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By BRENDAN KILEY, RYAN BLETHEN, SYDNEY BROWNSTONE AND DANIEL BEEKMAN Seattle Times staff reporters “Entering Cop-Free Zone. Long live CHAZ,” the faded pink sidewalk chalk still proclaimed on East Pine Street at 13th Avenue on Wednes- day evening. A group of at least 50 protesters stood at Pine and Broadway, distributing pizza, sometimes shouting at the officers on the other side of the police tape. But the tents, the graffitied barricades, and the co-op shops that have marked the Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP) — or the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, aka CHAZ, as it was named at the start of the occupation — were gone. After about 3 ½ weeks, after the protest zone became the subject of heated national debate and the scene of violence and tragedy, Seattle police and other agencies swept in early Wednesday with heavily equipped officers and tactical vehicles, clearing the area with threats to arrest anyone who stayed behind. Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan issued an execu- tive order at 9:28 p.m. Tuesday, declaring that gathering in the area is unlawful assembly, 1 R Our newsprint contains recycled fiber, and inks are reused. © 2020 Seattle Times Co. 7 59423 24000 4 THU WINNER OF 11 PULITZER PRIZES INDEPENDENT AND LOCALLY OWNED FOR MORE THAN 123 YEARS SEATTLETIMES.COM THURSDAY, JULY 2, 2020 $1.50 CLOUDS/SHOWERS High, 67. Low, 55. > A15 seattletimes.com/weather Council won’t grant Durkan’s request for Sawant investigation NORTHWEST > A7 NFL may cut preseason from four games to two SPORTS > B1 The end of the CHOP SWEEP | Heavily equipped officers arrived around 5 a.m., threatening arrest for lingerers MIKE SIEGEL / THE SEATTLE TIMES Seattle police officers leave the East Precinct — after retaking the building and the surrounding area known as the CHOP early Wednesday. The area around the station had been occupied by protesters for the last few weeks, who demanded an end to police brutality. requiring immediate action from city agencies. Police moved in around 5 a.m., issuing dis- persal orders and arresting at least 44 people throughout the day, the department reported Wednesday evening. At least 100 police officers equipped with body armor, batons, helmets and weapons pushed forward as protesters slowly See > CHOP, A5 STEVE RINGMAN / THE SEATTLE TIMES Seattle police sweep Cal Anderson Park on Wednesday. A protester at the zone said about 50 people in the park were homeless. By ARIANA EUNJUNG CHA The Washington Post When pathologist Amy Rap- kiewicz began opening up the coronavirus dead to learn how their bodies went awry, she found damage to the lungs, kidneys and liver consistent with what doctors had reported for months. But something was off. Rapkiewicz, who directs au- topsies at NYU Langone Health, noticed that some organs had far too many of a special type of cell rarely found in those places. She had never seen that before, yet it seemed vaguely familiar. She raced to her history books and — in a eureka moment — found a reference to a 1960s report on a patient with dengue fever. In dengue, a mosquito-borne tropical disease, she learned, the virus appeared to destroy these cells, which produce platelets, leading to uncontrolled bleed- ing. The novel coronavirus seemed to amplify their effect, causing dangerous clotting. She was struck by the paral- lels: “COVID-19 and dengue sound really different, but the cells that are involved are simi- lar.” Autopsies have long been a source of breakthroughs in un- derstanding new diseases, from HIV/AIDS and Ebola, to Lassa fever — and the medical commu- nity is counting on them to do the same for COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. Autopsies are be- coming a critical source of infor- mation for research into possible See > AUTOPSY, A6 Coronavirus autopsies tell puzzling but useful stories By MARY HUDETZ Seattle Times staff reporter The search for a stolen “bait” car — an old, gold Honda Accord owned by local law enforcement — took officers to a home on a rural road on the Yakama Indian Reservation, where tensions have simmered for years over who gets to oversee a criminal case. For decades, an especially com- plex landscape of law enforcement boundaries on many reservations has vexed tribal, state and local officers in situations like this, leaving some to puzzle — and sometimes argue in the middle of an investigation — over which agency can arrest whom. Outside the home in the agricul- tural patch of south-central Wash- ington, one of those arguments among officers began to unfold one afternoon in September 2018, provoking a dispute that had been entangled in federal courts until a court ruling this week. A police officer from Toppenish — a town within the boundaries of See > YAKAMA, A15 U.S. court rules against Yakama in policing case male relative had been sexually molesting her since she was 5. After the abortive investigation in Ferry County, the Benton Coun- ty Sheriff’s Office stepped in with its own criminal probe, leading See > CULP, A16 By JIM BRUNNER Seattle Times political reporter Loren Culp, the Republican gubernatorial candidate and police chief of Republic, Ferry County, is accused in a lawsuit of botching a child sexual-abuse investigation and intimidating the victim with threats of a false- claims charge. The lawsuit, filed in 2017, al- leges Culp and two other law-en- forcement officers failed to prop- erly investigate and report to state authorities allegations in 2013 from a 17-year-old girl who said a Suit accuses GOP candidate of botching sex-abuse case “ It was never about the location; it was about the movement.” DAVID LEWIS, an organizer at CHOP By ASIA FIELDS Seattle Times staff reporter At least 80 students living in a dozen fraternity houses just north of the University of Washington campus have reported testing positive for COVID-19, the novel coronavirus disease, with hun- dreds of results pending. The university learned Satur- day that three fraternity residents had symptoms of COVID-19, and public health officials noticed a spike in cases from the area among people ages 18 to 20, said university spokesperson Michelle Ma. By Tuesday, the university said at least 38 students tested positive. More than 800 students have been tested at a site set up Mon- day in response to the Greek system outbreak, Ma said. The university expects to have an updated case count early next week. So far, it has relied on numbers provided by the stu- dent-run Interfraternity Council of self-reported results. Experts say the outbreak, along with cases among student-ath- letes, is a troubling sign of what might be in store if colleges re- open in the fall. University of See > UW, A16 At least 80 in UW frat houses test positive COVID-19 | Experts are concerned about college reopenings.
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By BRENDAN KILEY, RYAN BLETHEN, SYDNEY BROWNSTONE AND DANIEL BEEKMANSeattle Times staff reporters
“Entering Cop-Free Zone. Long live CHAZ,” the faded pink sidewalk chalk still proclaimed on East Pine Street at 13th Avenue on Wednes-day evening. A group of at least 50 protesters stood at Pine and Broadway, distributing pizza, sometimes shouting at the officers on the other side of the police tape.
But the tents, the graffitied barricades, and the co-op shops that have marked the Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP) — or the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, aka CHAZ, as it was named at the start of the occupation — were gone. After about 3 ½ weeks, after the protest zone became the subject of heated national debate and the scene of violence and tragedy, Seattle police and other agencies swept in early Wednesday with heavily equipped officers and tactical vehicles, clearing the area with threats to arrest anyone who stayed behind.
Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan issued an execu-tive order at 9:28 p.m. Tuesday, declaring that gathering in the area is unlawful assembly,
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The end of the CHOP
SWEEP | Heavily equipped officers arrived around 5 a.m., threatening arrest for lingerers
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Seattle police officers leave the East Precinct — after retaking the building and the surrounding area known as the CHOP early Wednesday. The area around the station had been occupied by protesters for the last few weeks, who demanded an end to police brutality.
requiring immediate action from city agencies.Police moved in around 5 a.m., issuing dis-
persal orders and arresting at least 44 people throughout the day, the department reported Wednesday evening. At least 100 police officers equipped with body armor, batons, helmets and weapons pushed forward as protesters slowly
See > CHOP, A5
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Seattle police sweep Cal Anderson Park on Wednesday. A protester at the zone said about 50 people in the park were homeless.
By ARIANA EUNJUNG CHAThe Washington Post
When pathologist Amy Rap-kiewicz began opening up the coronavirus dead to learn how their bodies went awry, she found damage to the lungs, kidneys and liver consistent with what doctors had reported for months.
But something was off.Rapkiewicz, who directs au-
topsies at NYU Langone Health, noticed that some organs had far too many of a special type of cell rarely found in those places. She had never seen that before, yet it seemed vaguely familiar. She raced to her history books and — in a eureka moment — found a reference to a 1960s report on a patient with dengue fever.
In dengue, a mosquito-borne tropical disease, she learned, the virus appeared to destroy these cells, which produce platelets, leading to uncontrolled bleed-ing. The novel coronavirus seemed to amplify their effect, causing dangerous clotting.
She was struck by the paral-lels: “COVID-19 and dengue sound really different, but the cells that are involved are simi-lar.”
Autopsies have long been a source of breakthroughs in un-derstanding new diseases, from HIV/AIDS and Ebola, to Lassa fever — and the medical commu-nity is counting on them to do the same for COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. Autopsies are be-coming a critical source of infor-mation for research into possible
See > AUTOPSY, A6
Coronavirus autopsies tell puzzling but useful stories
By MARY HUDETZSeattle Times staff reporter
The search for a stolen “bait” car — an old, gold Honda Accord owned by local law enforcement — took officers to a home on a rural road on the Yakama Indian Reservation, where tensions have simmered for years over who gets to oversee a criminal case.
For decades, an especially com-plex landscape of law enforcement boundaries on many reservations has vexed tribal, state and local officers in situations like this,
leaving some to puzzle — and sometimes argue in the middle of an investigation — over which agency can arrest whom.
Outside the home in the agricul-tural patch of south-central Wash-ington, one of those arguments among officers began to unfold one afternoon in September 2018, provoking a dispute that had been entangled in federal courts until a court ruling this week.
A police officer from Toppenish — a town within the boundaries of
See > YAKAMA, A15
U.S. court rules against Yakama in policing case
male relative had been sexually molesting her since she was 5.
After the abortive investigation in Ferry County, the Benton Coun-ty Sheriff’s Office stepped in with its own criminal probe, leading
See > CULP, A16
By JIM BRUNNERSeattle Times political reporter
Loren Culp, the Republican gubernatorial candidate and police chief of Republic, Ferry County, is accused in a lawsuit of botching a child sexual-abuse investigation and intimidating the victim with threats of a false-claims charge.
The lawsuit, filed in 2017, al-leges Culp and two other law-en-forcement officers failed to prop-erly investigate and report to state authorities allegations in 2013 from a 17-year-old girl who said a
Suit accuses GOP candidate of botching sex-abuse case
“It was never about the location; it was about the movement.”
DAVID LEWIS, an organizer at CHOP
By ASIA FIELDSSeattle Times staff reporter
At least 80 students living in a dozen fraternity houses just north of the University of Washington campus have reported testing positive for COVID-19, the novel coronavirus disease, with hun-dreds of results pending.
The university learned Satur-day that three fraternity residents had symptoms of COVID-19, and public health officials noticed a spike in cases from the area among people ages 18 to 20, said university spokesperson Michelle Ma. By Tuesday, the university said at least 38 students tested positive.
More than 800 students have been tested at a site set up Mon-day in response to the Greek system outbreak, Ma said. The university expects to have an updated case count early next week. So far, it has relied on numbers provided by the stu-dent-run Interfraternity Council of self-reported results.
Experts say the outbreak, along with cases among student-ath-letes, is a troubling sign of what might be in store if colleges re-open in the fall. University of
See > UW, A16
At least 80 in UW frat houses test positiveCOVID- 19 | Experts are concerned about college reopenings.
