A significant number of the people involved with CHOP now believe it was bait that they fell for, fwiw. SPD went out of their way to create fake reports of chud attacks, they used the distraction of the folks involved with CHOP to run sweeps away from CHOP, increasing the density of people living in Cal Anderson to the point where problems were inevitable. All of that led to the shootings there. Rather than forcing the news to talk about police violence, the news was able to talk about nasty, gross CHAZ with its violence and unsanitary conditions.