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Workers remove items left behind after police cleared the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP) and retook the department's East Precinct in Seattle, Washington, on July 1, 2020. Jason Redmond/AFP via Getty Images
The City of Seattle on Wednesday cleared the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHOP)—set up last month by Black Lives Matter demonstrators, anarchists, and self-described Marxists—as police arrested some remaining protesters on Thursday morning.
The police department wrote that individuals in a crowd of demonstrators were throwing bottles at officers.
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