Protesters from Seattle's CHOP confront construction workers and lie down in front of bulldozers that arrived to remove the concrete barriers surrounding the cop-free zone
Protesters in Seattle's Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP) zone confronted construction workers as they attempted to remove roadblocks on Friday morning.
Employees from the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) arrived around 6.00am with trucks and heavy machinery to haul away the concrete and wooden barriers.
Video taken by
Converge Media showed Sam Zimbabwe, head of SDOT, and a representative from Mayor Jenny Durkan speaking to demonstrators, with the representative assuring that no protesters would be removed.
Several marchers stood in front of a bulldozer while others lay down n the middle of the street. Others sat on top of the wooden barricades.
At around 7.30am, SDOT began driving its construction vehicles out of the area without having removed any of the barricades.
A self-styled head of security in a balaclava tried negotiating with police officers as a bulldozer sat ready ready to move in
A Seattle police officer who didn’t want to be identified told DaiilyMail.com that 'everything is on hold right now, the city trucks are leaving. Both sides are talking right now.'
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