Family of teen killed in CHOP zone: Seattle enabled danger

SEATTLE (AP) — Two Black teenagers were killed in June 2020 shootings amid Seattle’s racial justice protests. The Seattle Times and KUOW report a new tort claim filed with the city of Seattle Monday alleges that city leadership should have recognized its failures to provide legally obligated emergency services to protesters demonstrating in the Capitol Hill Organized Protest zone. If they had, the claim states, the death of 16-year-old Antonio Mays Jr. might have been prevented. It wasn’t until after this incident that the city intervened at the protest zone. The tort claim was filed with the city by Mays’ family. A spokesperson for the city declined to comment.