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Antonio Mays Jr. (C) with his father in a file photograph. (Courtesy of Antonio Mays Sr.) The city of Seattle is facing a fresh lawsuit over city officials’ treatment of the autonomous zone that sprang up there in the summer of 2020.
Multiple people were killed in or near the zone, which police officers fled after barricades were erected by radical activists following the murder of George Floyd in Minnesota.
Lorenzo Anderson was the first. He was shot dead on June 20, 2020. It took 30 minutes for first responders to reach him.
Seattle recently agreed to pay $500,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by Anderson’s father. Now relatives of another man gunned down are taking action.
Antonio Mays Jr., 16, was shot on June 29, 2020. Police detectives did not reach the scene until nearly five hours later, according to a claim filed by his family. By that time, according to news reports, the crime scene had been disturbed.
“Through their actions and inactions, the city of Seattle, Seattle agencies, Seattle employees, the County of King, the State of Washington, their agents and elected officials are responsible for the preventable and predictable death of Antonio Mays, Jr. in the early hours of June 29, 2020,” the suit says.
Those named either did not respond to requests for comment or could not be reached. ‘Summer of Love’
Mays Jr. traveled from California, where he and his father had a barbeque sauce business, to join protests in Washington state.“He went to Seattle to participate in the civil rights movement,” Evan Oshan, who is representing the family, told The Epoch Times.“He had a job, he had a future with money. He wasn’t just some thug on the street. He went to be involved in the civil rights movement in Seattle when he was greeted with this madness […]
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