More Atlanta Police Calling Out Sick; Shooting in Seattle Protest Zone Leaves One Dead
HOLMES: Atlanta, Georgia's, interim police chief reassuring residents that police are responding to emergency calls. But he says the force has been, quote, "stretched" because of demonstrations and unrest. He also spoke about why there has been an uptick in police not turning up to work.</s>RODNEY BRYANT, INTERIM CHIEF, APD: The explanation for calling out sick vary and include officers questioning their training, officers being challenged and attacked and unease about officers seeing their colleagues criminally charged so quickly.</s>HOLMES: Atlanta fire investigators have issued an arrest warrant in the case of a Wendy's restaurant fire last Saturday. That, of course, is where Rayshard Brooks had his fatal encounter with a police officer. They say the woman in this image here, her name is Natalie White, is wanted for first degree arson. In body cam video, Brooks is heard telling officers that White is his girlfriend. Investigators say more suspects could be involved. We are keeping across that. Meanwhile, no arrest has been made so far in a fatal shooting earlier on Saturday morning, in Seattle. It happened in what's become known as the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone. Police responding to a shooting call in the area. They say a violent crowd prevented them from getting to the victims. One of those victims is a 19 year old man, who died at the hospital; another man is in hospital with life-threatening injuries. Now that zone in Seattle developed, of course, after the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Heated protests prompted police to evacuate a precinct in the area. Protesters have held the space in the name of the people ever since. CNN's Elle Reeve reports from inside the zone.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's time to get right with God.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He has a right to speak and say what he wants.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Our job is to de-escalate and share the space.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: So the idea is this is what society could be without police.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: To be honest, we are 3 days deep, so, forgive us if it's not as organized as we wanted to be. We wanted to show that people can police themselves. People can take care of themselves.</s>ELLE REEVE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): This is the Capitol Hill autonomous zone, also known as the CHAZ. It's a 6 block area being controlled by protesters.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (voice-over): After Seattle police abandoned their East Precinct. Now police don't dare enter. And are under orders not to answer any calls in that zone unless there's a mass casualty.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Once they left, it just kind of took on a mind of its own. We are finally safe and we finally don't have to worry about police brutality.</s>REEVE (voice-over): But it wasn't always like this. The CHAZ was born after violent clashes with police.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The medics gave me this, because I got shot in the chest with it.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Can you tell you what happened that night?</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I was about to get on my knees, we all had our hands up and then they shot me. And the medic couldn't get a pulse 4 times and we were unarmed. We were unarmed. Why do they feel so threatened against us?</s>REEVE (voice-over): The SPD says this incident is under investigation. And if policy or law violations have occurred, they will take proper steps to address it.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: All the people are here for each other. Like, we don't want any violence at all.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Everyone's peaceful, man.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: How do you create the rules for the CHAZ?</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There is leadership out here. We communicate as best we possibly can, right? And you know, it's just human decency. How you doing, what's up, family? Put your joint out, hand it off to somebody and come here and talk to me real quick. Yes, try not to curse, either.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Is it going to always work? Absolutely. I think statistically if you look at the amount of people that are here and the amount of violence that is occurring, it's so minimal, that it reflects very positively on this experiment.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The CHAZ is a poor reflection on Seattle. This is a result of elected officials that are failing to enforce the rule of law. But if I were to go 50 yards to my west, I would not be allowed in there. In fact, I would be concerned about my safety.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: They say it's quite peaceful, it's kind of like a party in there.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: But the reports that we have is there are armed people inside. But I would love for you to stick around until 2 or 3 in the morning, I would love to see all your footage and maybe you can document the unreasonable activism that's going on in there.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: OK, it's 2:30. What's the scene?</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is for the most part people picking out where they're going to camp out for the night. People are winding down, just</s>REEVE (voice-over): There are still a few bursts of confusion and anger when a suspicion person comes through. They're still figuring out how to make their own law and order in a cop free world.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The long term strategy is to stay here and protest and be a demonstration. If the PD want their precinct back, if they are keen to return and not suppress our right to protest and to not engage in war tactics to do it, we are more than happy to have them back here.</s>REEVE (voice-over): Elle Reeve, CNN, the CHAZ.</s>HOLMES: At this time of anti racism protests around the world, CNN has conducted an extensive poll on attitudes about racism in the U.K. We are going to have the results in and analysis for you starting this coming Monday. Quick break; when we come back, restaurants starting to reopen in France. The country that put high cuisine on the map, how they're welcoming back patrons while trying to keep the coronavirus at bay.