A sign welcoming visitors to the protest zone on East Pine Street in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood.
Photographer: Meron Menghistab for Bloomberg Businessweek
Community, Not Anarchy, Inside Seattle’s Protest Zone
The cops are gone, but the area hasn’t devolved into violent disorder, as President Trump claims.
The One Year, One Neighborhood series follows small businesses in the Pike/Pine corridor in Seattle, the first coronavirus hot spot in the U.S., to get a sense of what cities will look like as they reopen.
Adasha Turner liked what she saw. Looking at the vegetable garden that had just been planted in Cal Anderson Park, she said she felt good about her decision to bring her 6-year-old daughter to a part of Seattle that President Trump recently described as being taken over by “ugly anarchists.”