The disparity between my firsthand experience and the way that this is reported in the media has been eye-opening.
I haven't read much about this zone, but I don't think I'd trust "City Journal" to describe it accurately. The HTML title of their front page is:
> City Journal | Urban Affairs Magazine | Conservative Magazine Online
Their front page is full of articles pushing back against the current protest movement, from pretty much every angle possible:
> Racism Is An Empty Thesis
> False Prophets: If you really want to help black America, don’t look to Black Lives Matter.
> Repudiate the Anti-Police Narrative
> The Cost of Bad Intentions: Progressive policies threaten a new era of urban dysfunction.
> Why We Need the Police
> Behavior Matters: Why some people spend their lives in poverty and social dysfunction
If the internet is to be believed, it's been scientifically proven that anyone in an any area that deviates from capitalism immediately starts starving in a gulag.
> I was there last night and it's such a cool pseudo utopian place
> The media coverage of it is WILD
> People on the internet are convinced it's protected by armed guards and people are dying of hunger and instead its...like a music festival campground
> There are speakers, musicians, art walls. I took a group pic for a bunch of black guys last night and they were so proud of what was built because they felt like they fought for it, which in a sense, they did.