is 'cop-free' after business owner complains they didn't respond to dozen-plus 911 calls
Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best says there are no "cop-free" zones in the city and despite the perception, denies anarchy has overtaken the Emerald City.
Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best says there are no "cop-free" zones in the city and despite the perception, denies anarchy has overtaken the Emerald City.
“There is no cop-free zone in the city of Seattle,” Best said. “I think that the picture has been painted in many areas that shows the city is under siege. That is not the case.”
Best was referring to the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP), previously called the Capital Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ), a six-block area near downtown Seattle where police abandoned a precinct amid escalating tensions with George Floyd protesters. The embattled top cop insisted there are no cop-free zones even after a local business owner said he called 911 more than a dozen times when protesters vandalized his business and police never showed up.
John McDermott, who owns an auto shop just outside of the CHOP, told KIRO-TV protesters broke into his shop and he detained a suspect who stole money from his cash register and tried to set fire to the building. He said he called the police a total of 19 times to no avail.
McDermott said he finally had to give into other protesters’ demands to let the suspect go to avoid “mayhem beyond mayhem," adding that both his son and some of the protesters were armed but no shots were fired.
Best said officers responded to the report and "observed the location from a distance." Click here for more on our top story.
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