Seattle police have moved in to break up the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP) after Mayor Jenny Durkan issued an executive order early Wednesday morning declaring the gathering illegal. According ...

A newly unearthed video has revealed what is likely the last known footage of Antonio Mays Jr. speaking at 2020’s Capitol Hill Occupied Protest just days before his death. The discovery comes on the ...

The city of Seattle is being sued over the death of a 16-year-old in the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP) on June 29, 2020, claiming paramedics did not respond quickly enough. Newly rediscovered ...

CHOP sprung up in an area comprising roughly eight square blocks within and surrounding Cal Anderson Park after a weeklong standoff between protesters and Seattle police ended with the department ...

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