Trump told to back off Seattle’s Chaz police-free zone

News Desk

Authorities in the north-western state of Washington have hit back as president Trump threatened to take back a police-free district controlled by protesters in Seattle. Governor Jay Inslee said Trump should stay out of the state’s business.

Trump argued that the area had been overtaken by domestic terrorists. It has been called Chaz, an abbreviation of Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone. Hundreds of people have been gathering there to demonstrate, hear speeches and attend events.

The protests in Seattle, Washington began in response to last month’s death in police custody of an unarmed black man, George Floyd, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

President Trump, who has pushed states to take firm action against protesters, has meanwhile outlined proposals for reforming police, including greater funding for training and national guidelines on the use of force.
Past few weeks have been rough for Donald Trump.

Indications are coming that he is trailing Democrat Joe Biden in November’s presidential contest by a growing margin. There are reports of turmoil in his campaign.

Four years ago, he jumped into the deep end of the electoral pool and – defying all expectations and predictions – won his party’s the White House.

However, he dismissed calls for defunding the police as an “extreme agenda”. Such a measure involves budgets being allocated directly to communities rather than law enforcement.

The area around East Precinct in Seattle became a battleground between protesters and police in the past two weeks, leading the governor to send in the National Guard and for the mayor to impose a curfew.