Police are investigating a homicide inside the Seattle autonomous zone. The shooting Saturday morning left one person dead and another hospitalized with life-threatening injuries. …
Police are investigating a homicide inside the Seattle autonomous zone. The shooting Saturday morning left one person dead and another hospitalized with life-threatening injuries.
Elsewhere, a mural of George Floyd in Salt Lake City was vandalized as San Francisco considers the future of statues and park art after protesters tore down statues.
On Saturday, President Donald Trump’s rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma hosted a smaller-than-usual crowd, with empty seats in the 19,000-capacity BOK Center.
Trump’s campaign canceled planned outdoor speeches before his rally. Campaign spokesperson Tim Murtaugh said the cancelation was because of protests outside. But journalists on the ground refuted seeing large numbers of individuals turned away due to protesters.
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Seattle Police are investigating a fatal shooting that happened early Saturday morning inside the city’s Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP) zone.
Formerly known as CHAZ, or Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, it is an area that stretches several city blocks and has been cordoned off by protesters where artists paint murals, speakers discuss topics of racial equity and snacks are handed out for free.
A 19-year-old man died at a hospital after being treated for the shooting, and another is „being treated for life-threatening injuries,“ police said in a statement.
Police said they responded to a call about shots fired at 2:30 a.m. Saturday morning. Officers „attempted to locate a shooting victim but were met by a violent crowd that prevented officers safe access to the victims,“ police said.
They added that the suspect or suspects fled and are at large, with no description available.
A mural in Salt Lake City depicting the face of George Floyd was vandalized Saturday nigh, according to ABC4.
Floyd was a 46-year-old Black man who died in Minneapolis after former police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck for more than eight minutes while Floyd was in custody. His death sparked nationwide protests against police brutality and systemic racism.
ABC4 reported that there was no word of who damaged the mural and that people have been trying to clean it up Sunday.
A local photographer, Chris Kensington, shared an image of the defaced mural on Facebook, and said that it was tar and not paint that was used.
San Francisco Mayor London Breed asked for public art to be reviewed after protesters vandalized and tore down statues in Golden Gate Park.
Breed decried the vandalism, saying „the damage done… went far beyond“ the removal of the statues.
„Every dollar we spend cleaning up this vandalism takes funding away from actually supporting our community, including our African-American community,“ Breed said in a statement, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. „I say this not to defend any particular statue or what it represents, but to recognize that when people take action in the name of my community, they should actually involve us. And when they vandalize our public parks, that’s their agenda, not ours.“
The statues targeted included those of Ulysses Grant, the 18th U. S. President; Francis Scott Key, who wrote the U. S. national anthem “Star Spangled Banner”; and Junipero Serra, an 18th century Roman Catholic priest.
