The father of a teen fatally shot in Seattle’s Capitol Hill Organized Protest zone in 2020 has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the city for encouraging “lawlessness to reign,” new court papers show.
Antonio Mays Jr., 16, and a 14-year-old boy were shot by makeshift security in the lawless autonomous zone on June 29, 2020, as they tried to flee in a white Jeep.
The CHOP zone was “abandoned without a working plan to provide essential services,” leading to a botched effort by paramedics to reach Mays — and a late police response that allowed for crime-scene tampering, the suit from Antonio Mays Sr. charges.
The suit names the city, county, state and others.
[Everyone who lived in the CHOP/CHAZ should sue the city for dereliction of duty and unlawful imprisonment. Hefty judgments and settlements would discourage later cowardice. — Ed]
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