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The city of Seattle has succumbed to the pressure from protesters occupying “Capitol Hill Organized Protest” and will remove temporary roadblocks put in place by protesters, only replace them with permanent, concrete barriers, according to Fox News.
The Seattle Department of Transportation will install concrete barriers between Pine Street, running East and West, which will split the road for both pedestrian and vehicle traffic.
Reportedly, this will allow emergency service vehicles to pass through the area.
The agreement between the City of Seattle and protesters will actually reduce the area deemed Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, or CHAZ, from roughly six blocks to three.
The Seattle City Council also recently voted unanimously to ban police from using chokeholds, and crowd-control devices like tear gas and pepper spray.
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This is the first time in weeks traffic will be able to pass by the shuttered East Police Precinct.
Fox News has confirmed the agreement to replace the wooden barrier set in place by the protesters with concrete barriers with Seattle Fire Chief Harold Scoggins, the Seattle Department of Transportation and Seattle Public Utilities. The Seattle Police Department is not overseeing the concrete barrier being put in place.
