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The most threatening situations I’ve been in were the armed occupation of CHAZ and the Lincoln State incident in DC that is depicted on the cover of the book. If they had identified me in CHAZ, it could have gone bad. Other reporters who went undercover but were unmasked, as well as a Christian street preacher, were attacked and badly beaten by gang members and Antifa thugs. In CHAZ we were frequently around the armed barricade guards and thankfully our cover always held, and we knew how to blend in enough with the lingo and basic identity information. COVID actually helped in that walking around masked both day and night did not draw our team any undue attention. Several nights after we got out, those same armed groups shot up a pair of kids inside CHAZ. There ended up being 5 shootings on 4 separate occasions between the guards and local criminal gangs that operated within the zone after dark.
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