Six-block area with no police draws threat from Trump, while residents call it ‘a picture of what a new way of living could be’

Black Lives Matter protesters negotiated with local officials here Friday over their terms for leaving a six block area that they have controlled for most of the week without a police presence. The occupation of what has become known as the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, also known as ‘CHAZ,’ began when Mayor Jenny Durkan on Monday ordered police to abandon the East Precinct station, which had been the site of almost daily confrontations between officers and people protesting the killing of a black man, George Floyd, by a white Minneapolis policeman on May 25.

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