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A Tort Claim Alleges That Seattle Leadership Failed to Provide Emergency Services to Protestors
Two Black teenagers were killed in June 2020 shootings amid Seattle’s racial justice protests and a new tort claim alleges that city leadership should have recognized its failures to provide legally obligated emergency services to protesters demonstrating in the Capitol Hill Organized Protest zone.
If they had, the claim filed Monday says, the death of 16-year-old Antonio Mays Jr. might have been prevented, The Seattle Times and KUOW reported.
It was not until after this incident that the city intervened at the protest zone, closing Cal Anderson Park and arresting more than 40 people. Those moves came after weeks of protest, tear gas assaults by police and the three-week desertion of Seattle’s East Police Precinct.
