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On Some Streets of Seattle, More Circus Than Siege
A residential area taken over by, well, it’s hard to say.
Yes, that is a police precinct station.
Photographer: Joni Balter
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If you didn’t know better, that is, if you listened to President Donald Trump and a few conservative media outlets, you would think that Seattle’s downtown was aflame, with lawless anarchists running amok.
Law and order, it’s not. But the president’s tortured portrait of a four-square block area in the city known as the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone mostly made Seattleites chortle.