By GENE JOHNSON
Associated Press
SEATTLE (AP) â A year after racial justice and anti-police demonstrators took over part of Seattle s Capitol Hill neighborhood, there are lines outside the restaurants in and around the former protest zone.
Pickup soccer games and dog owners playing fetch dominate a park formerly occupied by a tent encampment. Corn, kale and zucchini flourish in a community garden dug by the protesters, next to the letters âBLMâ fashioned from lengths of hose.
But issues crystallized by the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest â policing, equity, disorder and homelessness â are animating Seattleâs Tuesday mayoral primary, a contest that highlights a political divide between activist-left voters and more moderate progressives.
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