Man Charged With Setting Fire to Seattle Police Precinct During ‘CHOP’ Protest

Man Charged With Setting Fire to Seattle Police Precinct During ‘CHOP’ Protest
A man sits outside of the Seattle Police Department's vacated East Precinct in the area known as the Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP) in Seattle on June 26, 2020. David Ryder/Getty Images
Zachary Stieber
Updated:

A man set fire to the Seattle police building that officers abandoned just before occupiers turned the area into a so-called autonomous zone, according to a new federal court filing.

Surveillance video from around 3 a.m. on June 12 showed a man, later identified as 35-year-old Isaiah Thomas Willoughby, carrying a red container believed to be full of gasoline and dumping the contents onto a pile of debris lying next to the Seattle Police Department’s East Precinct.

Zachary Stieber
Zachary Stieber
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Zachary Stieber is a senior reporter for The Epoch Times based in Maryland. He covers U.S. and world news. Contact Zachary at [email protected]
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