New video found featuring victim of unsolved CHOP killing

It’s June 26th, 2020, and a group of protesters stands in the midst of the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest. They’re talking to another group of people, including a city employee, about city sanitation workers getting access to the area.

Towards the front of the group stands a 16 year old boy, wearing a grey baseball cap, a hoodie, and a surgical mask. He taps a protest organizer’s shoulder, so they’ll know he wants to speak.

What you’re hearing is some of the last known footage of Antonio Mays Jr before he was shot and killed, just days later, in the CHOP zone. 

That death contributed to the end of the Occupied Protest in 2020.

The video - was livestreamed by Omari Salisbury of Converge Media, and remained on Youtube all these years. The fact that it shows Antonio was only recently rediscovered, shortly before a civil trial that could shed more light on Antonio’s death .

That civil trial, stemming from a lawsuit the teen’s father filed against the City of Seattle, is set to begin this week.

Guests:

Omari Salisbury, founder of Converge Media

Will James, KUOW reporter and producer

Relevant Links:

Converge Media: Reflections on the Rediscovered Dignity of Antonio Mays Jr.

Converge Media: The Tape: Rediscovering Humanity in the Shadow of CHOP

KUOW: Victim of unsolved Seattle CHOP killing featured in newly unearthed video

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