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Seattle ordered to pay over $30 million for fatal shooting of teen in 2020 protest
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The Independent
Read our Privacy noticeA jury on Thursday ordered the city of Seattle to pay more than $30 million over the unsolved, fatal shooting of a teenager at the “ Capitol Hill Occupied Protest " zone, which arose in 2020 following the murder of George Floyd.
Because first responders wouldn’t come to the protest zone, witnesses tried to bring Mays by private vehicle to get medical care from paramedics.
Seattle was ordered to pay $4 million to Mays' estate and $26 million to his father, Antonio Mays Sr., who became emotional and hugged his lawyer as the verdict was announced.
Racial justice demonstrators enraged about Floyd's killing by Minneapolis police took over eight square blocks in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood in June 2020, creating a protest zone called “CHOP."
Mays was shot in a stolen white Jeep near the protest zone with a 14-year-old also in the vehicle.