By GENE JOHNSON
Associated Press
SEATTLE (AP) â A year after racial justice and anti-police demonstrators took over part of Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood, there are lines outside the restaurants in and around the former protest zone.
Pickup soccer games and dog owners playing fetch dominate a park formerly occupied by a tent encampment. Corn, kale and zucchini flourish in a community garden dug by the protesters, next to the letters âBLMâ fashioned from lengths of hose.
But issues crystallized by the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest â policing, equity, disorder and homelessness â are animating Seattleâs Tuesday mayoral primary, a contest that highlights a political divide between activist-left voters and more moderate progressives.