SEATTLE — Seattle’s Cal Anderson Park has officially reopened after a six-month closure that was sporadically enforced and after the removal of an encampment from the park last week, the
Seattle s Cal Anderson Park reopens after months of being illegally occupied
Cal Anderson Park in Seattle s Capitol Hill neighborhood closed in June and became the center of protests in the zone known as CHOP. Author: KING 5 Staff Updated: 12:40 PM PST December 23, 2020
SEATTLE Months after becoming the center of protests and closing to the public, Cal Anderson Park in Seattle s Capitol Hill neighborhood reopened on Wednesday.
“Cal Anderson Park has been an epicenter for activism and social justice movements for decades and is the heart of the Capitol Hill community. As we move into 2021, Cal Anderson will continue to be a hub for the entire community neighbors and park visitors alike,” a prepared statement from Mayor Jenny Durkan read. “As we reopen the park, the community and the city will continue its ongoing conversation to provide services to those who are unhoused, create new ongoing activities to support diverse community needs,
Local religious leaders credit Black Lives Matter for progress while acknowledging much work remains.
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Arrius Graves dances with a Black Lives Matter flag while marching in South Lake Union on Nov. 3, 2020. (Dorothy Edwards/Crosscut)
Black religious leaders in Seattle haven’t always agreed with the direction of this year’s Black Lives Matter movement, but the two branches of this activist spectrum are showing signs of coming together at the end of an unprecedented year of protests and human suffering.
This past summer, some religious leaders stood in defense of former Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best, as others called for her resignation in response to her handling of protests against police brutality after the killing of George Floyd.
Antifa Erects “Big, Beautiful Border Wall” Around Their Latest Seattle ‘Autonomous Zone’
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Seattle s Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone is back, apparently, after what was previously referred to as CHOP drove headlines this summer after police belatedly moved to dismantle large portions of it. It has managed to survive, in it s current form emerging recently at Cal Anderson Park as more of a homeless shelter occupying a public park.
But the central irony no doubt missed by those advocating it as some kind of model far-Left utopia is that this week the encampment has
erected a large border wall after the city announced authorities plan on clearing the area.
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In the early hours of Dec. 18, heavily armed officers of the Seattle Police Department carried out a “sweep” of a homeless camp in Cal Anderson Park in the Capitol Hill neighborhood.
Liberation News witnessed several brutal arrests of people on 11th Ave. just outside the park, in which numerous cops dogpiled onto arrestees, placing their knees on peoples’ backs.
This sweep took place within the context of the global COVID-19 pandemic and in contradiction of public health guidelines against sweeping encampments. Heavily mllitarized vehicles paraded through the neighborhood followed by bike cops riding in formation. At least 21 people were arrested. Over several days, resistance on several fronts by houseless campers and community members delayed, but could not stop this sweep, which activists charge was highly political in nature.