(Reuters) – Seattle police are working to clear out a protest zone in the city that has become “lawless and brutal” after weeks of violence, including four shootings and the deaths of two teenagers, the city’s police chief said on Wednesday.
The move came after Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan declared the gathering of people in and around the police department’s East Precinct and Cal Anderson Park an “unlawful assembly”, the city’s police chief, Carmen Best, said in a statement.
(Reporting by Nathan Layne in Wilton, Connecticut; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)
