Seattle residents said Sunday that despite rumors that the city was going to reclaim the “occupied” area known as CHOP, little has changed on the ground and the “security” at the protest zone has actually gotten more “contentious” with residents who live nearby. “They won’t let people in the neighborhood sometimes at night,” Matthew Ploszaj, who lives there, told KOMO News. Michael Solan, Seattle Police Officers Guild president, told Fox News on Saturday that business owners and residents there are effectively being held hostage. The protesters said they were honoring a black woman, Charleena Lyles, 30, who was killed by police in 2017 in the city. Fox News' Julia Musto, Fox Business' Evie Fordham and the Associated Press contributed to this report

Source: Fox News June 29, 2020 06:11 UTC