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[[File:Occupied-seattle-1.jpg|left|350px|thumb|[[Marxist]] insurrectionists set up check points and border walls in Occupied Seattle. Citizens and taxpayers were [[extortion|extorted]] and forced to pay protection money. Inslee claimed to know nothing about it.]]
[[File:Occupied-seattle-1.jpg|left|350px|thumb|[[Marxist]] insurrectionists set up check points and border walls in Occupied Seattle. Citizens and taxpayers were [[extortion|extorted]] and forced to pay protection money. Inslee claimed to know nothing about it.]]
:{{See also|2020 Antifa riots|CHAZ}}
:{{See also|2020 Antifa riots|CHAZ}}
For nearly a month, starting in June 2020, the City of Seattle permitted [[anarchist]]s and [[activist]]s to seize six square blocks of the city’s Capitol Hill neighborhood, naming their new enclave the “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone” (CHAZ) and then the “Capitol Hill Occupied Protest” (CHOP). [[Law enforcement]] and fire fighters were precluded from entering the territory. The Seattle Police Department was ordered to abandon their precinct within the CHOP. Person-related crime in the CHOP increased 525% from the same period of time in the same area the year before, including by Mayor [[Jenny Durkan]]’s own count “two additional homicides, 6 additional robberies, and 16 additional aggravated assaults (to include 2 additional non-fatal shootings).” The CHOP was allowed to stand for nearly a month, during which time two teenagers were shot and killed in the zone. The Seattle City Council, Mayor [[Jenny Durkan]], and Washington Governor Jay Inslee publicly rejected [[federal]] involvement in law enforcement activities within the city of Seattle.<ref>https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-identifies-new-york-city-portland-and-seattle-jurisdictions-permitting</ref>
Forty-eights hours after [[Marxist]] insurgents occupied a 7 square block area including a [[police]] station, extorting protection money from businesses and employers to allow them to continue operating, Inslee claimed he was unaware of the situation and the first he heard of it was when asked at a press conference.<ref>https://thefederalist.com/2020/06/11/jay-inslee-had-no-idea-anarchists-had-taken-over-his-states-largest-city/</ref>
Forty-eights hours after [[Marxist]] insurgents occupied a 7 square block area including a [[police]] station, extorting protection money from businesses and employers to allow them to continue operating, Inslee claimed he was unaware of the situation and the first he heard of it was when asked at a press conference.<ref>https://thefederalist.com/2020/06/11/jay-inslee-had-no-idea-anarchists-had-taken-over-his-states-largest-city/</ref>