Is Cuba coming to Seattle at the the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP)? Press freedoms violated by revolutionaries in control

Have constitutional rights been suspended at the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP)

Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP) in Seattle Washington

Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone "CHAZ" renamed now the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP), consists of six city blocks that protesters have taken over, is apparently following aspects of the the Cuban model of policing when dealing with journalists who record them without their permission. The video below starting at 3 hours and 44 minutes starts calm, but then the sound of gun fire erupts, followed by CHOP security coming in and trying to censor the citizen journalist at 3 hours and 50 minutes.

Here's my unedited footage of the shooting at the Seattle #CHAZ / #CHOP free zone tonight: https://t.co/7nAsWHAc50

I have no details on what happened besides what appears in the video. Afterwards no one laid hands on me but they did take my phone. They then gave it back. ↓

— Shawn Whiting (@ShawnGui_) June 22, 2020

Citizen journalist Shawn Gui was recording with a live feed from his phone when shooting erupted, and shortly afterwards the CHOP's security forces grabbed his camera and tried to delete it.

Daily Wire reported what transpired:

On Sunday night, a second shooting occurred in Seattle’s so-called “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone,” dubbed “CHAZ” or “CHOP,” that was captured via livestream by Twitch user Shawn Whiting.
In footage of the aftermath of the shooting, a member of CHAZ “security” is seen stealing Whiting’s phone and demanding he “delete” the damning footage.

“Whiting was livestreaming on Twitch for just under four hours,” reported NOQ Report posted Monday morning. “Near the end, gunshots can be heard. At the time, it was unclear if the noise was actual gunshots or fireworks, but his phone continued to livestream after it was taken by a member of CHOP ‘security.’ The man who carried the phone away confirmed at least one person had been shot.”
Following the ring of gunfire, folks in CHAZ who’ve reached safety call the area a “war zone.”
“Another n***** just got shot,” one man says. “This is a war zone.”
Whiting suggests the shooting, the second in just two days (the Saturday shooting included at least one fatality), will be the “end of CHOP.”
“This is kind of a nightmare,” the Twitch user says aloud.
Earlier this month, far-left protesters including Antifa and Black Lives Matter supporters commandeered six blocks of property, including the Seattle Police Department’s East Precinct, which has since been abandoned.

At one point during the stream, Whiting is questioned by a “security” member of CHAZ and told to delete the footage. Whiting suggests he has permission to live-stream, directing the man to a person named “James Madison.”
“Give me that f***ing phone, man,” the man tells Whiting. “What the f*** are you doing? … Hey, hey! Delete that s***! Delete that f***ing s***!”
“That’s my phone!” Whiting says after his phone is stolen.
“I do not give a f***,” CHAZ “security” replies. “I do not care.”

Last week The Progressive, a publication founded in 1909 in Madison, Wisconsin published an article titled "Foreign Correspondent: Police Lessons From Cuba" by Reese Erlich that claimed "Contrary to the image of brutal and repressive communists, police in Cuba offer an instructive example for activists in the United States." 

At the time I outlined that in Cuba individuals uploading images of the police on a digital platform with out their permission would be guilty of violating Cuban law  and it would be compounded if the images portrayed the police in a negative light. 

At the time I naively pointed out that a law, patterned after Cuba's, would require those who record police on or off the job to get the approval of the police officer recorded before sharing the video with any digital platforms, and that it would run afoul of First Amendment  guarantees.

Evan Gerstmann writing in Forbes said, "The situation inside CHOP represents an egregious deprivation of its residents’ constitutional rights. The residents of the area have not consented to being ruled over by the leaders of CHOP. They have not consented to the withdrawal of police protection of their persons and property or to violations of freedom of the press."  

Americans in 2020 in six city blocks of Seattle, Washington are getting a little taste of Cuba. Reading the manifesto of some of the protesters, if they have their way many more Americans will be experiencing what being derived of your Constitutional rights feels like, but hey for the folks tearing down statues of Washington, and Jefferson all that is so 1787.

Hey #CHAZ or #CHOP or whatever they call themselves is applying the Cuba policing strategy that @theprogressive said Americans could learn from: https://t.co/dVIGhTSr4N They are confiscating cameras and deleting video that makes them look bad. https://t.co/nGFGgaS4J9 pic.twitter.com/6Gqap3kZyd

— Justice for the Four (@justiceforthe4) June 23, 2020