Seattle cops blocked by protest mob

Shooting erupted early Saturday inside Seattle’s no-cop “autonomous zone,” leaving one person dead and another critically wounded — and police fuming that they were stopped from responding to the emergency by a human chain of protesters.

In chaotic scenes captured on video, police with riot shields attempted to enter the so-called Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, or CHAZ, shortly after bullets flew at 2:30 a.m., but were stopped at the six-block camp’s border by protesters linking arms.

“It’s the summer of chaos,” Mike Solan, president of the Seattle Police Officers’ Guild, told Fox News Saturday. “Early this morning, that violence was raw and real . . . One of our community members lost their life, and police are still not allowed into that area and were prevented from providing that police service to the area to locate the victim and . . . to render aid.”

Both victims were driven by private vehicles to a local hospital, the Harborview Medical Center, a blog post said.

A high-ranking police source told The Post that cops were not only blocked from reaching the victims in the zone but were confronted by armed protesters at the hospital.

The source said cops also were stymied in investigating the crime scene, but early reports said police were inside the zone collecting shell casings.

A security employee working in the area reported seeing the shooter arrive in a black SUV, and a 911 caller told police a man left the vehicle toting a rifle in the early hours at the end of Juneteenth celebrations, a blog post said.

The fatal victim — a 19-year-old man — died on the way to the hospital, police said. The other — a male with wounds to the arm and chest — was in critical condition at Harborview’s ICU on Saturday, a hospital spokeswoman, Susan Gregg, told the Seattle Times.

Witnesses said protesters tried to give one of the victims CPR.

Police withdrew from the zone after receiving threats that the area’s precinct station would be torched on June 8.