New Seattle CHOP videos contradict city’s narrative in unsolved killing

Sydney Brownstone / The Seattle Times

David Gutman / The Seattle Times

Will James

October 26, 2025 / 6:03 am

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 Occupied 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 blocks of Capitol Hill after officers abandone

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