Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best, center, bumps elbows in greeting with an officer as the chief walks the perimeter of an area police cleared hours earlier Wednesday, July 1, 2020, in Seattle, where streets had been blocked off in an area demonstrators had occupied for weeks. Seattle police showed up in force earlier in the day at the "occupied" protest zone, tore down demonstrators' tents and used bicycles to herd the protesters after the mayor ordered the area cleared foll…
July 1, 2020
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Seattle police forcibly clear 'lawless' protest zone
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