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THIRD Shooting In CHOP Sends Seattle Authorities Scrambling, Even As Mayor Says She’s Ready To ‘Wind Down’ Protest

Emily Zanotti
THIRD Shooting In CHOP Sends Seattle Authorities Scrambling, Even As Mayor Says She’s Ready To ‘Wind Down’ Protest
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Seattle’s Fire Department responded to a third shooting in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood late Tuesday, transporting two victims who engaged in gun violence on the edges of the CHOP “autonomous zone.”

The Capitol Hill Occupied (or “Ongoing”) Protest, or CHOP, is likely in its final stages as Seattle city officials determine how and when to break up the demonstration, which took over six blocks of the city’s Capitol Hill neighborhood more than two weeks ago.

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