Seattle residents concerned about illegal street racing events over the weekend

SEATTLE — Seattle police are looking for the drivers involved in two different “street takeover” events over the weekend. They caused traffic jams and major concerns for people living and working nearby.

“Felt like chaos and you something you see at a frat party,” said Clay Church. 

A party that many in Seattle’s Belltown neighborhood didn’t want. “One hundred to 150 people out here with their cars essentially, drag racing, doing donuts,” said Church. “Kind of complete lawlessness, really.” 

That’s how Church described the scene of a street takeover held outside his apartment on the corner of 3rd Avenue and Clay Street early Sunday around 1 a.m. He saw people using

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