The Rise and Fall of the Seattle CHOP

[@TheOxygenCommittee]

Brings much needed clarity when national coverage of this was convoluted and sensationalist at best. I was waiting for a comprehensive document of this and am grateful that you were there to capture it.

[@elveheim]

Can you make a podcast about the situation in Mozanbik?

[@JohnSmith-yl9en]

Except extremely limited from the occupied resident´s point of view. Edit: nonexistent xD

[@Jim.Simpson]

This is not clarity. This is not what actually happened. There were no "right wing" attacks. The only violence committed was by the far left toward anyone that would not comply. The entire movement is about compliance. Anyone in CHAZ who didn't comply was dragged to an interrogation tent. Also the Proud Boys aren't even white people by in large.

[@Jim.Simpson]

@@justinbailey5467 agreed

[@mario53680]

@@Jim.Simpson this, the "chaz security force" shot 2 unarmed black kids in their car and it never made media headlines. Gee I wonder why

[@thereenactor6665]

*holding a Ruger 22* “We bout to get some tactical shotguns and shit at Walmart” Bruhhh

[@ncrtrooper1782]

Omw to Walmart to arm the proletariat

[@jerryulrich2637]

10/22 will put a hole in you just like a 223. It may be a varmint round but I wouldn't want it flying at me.

[@hallupnorth1082]

@@jerryulrich2637 i would much rather be shot with .22 than ANY other round

[@jerryulrich2637]

@@hallupnorth1082 The goal should be to not get shot by any round

[@theangrycheeto]

@@hallupnorth1082 Ever heard of the kolibri?

[@shorisunagawa382]

Popular Front is what Vice News wanted to be

[@maxgeopolitics1439]

its run by Jake Hanrahan, who is a former Vice conflict reporter!

[@shorisunagawa382]

@@maxgeopolitics1439 I know, still Popular Front > most of Vice News

[@johnmarston2616]

maxgeopolitics that explains the leftist slant

[@felipedaiber2991]

@@johnmarston2616 popular front is unapologetically and very clearly leftist as a project In fact a popular front is a term used to refer to the strategic union betwen left leaning military groups usually betwen anarchists and comunists

[@Ronor]

@@felipedaiber2991 Nah United front is the term for an alliance between (revolutionnary) socialists (so anarchists, communists, syndicalists ...), Popular front is an alliance betwen leftist of all kind (so maybe an alliance betwen anarchist, communist, the DSA and the Democrat party)

[@kevin15776]

This is what happens when disorganized, highly misinformed, and emotional people get a taste of power. Chaos.

[@megugu2155]

What do you expect. These people were the highschool losers that wanted an easy access to power to finally get what they want instead of working hard for it. The ones that no one talked with because they were nobodies that didnt do anything for themselves. They dont know how to get power and nor do they know how to handle it.

[@royalalchemist6939]

@@megugu2155 what about people that was given power? Either through business or born into it. They didn't work for it it was merely a perk.

[@f3vats]

@@megugu2155 these are not the highschool losers these are the uneducated idiots who radicalised through ideologies they only know by name and it's nourished by the american culture of be confident even if you are wrong.

[@ci6516]

@@f3vats it’s an echo chamber dude , this is what happens when you speak to people that agree with you

[@Klyce]

Really couldn't have said that better.

[@eatadickyoutu]

"We can police ourselves!!" *CHOP security then shot and killed 3 unarmed black teens*

[@JustAJok3r]

In America that good police work right?

[@nelsonkitsuse7736]

what the fuck do you think police do?

[@usmcpound]

@@nelsonkitsuse7736 How many police interactions are there with citizens each year? Probably close to 70 million. How many people are killed by police each year? About 1,000. What's that come out to now? 0.000014% of police encounters result in a death. Keep up with your shit propaganda.

[@The_Real_Frisbee]

@@nelsonkitsuse7736 So it's OK when CHOP does it, but it's not OK when police do it? Do black lives matter, or do they only matter when police or white people kill them?

[@OnionZest]

@@The_Real_Frisbee they didn't say that but alright.

[@BareSphereMass]

They kinda missed the part where protesters showed up at the mayors house. That's what caused CHAZ / CHOP to go from a "summer of love" to "violent protests" according to our mayor.

[@TheSiprianus]

@Enormous Dixahalv "according to our mayor"

[@MattIsBored322]

so youre telling me, that the people in charge are totally fine with it right up until they are directly affected by it? thats insane, maybe we should use that piece of knowledge in the future

[@mikehunt6160]

@@TheSiprianus According to anyone with eyeballs

[@mikehunt6160]

@@MattIsBored322 Go back to reddit little boy.

[@boogaloo_weed]

really? I thought it was when they murdered two black kids

[@GreatistheWorld]

Journalism is supposed to be the first draft of history, and Popular Front is the first reporting I’ve really felt that from

[@lucabrasi7999]

And it's supposed to be objective, leaving all the bad and gringe from the protesters is not.

[@DanaAst]

@@lucabrasi7999 If it's unfiltered and objective journalism, then why didn't they release the full clip of George Floyd? It has been released before the release of this "journalism"

[@lucabrasi7999]

@@DanaAst read my post again, take a breath, and think, do you need to ask me about other journalists.

[@lucabrasi7999]

@Caltrop Sure, I agree fully. And I'm all about focusing equally on different sides of this situtation. Because, if this kind of protesting goes unchecked without critique, there is lot more crap that can happen.

[@nanaa9074]

Ngl seems rlly biased

[@MyRamblingRose86]

Residents were NOT "let through hassle free" I lived there. I had guns pointed at me trying to get into my apartment. It was a nightmare

[@neighborhoodthreat9672]

Lol

[@SpaceMarine500]

@@neighborhoodthreat9672 What's funny?

[@eudaemxnia2481]

>strongly oppose emergency services' presence in C.H.O.P. >Someone gets shot to death >emergency services react. Arrival is delayed >they wait, then move the victim >emergency services arrive where victim is supposed to be >insult emergency services Did they really?

[@dirka_dirka_mohammedalijihad]

Typical lefty gaslighting. They set the ems for failure then accuse them of being incompetent.

[@TheDarkIllumination]

Hey, a guns a gun at the end of the day. These are radical leftists were talking about. To them a 22lr is heavy firepower.

[@theshanghaimilkman]

Homeboy was carrying a desert eagle, lmao.

[@user-ns1cl8ir9l]

Better than a toy AK at 14:00

[@Maxacurtis]

​@Bonetopick121 hey, I was the field producer for this and conducted that interview, he told me that was specifically his intention for carrying it.

[@Maxacurtis]

hey, I was the field producer for this and conducted that interview, he told me it was to put shots into the engine block of a car if another car attack was attempted

[@excitableboy7031]

@@Maxacurtis based

[@GreatistheWorld]

Max Curtis cool. I remember being surprised seeing a picture of that dude just because the DE’s a damn expensive gun

[@MC-dn8if]

Things that never happened in chaz: - White supremacist attacks - Food grown - Autonomy Things that did happen: - Gang murders - Rapes - Assaults - Burglaries - Theft It wasn’t the carnage that ended the chaz, it was one of the mayor’s political opponents leading a march to her home.

[@chebby111]

Missed all the racial segregation or "positive discrimination" that the Chazinese introduced

[@tijmen1557]

ikr he didnt go over the "black only" zones

[@joaquingonzalez834]

so the very thing they were fighting for wasn't what they wanted?

[@synopsis7156]

chazinese💀😭

[@JackHoffmanRN]

in prisons people naturally segregate.

[@John-un3lj]

"CHOP SECURITY" LMFAO

[@jimjamauto]

Just “cops” with a different name, less accountability, and no training

[@Asdf-wf6en]

fun fact: in Seattle it is illegal to conceal a weapon over 6 ft. in length.

[@OnionZest]

Good to know, when I bring my cannon to Seattle I will get a baby carrier

[@trollingisasport]

That's why I walk around with no pants on

[@caboosemd123]

Lmao

[@Evergreen1400]

“It’s been peaceful for 2 days” 😂

[@deagle2yadome696]

lol

[@pabunko]

Wow, this is better than I was expecting. I live next to the precinct, so I was inside CHOP 24/7 and I followed everything very closely. There is a lot of footage in this video that I have never seen before. It seems that you provided a fairly accurate depiction of what actually occurred without pandering to one side. Thanks for the work.

[@Dr.Dokman]

Same. Live on Broadway. This dude did a good job.

[@kyleevans681]

They forgot to bring up the “protesters” that regularly extorted businesses for money for protection. If the businesses didn’t pay up then they would get robbed and looted.

[@xtreealex]

@@kyleevans681 That is something the Seattle police initially claimed, but they later admitted that this wasn't true with the Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best even admitting "We haven't had any formal reports of this occurring." eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/06/12/seattle-protest-chaz-capitol-hill-autonomous-zone-police-free/3173968001/

[@dyn0spectrum]

@@xtreealexAn overall abysmal failure where people were slaughtered by larpers with rifles. You're nuts if you think there wasn't extortion, rape and other crimes going down BESIDES the homicides lol

[@JustTooChill]

@Daniel James mind telling me where rape victim should come forward to if not the police ? www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/everybody-down-what-happened-at-the-chop-shooting-that-killed-a-teenager-and-led-to-the-areas-shutdown/ my sides lmao

[@Apontheon]

lol the segregated garden

[@sinisterthoughts2896]

The irony is palpable.

[@OnionZest]

Good intentions, but without guidance weird shit happens.

[@spencerhopkinson9874]

@@OnionZest good intentions mean nothing, these idiots deserve to be mocked for the rest of humanity’s existence, and thanks to the internet they will be. It’s delicious to think of

[@miningthesilverlining4947]

@@spencerhopkinson9874 i understand why resentment is felt. and yet I can’t even start to explain how disappointed I feel, when I see someone wishing vengeance in the name of justice. While being blind to the fact vengeance in the name of Justice will only bring more vengeance, triggering a endless cycle of hated. For we’re already in that cycle. and nobody sees, that creating hate to protect that Witch you love actually makes you become that which you were seeking to destroy. And the only way for there to be peace, is to stop fighting. This philosophy holds strong in the collective physical world. and the individual spiritual one. Don’t let your self be dragged down with feelings of revenge, judgment or any kind of resentment for the actions of lost souls. Forgive them for they know not what they do . free you self from petty corals. For when the mind. and soul are free of resentment they are open to more happiness. And is this not what we all seek.?

[@spencerhopkinson9874]

@@miningthesilverlining4947 TLDR we're going to keep mocking these idiots lololol

[@mellojack6295]

“At the end of the day this is changing the world” I’m sorry if it’s just me but I have literally just heard about chop 😂

[@Butter_Warrior99]

It will be forgotten. For the better, it was a waste of time a resources.

[@sirspectre3485]

Oh dude it's lore runs deep like Chris Chan deep

[@jacobsuckit4214]

Wow...So this is who the Soviets called useful idiots?

[@mr.talldarkandhandsome4111]

I remember watching Narcos where Pablo Escobar enlisted the help of the Marxist guerillas only for him to kill them in the end. Knew how to use those idiots for his purposes.

[@deagle2yadome696]

yes

[@carlosroman8947]

Way more informative than twitter holy shit so much misinformation was spread

[@sinisterthoughts2896]

If you trust this guy I guess. Seriously though, who gets their news from twitter?

[@carlosroman8947]

@@sinisterthoughts2896 young people

[@nomad2495]

He failed to mention the reported rape extortion of business and the supposed hit put out on one of chops own.

[@thelurkingpanda3605]

i mean the video has a clear bias

[@AE_AnarchistAlexcianEmpire69Bi]

@@thelurkingpanda3605 Twitter Has A Bias Lol

[@alansmith888]

This is exactly what I imagined the world would be like in an apocalyptic event.

[@miningthesilverlining4947]

It’s literally the purge. but the people are pretending there the ones in the right. and the others are the violent ones

[@cryptidwatch490]

@@miningthesilverlining4947 yeah this is why I personally think that some sort of military action should have been taken. People were hurt and I believe a few even died because of this zone

[@miningthesilverlining4947]

@@cryptidwatch490 at a certain point there’s noting that can be done for a limb with an infected wound. it needs to be amputated on. and left behind.

[@balleybarrera144]

​@@cryptidwatch490 not 100% sure but I believe 40 died lot of them were children.

[@KoniTheChiwa]

@@balleybarrera144 Bullshit propaganda you spreading

[@DaReelSlimN80]

"More black people were shot at chop than by police in 2 weeks" hey swaglord, who shot them?

[@cryptidwatch490]

Most likely criminals who saw the zone as an area where they could do whatever they wanted because there were no cops

[@deagle2yadome696]

they were shot by chop security and people within the zone

[@grass49]

White supremacist groups perpetrated those shootings

[@navrhy3075]

When LARPing goes bad.

[@threefreaksonecup6628]

How is this larping when they actually did it? Right wingers are too pussy to pull something like this

[@sinisterthoughts2896]

@@threefreaksonecup6628 good job, get political on the internet. Now that you've pulled politics into it whats next? Making a moral high ground stand? Or using only the lens of your own beliefs to discredit people who dissagree with you? Just remember, everybody considering eachother 'right-wing nuts' and 'libtards' is how we can come together and reach resolution. Winning the day one politically charged attack at a time.

[@eltiggy7031]

praxis imo

[@navrhy3075]

@@threefreaksonecup6628 It is LARP-ing. Their “medics” didn’t and couldn’t do shit because they were had no experience or knowledge; the “security forces” failed to identify a threat from someone who wasn’t and ended up clapping 3 innocent people; their gardeners and farmers couldn’t grow anything in their little makeshift garden; and their “revolution” accomplished nothing. In other words they live action role played.I’m not a right winger but last time they tried something like this they at least lasted a little longer than these guys Lmao. But in the end they also accomplished nothing. Who would’ve thought, that both extremes are bad. Well judging by your very intellectual comment you knew that already, right?

[@oyeahimfunny]

@@threefreaksonecup6628 shit those right wingers smoked your 3 leftist pedophiles in Kenosha and yet your armed “antifa”couldn’t aim for a shot 😂😂💀💀💀

[@gavingrimsley2616]

Mfer's AK looks like it was made by Minecraft

[@popsscapepopscollar6403]

Prolly some century arms hand grenade that they call an AK

[@TUXbeatDOWN]

The magazine looked like a 10rd XD but I just saw in the comments above that it was a 22LR which I guess could hold more in that small ass thing.

[@Orkk187]

CHAZ had the highest murder rate in the world per capita. All committed by their self appointed police officers LOL LOL LOL LOL

[@natemichael9655]

Lol, most ironic of all, almost all the victims were "BI-POC minorities".

[@hunterkirtzinger5616]

“We can police ourselves” says the man who can in no way at all police himself

[@Kraken9911]

They never understood the privilege they even had to put on this joke for weeks. There are other governments that would have machine gunned this level of insurrection. The cops and national guard handled this with the kid gloves on comparatively.

[@BPOOP1000]

Bunch of LARPERs lol

[@ynage11-w6d]

Interesting if not filmed from one perspective. Very little Mention of the daily violence that went on here at night. Seems to imply all violence was because of the right which is demonstrably false.

[@il2705]

100%

[@atamv7254]

Yeah, this is an apologetic piece of shit. It basicly says its all because of the FASCISM and WHUTSUPHREMAZY and PRUHDBOYS. Real trash documentary that gets its "legitimacy" from being on ground more than many others. Being on ground does not make all u say right.

[@threefreaksonecup6628]

Why are you believing what you see on mainstream media?

[@sinisterthoughts2896]

@@threefreaksonecup6628 the original comment implies the commenter lives in the chop/chaz area. You are making an assumption, unless you know this person and are familiar with their sources.

[@dm6044]

Based YPG flag 9:02 biji Rojavaye Kurdistan

[@felipedaiber2991]

@Firstname Lastname Soviet Russia recived thousands of tons of US material on WWII what is your point?

[@dm6044]

@Firstname Lastname Stay mad

[@dm6044]

@Firstname Lastname Spoken like a true supporter of the Syrian regime. Murderer of hundreds of thousands of civillians. Either that or you're a Turkey/FSA apologist who support ethnic cleansing and murder of civillians. Lmao

[@excitableboy7031]

Represent!

[@danielbaker4358]

I'm with the YPG, I was there and I can be seen in this video treating the young men who were shot that survived. Many of us were there to observe the American revolutionaries. I was deeply moved by what I saw.

[@frocco7125]

We need sources and links to all the sick music.

[@TheSkeetskeet6969]

Damn so chop security murdered a 16 yr old black kid?

[@max4750]

People protesting police violence kill one and almost kill another black kid. Great job CHOP

[@p1ermonkey]

Yeah it's a pretty shit situation. It was the tragic culmination of long night of intimidation from outside groups and a case of mistaken identity. Over the course of the night a silver/grey SUV without plates had been seen in and around capitol hill. About 5 - 10 minutes before the murder, that SUV barreled across Cal Anderson park (not really mentioned in the video, but this just outside the "official" CHOP boundaries and where a large houseless encampment had setup) shooting out the windows. There is still some confusion about if this was meant to kill people or just scare them since it was late and no one got any good video of it happening. Depending on who you ask, the shooters were either shooting into tents or into the air. Someone who said they were shooting into the air claimed to have called the police, who refused to come because there wasn't proof this was a "mass casualty event" (stated to be one of the only reasons they would respond to CHOP). This information was relayed to Security on 12th Avenue (where the shooting of the teenagers happened), but as "Silver SUV shooting into tents. Cops not coming". In the stream overlooking the road you can hear yelling as people try to get the description of the car to all the street blockades. Suddenly there are screams a pointing South as they see a silver SUV barreling towards them. The rest of the story is foggy since the people who were actually at that barricade haven't really talked about it to anyone. From what I can gather, the car blew through the warning sign on that side of the road, someone shot out the tires causing the car to swerve and crash into a barricade, and then someone shot. I'm not sure how many people actually know who pulled the trigger and shot those kids. I woke up to the news and walked to CHOP to see what I learn. All I found were people distraught with what happened. Some blamed armed private security who had been hired by businesses to protect their property. Others blamed the city for trying to force open that lane for traffic and setting the stage for the tragedy that eventually transpired. And many blamed themselves for weakening their protections to the point that fear of an attack led to someone killing an innocent child. Sorry for writing so much. It was a fucked up situation and I just wanted to share the details I learned from asking around.

[@p1ermonkey]

@Bambamrubble I am not defending that person did. I just wanted to provide the context that surrounded the whole tragedy since it was missing from the video

[@johnmarston2616]

If a marxist does it then it’s self defense but if a white dude in a car does it then he’s an ultra-nationalist fascist Proud Boy.

[@felipedaiber2991]

White supremacists killed six people outside the areabvhbbrfv and then a car entered shooting, it was a fuck up but it was more way more complex than that

[@Dr.Dokman]

How the hell did you get aerial footage from King county Sheriff?

[@timclemans7440]

Probably a public records request

[@azerty1933]

You'd be surprised to see what you can get by simply asking

[@Warhamer116]

You can request records from sheriff as long as it is for journalism. The reason they don't have it public automatically is that they have to manually censor the footage so it won't compromise privacy of the people recorded (for instance so that the police camera footage of a traffic stop won't show the stopped person's social security information when requested to identify), which means the footage is delivered on demand rather than being automatically uploaded to a site.

[@friedrichvonsnatch3501]

To me those is what vice was at its peak. Mostly unbiased journalism with brilliant coverage of many of the facets of the problem at hand

[@kevin15776]

This not unbiased

[@alvarorubenvera5915]

This video is far from unbiased.

[@sirkl4272]

There is no such thing as non-bias in journalism. Bias is fine, as long as it's acknowledged AND that it doesn't interfere with the truth e.g. covering up, distorting, or lying about the parts of a story that don't align with, or benefit your cause.

[@ThorsMjollnir0341]

Largely peaceful as the scene shows a row of parked cars burning and looters running from buildings.

[@TayyarePilotuOfficial]

They just playing a game and try making their s*itty lives a bit more actioness

[@chebby111]

"Fascist threats" bruuuuhhh

[@albionpatterns3986]

My eyes rolled too with that one, lol

[@A_B_1917]

Spotted the right-winger. Yes, there are fascists threats in USA. There are literal neo-nazi groups and there had been multiple alt-right terrorist attack.

[@dixiecel]

@@A_B_1917 what groups?

[@dixiecel]

@@A_B_1917 also when?

[@A_B_1917]

@@dixiecel 2019 El Paso shooting for example. As for Neo-Nazis, this has a list, tho not all of them are still there: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_neo-Nazi_organizations#North_America

[@proto6086]

Guys, please, take a journalist to Belarus

[@Max-is4qu]

Doubt the belarusian authorities will allow that

[@noahsherwood2445]

They have people on the ground there

[@proto6086]

@@noahsherwood2445 nice

[@proto6086]

The belarussian allies of Rev Dia (Rev Bel) are teaching rioting methods to protesters

[@tommycscat]

Not yet, they STILL risk imprisonment

[@vortexhunterbarker6071]

The security made by chaz were more violent then police

[@Silver-hg8iz]

Not really

[@VoxelMusic]

@@Silver-hg8iz They actually were. After the police left the murder rate increased over 700% higher than Venezuela, the previous holder for highest murder rate.

[@valyentinesuite34]

Voxel Music holy shit dumbest comment on KZbin right here . God damn right wingers XD

[@martinn.6082]

@@valyentinesuite34 nah bro, it was worse than Stalingrad. 10000 people died every night.

[@sinisterthoughts2896]

@@Silver-hg8iz according to the documentary chaz security did the last shooting. And I actually watched a different documentary where the security got confused and beat up the journalists thinking they were spies.

[@eagleone5456]

How many people were out there with bb guns or .22 cal rifles? Lol absolutely laughable

[@Lantern_Light]

.22 cal is no joke. Doesn't need to punch through Kevlar. Just needs to be enough for whatever your pointing at.

[@lackytaffy3399]

@@Lantern_Light all 22 does is poke a hole.

[@domskapupil6941]

@@lackytaffy3399 then tears your insides up

[@loonewoof9074]

.22LR can cause internal bleeding causing a slow and painfull death.

[@eagleone5456]

I'm well aware of the lethality of a .22 but would you want to go to war with one? The guy in the truck with an AK on his lap is talking hard with a spring powered bb gun.

[@mikerope5785]

it really rams home the unfortunate fact, that pure anarchy always fails and bullies will thrive in any system policed or not. the difference is police provide an established route to justice without hearsay or innuendo, which is sorely lacking in an unpoliced system.

[@shlorbin473]

Oh yeah, police work real fine. Not like there's an entire series of protest because of a police officers negligent murder and in turn, the state not enforcing justice ONTO that police officer, literally the police union and corrupt individuals alike also breaking his million bond in a month. Is that 'justice?' Police (and in turn the state) will forever be a corrupt force until there is no such concept of hierarchical power that can be abused in the first place, and everyone's needs are equally and adequately taken care of so some people aren't 'forced' into doing atrocious actions on behalf of the state. But the police cannot act without the state, and there will forever be individuals seeking to abuse power. So why create a system that not only harbors them, but incentivizes that to 'get to the top?'

[@sinisterthoughts2896]

@@shlorbin473 you apparently didn't read the original comment, they said bullying is present with or without police.

[@shlorbin473]

@@sinisterthoughts2896 No, my point was that they said policing provides an established route to justice, but it does not. If anyone up that chain of command is the least bit corrupt, it crumbles apart. They tried to say 'well, pure anarchy always fails' and didn't take the time to criticize a state using a police force.

[@sinisterthoughts2896]

@@shlorbin473 Agreed, they said pure anarchy always fails. And your problem is they didn't also explain your point? They actually said even corrupt authorities give some uniformity, where roving mobs of empowered idiots are wholey unpredictable. Not that I am advocating for it, but many societies have functioned with corrupt policing forces, honestly all of them. Is it a drain on the society, yes. But it is sustainable, versus mobs patrolling for someone to pick on is not sustainable, predictable or functional. I believe that was the OPs point. Again, not defending corruption, I just think rhe OP considered it is a given that corrupt cops are bad, and was only talking about the counter point, i.e. anarchy.

[@shlorbin473]

@@sinisterthoughts2896 i think the actual problem here is that OP is apart of the group that still think 'pure' anarchy, where there is quite literally no route afterwards, is something people are arguing for day in and out, and not established routes of varying freedom and decentralization. seeing any opposition to policing as the total, complete opposite. and yes, there are corrupt states with policing included that 'work', but generally, at what cost? that cost usually causes instability and will require the state to quite literally dismantle itself somewhat to gain trust back from the citizens targeted. if the heads of the state choose not to, the fall of that nation is inevitable, regardless of how long it takes. we're seeing this happen in real time, whatever state you're in not controlling the pandemic adequately, not giving aide to its citizens, and then protests/riots. or ultra-authoritarian takeovers.

[@opossumbandit4960]

Can we just take a minute to recognize that they set up a garden, covering a part of the field in top soil and planting already grown plants in it 😂😂😂

[@opossumbandit4960]

Thats just now how this works

[@eaminyashed7799]

Biology is a white cis tool of the patriarchy used to oppress black and brown bodies. The masters tools cannot be used to dismantle the masters murderous house of oppression. This was a beautiful garden with a safe space reserved for oppressed people to share their ancient traditional knowledge of growing food.

[@opossumbandit4960]

@@eaminyashed7799 I can't tell if your being serious or joking 😂😂

[@eaminyashed7799]

Patriot Rick I don’t know if that makes this more funny or just sad. I don’t have to change much if anything of their core messages to mock them. Check out the hoax papers to see the current state of their literary cannon.

[@jungsa4691]

Lol the delusion... Guy wearing ski mask, holding a gun, says he offers peace, aid, and descalation... As he escalates from 'peaceful' to firearms...

[@shadowraven1153]

25:00 so youre not going to mention how chaz security gloated about killing the kids and how they wouldve kept shooting but they ran out of ammo?

[@AngryCheekBuster88-jg6fr]

The sad part of this whole thing is it costed tax payers money to clean up this shit hole.

[@evanhenderson9461]

So much was unreported and didn't get spread on Twitter to most of us. Though y'all glossed over that last shooting, that seemed like a genuine fuck up by some chop security that destroyed their reputation. Overall though I loved this doc. Great insight. Such amazing footage. Amazing work overall.

[@p1ermonkey]

Yeah that was terrible situation. It was the tragic culmination of long night of intimidation from outside groups and a case of mistaken identity. Over the course of the night a silver/grey SUV without plates had been seen in and around capitol hill. About 5 - 10 minutes before the murder, that SUV barreled across Cal Anderson park (not really mentioned in the video, but this just outside the "official" CHOP boundaries and where a large houseless encampment had setup. Just beyond the gardens mentioned) shooting out the windows. There is still some confusion about if this was meant to kill people or just scare them since it was late and no one got any good video of it happening. Depending on who you ask, the shooters were either shooting into tents or into the air. Someone who said they were shooting into the air claimed to have called the police, who refused to come because there wasn't proof this was a "mass casualty event" (stated to be one of the only reasons they would respond to CHOP). This information was relayed to Security on 12th Avenue (where the shooting of the teenagers happened), but as "Silver SUV shooting into tents. Cops not coming". In the stream overlooking the road you can hear yelling as people try to get the description of the car to all the street blockades. Suddenly there are screams a pointing South as they see a silver SUV barreling towards them. The rest of the story is foggy since the people who were actually at that barricade haven't really talked about it to anyone. From what I can gather, the car blew through the warning sign on that side of the road, someone shot out the tires causing the car to swerve and crash into a barricade, and then someone shot. I'm not sure how many people actually know who pulled the trigger and shot those kids. I woke up to the news and walked to CHOP to see what I learn. All I found were people distraught with what happened. Some blamed armed private security who had been hired by businesses to protect their property. Others blamed the city for trying to force open that lane for traffic and setting the stage for the tragedy that eventually transpired. And many blamed themselves for weakening their protections to the point that fear of an attack led to someone killing an innocent child. Sorry for writing so much. It was a fucked up situation and I just wanted to share the details I learned from asking around.

[@friendship6668]

Well I mean if there was no clear footage and nothing but hearsay, they are just reporting the facts man.

[@juugin]

Who produced 1:17 ? Beat is mental

[@CautiousKieran]

Also want to know this. Had me freestylin insteada watchin.

[@MariaRamos-yh1jj]

@illdrumatik on YT

[@Kleiner9Partizane]

Chop Security shooting 2 Black Teenagers that stole a Car.

[@stellar_queer]

One of the major arguments I heard against chaz/chop was that shootings took place, all the media coverage I found of it was really vague and made it seem like it was just someone who wanted to shoot people. I never knew that it was people who were just against the movement as a whole trying to kill people.

[@Based228]

i honestly didn't either. i never knew that there were previous attacks, and while the 2 kids that were shot was a tragedy, i can see why it happened a little better now.

[@stellar_queer]

@@Based228 yeah, its chop was kind of a mess sadly. I would love to see something like that happen and actually go off well in the us

[@andrewyork3869]

I question that, what you have to remember is on multiable of those situations the shooter would be less then 12ft 15ft at most it is very hard to miss at that point. Judging by the lack of trigger discipline and over all lack firearms competentce while not shown in this video shown in many others I would love to know how many of these people shot them selves....

[@BabyDoIIx]

It wasn’t. This film is incredibly slanted. It in fact ended up BEING the idiots attacking each other while drunk and high. I live in Seattle & unfortunately had to hear about this everyday. It was a disaster, & *this film also conveniently leaves out the most important issue.. regular people live in this area, & people were afraid to leave their own homes, many were broken into, people weren’t allowed to drive their car home & were being stopped & questioned by these absolute criminal idiots. Funny how that was all left out… but it would kinda hurt the bias of this video so…*

[@lumenvitae4215]

All I see is endless narcissism and people saying look at me look at me I'm such a victim!

[@Puttagirlon]

If everything else is lost to the sands of time, may we all at least remember the LARP Garden.

[@TUXbeatDOWN]

XD

[@krabkrusttv2930]

Holy fuck, why am I only finding this channel now. Completely independent news focusing on the real issues that the mainstream news either undercovers, misconstrues, or completely ignores. The fact that this channel doesn't get more fanfare by the KZbin algorithm is a travesty.

[@alvarorubenvera5915]

Independent doesn't mean unbiased.

[@degamispoudegamis]

@@alvarorubenvera5915 no one asked

[@kimjongun505]

why do americans like larping so much

[@TheInfekt]

Why are North Koreans starving to death ?

[@Mr_Sneebly]

@@TheInfekt cause they have no food lmao

[@kevinmitchell6429]

Heard Jake on Ari’s podcast and love & appreciate everything you all do. Keep up good work

[@clobberbusters]

Same, this shit is blowing my mind

[@LunchBXcrue]

Total unbiased I see.... haha

[@boonoo5954]

"use that money to fund communities affected by alleged racist policing." seems pretty unbiased to me.

[@michaelheim1149]

A reasonably good video in that it didn't completely slant one way or the other. Really would have liked to seen a few other things before I would call it a good "documentary": 1. Interviews with some residents and business owners in and around the CHOP that could give a different perspective. Should have been easy and would have given a wider view. 2. More time spent on the "fall" of CHOP other than the shootings. The way the video presents the situation, the CHOP was going strong until the violence ramped up. As a person who lived a block away from a CHOP entrance, it was easy to see that the population peaked after about the first week, but by the time it was cleared out, roughly (my estimate) 75% of the people had already left. I walked through it at least once per day, and it was very noticeable that the number of tents was dropping literally every day around the gardens. Some of this was likely due to violence, but it was impossible to deny that there was escalating infighting within the CHOP.

[@kyleevans681]

They also should’ve got testimony from all the women that allegedly got raped and the businesses that got extorted

[@jhelmut2624]

Good points.

[@sinisterthoughts2896]

What you hilighted is the opposite of balanced.

[@plaguex1]

This had me in tears. Each side is fighting essentially for the same thing. We're all being set against each other by the state and elites. Damn this system.

[@pissfather6798]

Yup thats how they keep the working class from ever changing anything

[@plaguex1]

@@pissfather6798 do you think we'll, as a society, ever snap out of this stuper?

[@pissfather6798]

@@plaguex1 well i feel like awareness of the issue is growing atleast among younger people but these structures have been in place for a very long time and it will require a lot of people to realize that, especially under capitalism only the 1% profits from all of this and forces us to step over eachother to survive. Maybe we already accelerated too far but who knows

[@plaguex1]

@@pissfather6798 I agree also. I'm a millennial and I find myself aware of the problems capitalism has caused but also find myself nearly equally attached to it as it is all I know.

[@degamispoudegamis]

@Paul Revere1776 there are no distinctions in capitalism. There is one capitalism and it's eating us all up. If you and guys like you cared about anything else other than semantics, you'd be taking up arms against the current system and trying to change it to what you think would be a better one (in your case "free market capitalism" as opposed to "corporatism"). But y'all never do it because deep down you don't want the system that benefits you to change. You try to legitimize it by saying that there are more humane forms of it, but more and more people are coming to grips with the fact that that's a lie. The free market is what caused chattel slavery, imperialism, colonialism, monopolization and exploitation of workers. The profit motive is behind all of this. This is a system that has existed for centuries now and you try to deny and falsify history.

[@Gryle]

This is a great documentary of the protesters but some interviews with residents of the CHOP/CHAZ (not those who moved in later as part of the protests) would have really rounded this out and given a fuller picture of the situation.

[@troyvincent8933]

Rioters**

[@justonemori]

If I lived or worked there you couldn't pay me enough to go on camera. These psychos would retaliate.

[@Skaatje]

An accurate depiction of what Twitter would look like if it were a country.

[@Komodo1312]

American political extremism is always extremely cringy.

[@freesoup8241]

Definitely can be. Why do you think that is?

[@Komodo1312]

@@freesoup8241 Not really sure. French black block anarchists scare me. German neonazis scare me. But their American counterparts just seem so... LARP like and toothless. Maybe it's because the status quo is being so heavily guarded by the political class and their capitalist friends that is seems silly to go up against it. In Europe it seems more likely for a political ideology to sweep to power (kinda like we've seen with right-wing populists the last two decades).

[@freesoup8241]

@@Komodo1312 yeah. It's deflating to say the least.

[@drifter402]

Because it's all done to be trendy. Mainstream media and propaganda created this. I have not heard a single one of these "activists" mention Police Unions or quotas once. Not one time throughout this entire event. Yet I've heard more marketing slogans than you can shake a stick at

[@excitableboy7031]

Yep, autists vs autists. Political murders are still a thing in my parts sadly. And commies sometimes blow up cops and shit. Fun times.

[@armchairradical2665]

I just found you guys and wow I'm so glad I did. I didn't know anything of the capitol hill free zone, it was conveniently barely reported on in the national news. Also, I love how you are covering far-left groups and their goals. Keep up the awesome work!!

[@VoxelMusic]

I wonder why you only see the response from the police and not what provoked them.

[@kyleevans681]

To me this documentary was biased. They left out a lot of other thing that regularly happed in the zone (rape, extortion, some fights). They blame all the problems that there was on the cops and “white nationalist”.

[@bradmurray1736]

I live in the rural Midwest A lot of these issues are foreign to me. there's some inherent anger and discontentment towards the urban and the coasts. this was a fantastic documentary cleared the air

[@aregularperson7573]

Welcome to the club brother

[@joaobottazzini9111]

Very good documentary. Great job but could be better if it was filmed with other perspectives. Very little mention of the daily violence that went on there at night.

[@kevin15776]

This piece seems to side with the CHOP protesters.

[@OnionZest]

@@kevin15776 I think because the Anti-chop people don't record themselves.

[@deagle2yadome696]

@@OnionZest what

[@21168djr]

"It pays a lot just to smile" That man's words truly encapsulate what it feels like to be alive in America rn. Really good video. Keep up the good work Popular Front.

[@shner6742]

a black telling me he can police himself is not very covincing

[@scienceandmatter8739]

What about the kids that got shot there from own community. In Dream this would be Eden in Realität only Gangs using this for more evil trafdic

[@kevinnines6924]

Hey popular front please never take this down from youtube. I was involved in the CHOP and I want to show this video to my grandkids in the future. This documentary is perfection.

[@caboosemd123]

Did you guys accomplish anything besides destroying part of your city?

[@alepepperoni2563]

@@caboosemd123 lmao

[@gungnir4076]

​@@caboosemd123'we made a completely illogical garden and killed some kids! It was great! '

[@darrengrainger8663]

Download it

[@eagleone5456]

A lot of talk of supposed white supremacy, and racism. The issue is cop supremacy.

[@Arzon527]

8:35 Ruger Charger .22lr pistol. A gun is a gun, but that ain't no Draco AK

[@TUXbeatDOWN]

I was laughing the whole time when they showed him holding that. Yes a gun is gun... But that thing just looked like a piece of shit lol XD. Ill stick with my 55.6...

[@dnashofficial]

i'm sorry, what pandemic?

[@VoxelMusic]

Dont want police, you dont get police.

[@kyleevans681]

I doesn’t take a genius to know that no police = higher crime. Eventually it will happen and gangs will start to take over

[@flednanders7556]

Cops fail to respond proportionately to infractions, many of which shouldn't be illegal, frequently placing them in the role of murderer. People dislike being murdered. Sorry.

[@VoxelMusic]

I suppose the solution to police brutality (that is rarer than you think), is to completely shutdown the police force in a large area, only to employ infinitely more violent individuals to police the streets instead.

[@flednanders7556]

I never said these people had chosen the correct means to their ends, just that they had legitimate ends. The solution to police brutality is highly sought after, as demonstrated by these people, regardless of what exactly it is.

[@VoxelMusic]

Police brutality is something everyone agrees should be stopped. Some people hold riots and take over parts of certain states. Some people make laws against it. One of these solutions actually works and isnt just an excuse to burn, loot and murder.

[@jffry890]

You left out Raz Simone becoming the warlord of the zone and arming kids with ARs. You left out that security literally executed those guys in the white truck, and I quote, "Oh, your ass ain't dead yet? *pop*". You left out the insurrectionists moving to the mayor's house which is what killed her vocal support of the occupation. You left out a lot of really fucking heinous shit that these people, especially "security", have committed including rape, murder, and armed robbery. You make this out to be unbiased but you're lying through redaction and not telling the full story to make the insurrectionists more sympathetic than they have any right to be.

[@amadiohastruck4331]

The f00l is bias as phuck.

[@Truestoned0]

@@amadiohastruck4331 agreed

[@darnellbrown5695]

SAFESPACE WHAT A JOKE DIDN'T THEY ACTUALLY KILL ONE OF THERE OWN? YEA THEY DID

[@ElHolyBoy]

"Residents were allowed through hassle free." Uuuh, no. Not what I experienced.

[@liamsweeney4754]

Out of curiosity, what was your experience?

[@Dr.Dokman]

I strolled in and out fine while walking my dog morning and night from Broadway. Nobody bothered me.

[@outboardgull5285]

you a resident? or a right winger? lol

[@ElHolyBoy]

@@liamsweeney4754 a "security" officer, little more than a guy in his bike outfit, charged me while yelling, from the barrier wall while I took a photo of the public street at the "entrance" near the fire station. His handler, a female lead, yelled at him to stop and said "let's talk about when that's appropriate!" I've lived here since 1990, I'm a "BIPOC" immigrant refugee, I marched with these people but hey no pictures. All I'm saying is it wasn't just cotton candy and rainbows.

[@ElHolyBoy]

@@Dr.Dokman good. That's how it should be.

[@sam.fridayyy]

any chop type zone will never work

[@thrownswordpommel7393]

There was a huge "chop-type zone" in Ukraine during the civil war 1918-1921.

[@Drewboooo]

17:11 “Oppressed” by the patriarchy, white supremacy and capitalism... while being a Hispanic woman protesting freely in a predominantly white country, wearing an adidas jumpsuit and Nike’s. Makes sense.

[@SavesomeBtchs]

In 2024 it’s a wasteland filled with needles drug and homelessness

[@darkrieshunter6670]

lol so nothing change

[@kyloken151]

This is what happens when everybody is a winner.

[@TroyJScott]

That 22LR was really scary….😉

[@darnellbrown5695]

Yea it was 😂

[@Gundam-bruh]

8:40 oof, this debate didn’t age well..

[@WhatsTherapy]

Great video, thanks for sharing and for your work.

[@friendship6668]

Been waiting for this. Clear and succinct.

[@tomsmyth5138]

The funny thing is nothings going to change.

[@nanaa9074]

Its kynda scary how someone did achieve something we just dont know it yet

[@Lucas-om4do]

"A zone of peace"🤣🤣🤣

[@Hillers62]

MY ASS!!!!!!!!!

[@utopianstructures8434]

This is probably the best on ground documentary on CHAZ

[@TheRedStarman]

Took me halfway through this documentary to realize that this video is going to appear one sided, because generally speaking, everyone at CHAZ/CHOP has a similar point of view to begin with, and so they’re going to have a generally positive opinion of CHAZ/CHOP and the actions that took place within it. I’m sure if PF existed back in 2014 and they went to the Bundy Ranch standoffs, everyone there would have conservative/libertarian viewpoints and so that hypothetical documentary would appear one-sided. PF isn’t out to make documentaries that have the privilege of hindsight, they’re making documentaries about the now. If for example PF goes to Belarus to document the protests (stay safe if you do), don’t expect a “balanced” coverage. It will be PF interviewing the protestors, because they’re the people doing things. What we’re seeing is reporting, and it feels weird because we haven’t seen it in fuckin forever. Everything else is “journalism”, and journalism has been dead, at least for me, when someone told the world that Saddam had WMDs.

[@jtnachos16]

The problem with that assumption, is that the documentary is factually one-sided, because efforts weren't made to cover the views and actions of those who opposed the CHAZ/CHOP through anything but the lens of 'from CHAZ/CHOP point of view'. It over-focused on trying to portray CHAZ/CHOP 'protestors' as being 'reasonable' until a 'right-wing' action caused them to not be. It pushes a certain narrative while trying to 'look' objective. This is obvious from the first few minutes, where they use terms like 'mostly peaceful' and 'abuse' when referring to police breaking up protests. The moment a single individual at a protest gets violent, that protest is no longer peaceful. Officers at protests tend to be outnumbered 5-1 which makes it BEYOND dangerous for them to deal with those who cross the lines individually. Hence the deployment of tear gas and other items to push back the other protestors and clear space so that the police can safely approach and arrest the actual troublemakers. Of all those clips they have at the beginning, of supposed police abuse, I see a total of 1 situation that is iffy. That's the one of a 'protestor' on the ground getting railed in the face with punches. That's not an accepted procedure or use of force, to be mounted and swinging like that. The whole 'woman hit in chest with CS grenade'? Those are fired from a launcher. Those launchers are not particularly accurate, especially when the user does not have daily practice with the device to learn instinctual ranging.

[@outboardgull5285]

@@jtnachos16 Just say you like licking boots dude, its okay and gets the point across faster than those three paragraphs

[@jtnachos16]

@@outboardgull5285 Yes, because immediately going to personal insults toward those who don't blindly agree with you is totally indicative of a remotely valid and educated position.

[@michaelheim1149]

Your point is fair, but has a flaw. If this video was put out while CHOP was still active (as in the Belarus example), then you obviously are going to get a slant that reflects that fact. However, this was put out six weeks later, meaning there was at least some time after the fall to get some extra perspectives.

[@yarus5889]

@@jtnachos16 I'll give u my view from a portlander, those chop/antifa types burna nd loot, and pull over people in vehicles with their rifles. Thugs. Thats it.

[@yodasl4yz347]

Well this aged nicely 😂😂😂

[@michaelwinward5176]

Good stuff, thanks for keeping it clear and clean. Much love

[@lexmen1089]

"I LOVE THE UNITED STATES" *Holds a AK-47*

[@chulainn32]

This is 10/10 once again Popular Front. Fantastic journalism.

[@chulainn32]

@Doctor Faustus where was the biased? They didn't have any opinion commentary on the situation there? A behind the scenes look. I've no dog in this fight - the left and right are two red slapped cheeks of the same boring stretch marked arse. Always find it ironic though that a lot of the right accuse everyone else that isn't them as being 'snowflakes' when they are the biggest flakes of them all. They are the first to cry 'my free speech', 'fake news', 'biased', 'libtard' etc etc when someone doesn't agree with their narrative. Leave this type of program to the adults and stick you with Breitbart or whatever other one sided pish you use as your echo chambered news source these days. Now please kindly fuck off. I'm going to enjoy my day and leave fighting over statues and a reality show ex president to the rest of you arseholes. Shaaaamone X

[@Raziaar]

Really wish some was covered about the police just trashing the belongings of people living in the CHOP, and people working for the city were stealing stuff owned by people from the CHOP. Total disregard.

[@Bipolar.Baddie]

In Louisville we were occupying Jefferson Square Park across from Town Hall. On a day of a large protest, a paranoid schizophrenic who had be arrested two times THAT MONTH, somehow got a gun, and shot and killed someone at the protest. The fact a severely mentally ill homeless man got a gun is very sus, but the fact that he was regularly arrested and never helped shows how the "justice" system is more focused on punishment than actually keeping people safe.

[@jestemgei3152]

@@Bipolar.Baddie so you want to police be better by taking money from them? You stupid.

[@shovelhead1705]

It's crazy how nowadays being called a nationalist is like a profanity.

[@kobi399]

This video leaves out so manny of the jucy things that happened in chaz. Like the fact that there where more black people killed by chaz in two weeks than the rest of the year by police. How chaz polize executed people on camera, al the rapings and murders, al the eleged right wing attack where in fact their own people, what about the gestapo interrogation tents, what about how buisnesses who stil wanted to operate had to pay "taxes" to chaz, how all maner of weaponry was ceased by chaz, civilians who lived there had to carry their pasports or they get thrown into interrogation camps, what abou the emergency services could not get to the guys who where shot because they where blocked by their own protesters what about the child that was murdered by caz police, did i mention the silver car where everyone was gunned down in because it was stolen was actually the wrong car and they killed a innocent guy, why do they want to defund the police but carry bodyarmour and rifles, etc, etc, tec. And thars just the stuff i could think of of the top of my head while heaving dinner

[@Based228]

sources on literally any of this? i know the shooting happened but i'd put money on them never executing anyone, "rapes and murders" being called in by ppl who were against it, dont even know what the fuck an interrogation tent is, know for a fact they let businesses freely work, and saying that ppl who want to defund the police shouldn't arm and protect themselves against the police is a braindead take. but if u can prove any of this to me i'd be delighted to see it.

[@OkDannnn]

Great documenting once again, PF

[@megusta9045]

What a $hi+hole, too many confused individuals and a few taking advantage of the chaos and division.

[@85Bad4ever]

Changing a world,i doubt,rest of world never heard about this

[@alkeryn1700]

it isn't talked about but some english speaker know about it

[@ferghalicious1480]

16:00 Come on man how is anyone supposed to take you seriously when you’re wearing sunglasses that protect your third eye? 😂

[@MitchyD1000]

As someone who was born and raised in the Seattle area, and currently lives not too far from Cal Anderson Park. Their was a ton of one sided reporting that this was a warzone/upstart revolution or it was a some slam poetry art "block party" like our mayor said, this video makes fits the latter. Honestly the place was basically fine during the day(still would have fucking sucked to have lived within a 5 block radius of the place), the place became basically the temporary home base for all homeless is Seattle so some petty crime and shit followed obviously. At night time is when it went to shit there was pretty much like one night that didn't go horribally wrong. Proud boys or whatever didn't even need to do anything cause the security and John Brown gun club larpers were so fucking stupid and shitty at providing a sliver of fucking security. I know people who associate with the club or are in it idk how it works cause it's dumb af but they are all loosers and would be the last person you would want to put in a situation like this. Overall this entire stunt was stupid as fuck and I'm glad it's gone, this city is still going to shit regardless but at least we're not pory

[@MitchyD1000]

*Portland

[@MitchyD1000]

Also these people are only a few blocks away from the headquarters of the largest and of the most exploitative companies in the world go fuck with that not a regular neighborhood where people live and work and want peace and quiet

[@outboardgull5285]

lol

[@dancingbanana2595]

This independent KZbin journalism is soooo much better than any of the shit on tv advertised as ‘journalism’ trying to hold on to their dwindling audiences