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Twitch streamer claims he was threatened and grabbed inside Seattle’s CHOP

By Mica Soellner
Published June 19, 2020 2:11pm ET
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Twitch streamer claims he was threatened and grabbed inside Seattle’s CHOP
New cement and wood barricades bear the name CHOP, Tuesday, June 16, 2020, inside what has been named the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest zone in Seattle. The city put the barriers in place Tuesday in hopes of defining an area where emergency, delivery, and other vehicles can travel through the area while still preserving space for protesters, who have been there since police pulled back from near the department's East Precinct after recent clashes with people protesting the death of George Floyd.

A man who had been streaming the events surrounding Seattle’s protest-led autonomous zone known as CHOP was threatened by someone living within the camp after he was seen filming tents.

Video shows Shawn Whiting, a local video game designer, being confronted by a man who said he lives in the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest which occupies the city’s Cal Anderson Park.

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