“Quietly, almost exactly three years after the neighborhood was first taken over and renamed CHAZ (Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone), the ice cream shop owner Molly Moon Neitzel filed a lawsuit against the city. She wanted to be really clear that she still supports the police-free utopia. But also the city needs to pay her for having abolished the police in the police-free utopia. ‘This lawsuit does not seek to undermine [CHAZ] participants’ message or present a counter message,’ her lawyers write. ‘Rather, this lawsuit is about Plaintiff’s constitutional and other legal rights of which were overrun by the City of Seattle’s decision to abandon and close off an entire city neighborhood, leaving it unchecked by the police.’” – Nellie Bowles
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