CHOP trial begins: Seattle ‘abandoned Antonio Mays Jr.,’ lawyer says

David Gutman / The Seattle Times

December 11, 2025 / 11:02 am

On the first day of a trial scrutinizing Seattle's actions during 2020's racial justice protests, a lawyer for the family of 16-year-old Antonio Mays Jr., who was killed at the Capitol Hill Organized Protest, argued that he died because Seattle police, paramedics and emergency officials failed to respond appropriately after he was shot.

"The City of Seattle abandoned Antonio Mays Jr.," Evan Oshan said Wednesday during opening statements. Oshan is representing the teen's father, Antonio Mays Sr., in the civil lawsuit against the city that seeks unspecified damages.

Antonio Jr. had come to Seattle from his Southern California home just a week before he was

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