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New records and videos released ahead of a Nov. 3 trial appear to contradict Seattle officials’ and protesters’ narratives about the unsolved killing of a Black teenager that led to the end of the Capitol Hill Organized Protest.

Significant questions about the death of 16-year-old Antonio Mays Jr. remain an unhealed wound from the summer of 2020, when police blasted protesters with crowd-control weapons, clouds of tear gas rolled through residential neighborhoods and hundreds of activists, gawkers, unsheltered people and thrill-seekers occupied eight square bl

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