I'm Ayesha Roscoe, and this is a Sunday Story from Up First.
Our story today starts in the summer of 2020. Remember,
that's when protests were happening all over the country after the killing of George Floyd.
But in Seattle, something happened that didn't really happen anywhere else in the U.S.
Standoff with protesters went on for days.
And then the police actually abandoned a precinct in the middle of the city in the Capitol Hill neighborhood.
They just left.
And once they were gone, protesters set up an Occupy style camp around it.
The camp was called CHOP, the Capitol Hill Occupy protest.
It was an experiment in a different kind of world with its own medical teams and its own armed security.
People there believed they were building a better version of society, one that rejected police violence.
But three weeks in, that experiment ended.
There was a shooting at the camp and the gunfire came from the people who were actually trying to defend the camp.
A black teenager died.
Six years later, the case remains unsolved.
In a new eight-part series from NPR's Embedded, reporters Will James and Sydney Brownstone take us inside
CHOP to find out what happened the night of the shooting and how violence came to occupy this anti-violence occupation.
Today we're bringing you the first episode in the series
and new episodes will be released weekly over the coming months in the Embedded podcast.
One more thing before we start.