The area was declared the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone - or Chaz, for short. It was to be a police-free, self-governing utopia. A few days later, in an interview with CNN on 11 June, the city's ...

The zone, initially known as Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (Chaz) and now called Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (Chop), was set up amid protests over the killing of George Floyd. As it is part of a ...

adding that there were disagreements among CHOP organizers and protesters about whether any officers should be let into the area — formerly known as the CHAZ, or Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone ...