Chaz

US president Donald Trump has threatened to crush what he calls “ugly Anarchists”, who recently declared the inner Seattle suburb of Capitol Hill an “autonomous zone”, now known as CHAZ.

2020 June 12, Tom Coburg, “Trump and his far-right allies attack Seattle’s Capitol Hill autonomous zone”, in The Canary

Insider's Isaac Scher reported the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, or CHAZ, was set up along several blocks, where it created a space for tents, free food, art-making, and rallies around the city's abandoned East Precinct.

2020 July 2, Ellen Cranley, “How the 2-week occupation of Seattle's CHOP 'autonomous zone' saw demonstrators take over several city blocks before it descended into chaos”, in Insider

First known as Free Capitol Hill, then the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ), and finally the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest or Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP), the six-block area began to take shape on June 9, 2020, the day after police boarded up and abandoned the East Precinct.

2021 June 8, Lucas Combos, “A Year After Seattle's CHOP Formed, Some Questions Linger”, in Patch, archived from the original on 04 Jul 2021

The demonstrators tried to create an autonomous zone around the precincts, like CHAZ in Seattle. Police responded by declaring an “unlawful session,” KOIN reported.

2021 June 22, Isabella Khademhosseini, “Portland’s tourist boss takes a full page of the New York Times admitting that a rioted city has an ‘edge’”, in Texas News Today, archived from the original on 28 Jun 2021