When I first heard last June that a group of people had taken over a neighborhood in downtown Seattle, ostensibly in response to the killing of an unarmed black man, George Floyd, by a police officer in Minneapolis, I couldn’t understand what had happened. It wasn’t like a bunch of heavily armed anarchists had erected traffic barricades and kicked the police out of their precinct building, I thought, and went back to whatever it was I was doing. It was only after I had learned of the killing of two black teenagers in the occupied area that I came to understand that the anarchists had, in fact,
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Ah yes, our neighbors...
