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It didn’t take long for the so-called Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (or as they’re also known, the Capitol Hill Organised Protest) to become everything they hate.
Like every nation before them, those organizing CHAZ immediately realized that a nation is defined by their borders. While there’s inconsistent messaging on whether they consider themselves an autonomous society separate from the U.S. or just Woodstock for cop haters, the very first thing they did was define their territory by putting up barricades and setting up checkpoints to screen who is entering. An Airbnb superhost named Raz became the territory’s de-facto warlord and enforced their version of the law with guns (which we assume these leftists oppose in every other context).
The group also evidently didn’t live up to the “autonomous” part of their former name, having to rely on the local fire department to put out one dumpster fire, and local paramedics to help a shooting victim. In the latter case CHAZ’s occupants were at least consistent with their “no cops allowed” policy, which meant that paramedics couldn’t help the victim because cops weren’t able to secure the area. The comrade bled out for thirty minutes and died.
As I calculated following that shooting, CHAZ had become the most violent “nation” on the planet following that single shooting. CHAZ is estimated to have a small population of only 200, implying a murder rate of 500 per 100,000. In 2019 Venezuela was the world’s most dangerous country with a murder rate of 60.3 per 100,000, 88% lower than CHAZ/CHOP.
Of course, one could argue that this is misleading because CHAZ and/or CHOP has a small “permanent” population and many thousands enter their alleged paradise every day. While we don’t know how many visitors the zone gets daily, if they get 1,000 they have a murder rate of 100 per 100,000. If their population were as high as 5,000 (which is very unlikely), it would still imply a murder rate of 20 per 100,000, about four times the U.S. average.
Last week, the zone held a segregated black-only event, guarded by white people.
So within weeks we got borders, armed security, segregation, and gun violence. And just earlier this week, the group’s security became what they’re literally there to protest – police shooting unarmed black men.