We Keep Us Safe: This Ain’t Coachella
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Focus from KUOW in Seattle. Heads up, this episode contains explicit language and the sound of gun violence. You'll also hear intense audio of confrontations between protesters and police, including the sound of flashbangs and other loud booming noises. Previously on We Keep Us Safe.
Antonio Junior left his home for Seattle on June twenty third, twenty twenty, without telling his dad. He was shot and killed at the Seattle protest less than a week later.
You see a shadow outside the passenger door of the white jeep.
А тайм протест прохапні окрас за кантрі.
But Seattle was different.
God damn it, they got me, you motherfuckers! POLISE!
Protesters' worst fears materialized. There was a car that started to accelerate.
The violence protesters faced actually galvanized the movement.
The police are now moving out. The street is gonna open up. That kind of sparked this idea of we should stay.
At the very beginning of Chop, it felt like a giant exhale. The standoff was over. The tear gas was gone. This spot that for the past week had been a showdown between police and protesters was now a police free zone. At the heart of Chop was a big green city park. At night you could see dozens of tents for people who were staying there. And during the day, thousands of people converged on this space. Protesters painted murals in the streets and set up a stage for speeches and protest songs.
Yo yo, it's a beautiful, beautiful thing to be alive right now, is it not?
My dad in the Philadelphia suburbs is watching the news and is afraid that Seattle has been taken over by radical anarchists and he calls me all freaked out and I'm like, Dad, Dad, it's okay. Let me FaceTime with you right now. And I walked him through CHOP. People had dangled extension cords from windows so protesters living in the park could charge their phones. There were all these tables and tents stacked with donations and bottled water.
When we sing we want our world to change, we have to sing it like we want our world to change. Right here in three Seattle, look! I want my world to change, I want my world to change. It evolved into this community. The community of people that were coming together to serve the area that we were occupying better than the city was doing in our eyes.
This is where Shila Levitt, one of Chop's emerging leaders who we met in the last episode. She says Chop was a place where protesters poured their energy into supporting each other and the homeless population staying in the
park.
We had soup kitchen.
We started in a community garden. There's lettuces over there. Those would look like chives maybe. We were feeding everybody.
Local restaurants were donating food.
Lots of food and snacks. Again, this is all free.
And protesters kept up their demands. They kept pushing for city leaders to cut the police budget by at least half and invest in social services.
And so the demand that I put on the list. Is that we take some of the four hundred million dollars that we give to the Seattle Police Department every year? And instead we put the money into community services that know how to help people in crisis without jubiling it.
I really want to stress that for a moment there it was utopia.
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