Another Shooting at Seattle's Protest 'Autonomous Zone'

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11. So much baseless speculation.

Let me join in with some speculation based on living in this city for 30 years:

BOTH these shootings will be tied back to gang activity and young men who knew that their targets were in this limited area, rather than somewhere else in Seattle a city of >800K in a region of >3 million.

Not Anarchists. Not the Proud Boys.

The Pike/Pine Corridor in Capitol Hill is NOT a "High-Crime Area". It was, prior to Covid-19, the center of the city's nightlife and Gay and alternative culture. There's a longtime Lesbian bar, the Wild Rose. Several Gay Bars. REI started there. There are great restaurants there, great coffee shops, great record shops. Apartments. Rock clubs.