black rapper with an ak-47 becomes warlord of the CHAZ after police retreat and desert their police precinct in fear

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A Seattle rapper is accused of declaring himself a warlord — and acting as the sheriff of the city’s leaderless, cop-free protest zone dubbed the CHAZ.

Raz Simone was caught on video allegedly assaulting someone over graffiti in the CHAZ — which stands for Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone — a six-block area set up by protesters this week around the Seattle Police Department’s East Precinct.

“We are the police of this community now,” a person on the video posted to Twitter is heard telling the alleged vandal, as Simone tries to intervene. “We are the leaders of this community now.”

The video then shows Simone and the tagger scuffling.

Simone, who’s reportedly been patrolling the CHAZ with an AK-47 and a handgun, responded on Twitter, saying the men squashed their beef.



“It was great black dialogue and men apologizing to each other, abandoning pride,” he wrote. “We all hugged each other, cried it out and it was beautiful.”

Protesters have identified Simone as one of the leaders in the CHAZ, according to KOMO News. Other news outlets have accused him of turning into a warlord.

In a YouTube video, the 30-year-old rapper, whose real name is Solomon Samuel Simone, urged other armed protesters to protect the area.