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While mainstream media outlets like CNN and Democratic politicians like Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan (D) and Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee (D) continue to gaslight Americans on what’s going on at the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) in Seattle, Washington, reporting done by non-traditional media sources tells a much more disturbing story of what takes place inside the “no cop zone” when the big media cameras stop rolling.

As my RedState colleague Nick Arama wrote earlier in a news round-up of what was unfolding there, the CHAZ is far more than the “festive block party” the MSM and Democrats have painted it out to be. Instead, vigilante-style “justice” is taking place when the camera lights go out, and Lord of the Flies-style “governing” is more the rule than the exception:

CHAZ IS A POLICE STATE

leader @RazSimone’s crew punched a journalist @FromKalen in the head for filming

Demanded he hand over his equipment

Told him he needed to go into a tent to be interrogated

He ran for his life

They chased him down in a car

Police had to rescue him

— ELIJAH SCHAFFER (@ElijahSchaffer) June 15, 2020

A frustrated Seattle police chief Carmen Best even told reporters last Thursday that “Our calls for service have more than tripled” since the CHAZ takeover. “These are responses to emergency calls — rapes, robberies, and all sorts of violent acts that have been occurring in the area that we’re not able to get to.”

Among the many videos circulating on social media that paint a far more damning picture of what life is like inside the CHAZ walls is one the purportedly shows a CHAZ inhabitant in the middle of an expletive-filled rant about his phone and car keys allegedly being stolen from him in a random attack in broad daylight.

He complains in the video that the people walking all around him just let it happen and didn’t step in to help. The clearly agitated man then talks about how police are needed in situations like the one he claimed to be in.

Watch the video below, and note how one woman appears to just casually steal a soda that was sitting underneath the man’s open car door as he went off on everyone around him (Note: Video link changed to note the actual source of the video):

Another crazy person in the Seattle Autonomous Zone is smashing out the windows of his car, says his keys were stolen pic.twitter.com/dwCmL4g4zN

— Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) June 13, 2020

It’s important to note here that the video has not been independently confirmed to be from CHAZ, but the Twitter user who shared it has frequently posted other videos of riots and protests from around the country and in Seattle that were legit.

Here’s another video of the same man ranting:

The Seattle Autonomous Zone is now also a free drug use zone pic.twitter.com/W8QIdgfEWq

— Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) June 13, 2020

Independent journalist Andy Ngo also tweeted out this clip of CHAZ’s homophobic “warlord” Raz Simone handing out a rifle to another vigilante while talking about needing to find more people who know how to use a gun:

Video shows Raz Simone handing out a long rifle to another person inside the Seattle BLM “Autonomous Zone.” Guns, weapons and drugs are ubiquitous in and around the “no cop” zone. pic.twitter.com/u9ZsS1YlZP

— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) June 15, 2020

There was also this:

Guns, alcohol, drugs, fights are a regular occurrence inside the Seattle “autonomous zone.” The state-sanctioned experiment in anarchy goes on. pic.twitter.com/t4yPgB4M1C

— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) June 15, 2020

Contrast all of those videos with how CNN typically covers CHAZ:

How CNN’s @DanSimonCNN described his CHAZ (or CHOP or whatever the police-free Seattle zone is called now) report in a private FB post: “A counter narrative to Fox propaganda of what things look like in Seattle. Does this look like the picture of anarchy?” https://t.co/TWUD8SztY7 pic.twitter.com/pWLXKFuMxP

— Steve Krakauer (@SteveKrak) June 15, 2020

And yet the mainstream media wonders why so many no longer trust them?

For more on-the-ground reporting of what’s really taking place inside of the CHAZ, make sure to follow Townhall.com’s Julio Rosas.