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Hours of video analyzed in an 18-month investigation reveal what really happened the night Antonio Mays Jr. was shot at the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest, and how protesters mistook him for a threat. n.pr/4pPMxeG

n.prNew video evidence upends the unsolved killing of a Black teen at a Seattle protestHours of video analyzed in an 18-month investigation reveal what really happened the night Antonio Mays Jr. was shot at the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest, and how protesters mistook him for a threat.

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Chromata
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What confuses me most is the nature of the stolen white van. Who did it originally belong to? Why did the driver pursue the Silver jeep before the shots fired? Where were the 3 occupants of the van intending to go before reaching the precinct?

Will James
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Thanks a lot for reading. This story is a summary of just some findings from our investigation. We get much deeper into the theft of the white Jeep, and where it went that night, in the podcast we just put out: www.npr.org/2026/06/04/g...

npr.orgEmbedded: "We Keep Us Safe" from NPR, KUOW and The Seattle TimesIn the summer of 2020, sixteen-year-old Antonio Mays Jr. traveled a thousand miles to join the racial justice movement of his generation. He arrived in Seattle during the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest...
Chromata
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After looking into the transcripts, just tragic. The one part of it though, "play stupid games, you win stupid prizes". From just three kids doing a joy ride in a stolen van. And the one kid that could've stopped his friends before what transpired after. But understandably the kid wouldn't've known.

Tony Spaghetti
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And SPD watched from a few blocks away with binoculars while all the evidence was being disturbed. SPD just bad at their jobs acting like they're doing to community a service by being bad at their jobs.

DT
@d1puck1t.bsky.social

The police were loathsome, but the article makes it damn clear that protesters killed a kid and spent years dragging his name through the mud rather than admit they did anything wrong. We need accountability, not more efforts to redirect blame.

DT
@d1puck1t.bsky.social

1. Start a protest in response to the brutal callous murder of a black man by police that claimed it was his own fault. 2. Create volunteer police force to protect the protest. 3. Volunteers kill a black teen, claim it was his own fault. It's all so exhausting