If you recognize our description of the person suspected of firing the fatal shots (in Episode 8): Signal: 707-760-9584 Email: wjames@kuow.org
Sydney Brownstone
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Investigative reporter @theseattletimes. Mostly cat hair, married to @willjames. Email: sbrownstone@seattletimes.com
There's much more detail about what led to Antonio Mays' death and the identity of the suspected shooter in the podcast we made about this. The final episode just dropped. www.npr.org/2026/06/04/g...
Embedded: "We Keep Us Safe" from NPR, KUOW and The Seattle Times
In the summer of 2020, sixteen-year-old Antonio Mays Jr. traveled a thousand miles to join the racial justice movement of his generation. He arrived in Seattle during the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest...
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ellie lockhart (she/they)@eleanor.lockhart.contact · 3d agoI highly recommend reading this if you want to know exactly how a revolution in this country would go, who would be fighting it, and the moral character of the kinds of leftist who arm themselves www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Hours of video analyzed in an 18-month investigation reveal what really happened the night Antonio Mays Jr. was shot at the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest, and how protesters mistook him for a threat. n.pr/4pPMxeG
New video evidence upends the unsolved killing of a Black teen at a Seattle protest
Hours of video analyzed in an 18-month investigation reveal what really happened the night Antonio Mays Jr. was shot at the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest, and how protesters mistook him for a threat.
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relieved this is getting thorough reporting again www.npr.org/2026/07/31/g...
A teen was killed at a Seattle protest. New video evidence shows what really happened
An 18-month investigation by The Seattle Times, KUOW and NPR's Embedded podcast and a review of more than a dozen videos from the night of the shooting reveal the most comprehensive view to date of ho...
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NPR, the Seattle Times, and KUOW did a very good story on the CHAZ/CHOP murder. It's the first mainstream media story I can remember that includes a mention of the shooter telling people to pick up the shells from the bullets he'd fired: www.npr.org/2026/07/31/g...
A teen was killed at a Seattle protest. New video evidence shows what really happened
An 18-month investigation by The Seattle Times, KUOW and NPR's Embedded podcast and a review of more than a dozen videos from the night of the shooting reveal the most comprehensive view to date of ho...
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Baby Saja@babysajaboy.bsky.social · 3d agodidn’t they claim this was a magat plant/gen (I did not live in seattle and only saw second hand accounts of CHAZ/CHOP
if you listen to one podcast this year, make it WE KEEP US SAFE by @willjames.bsky.social / @sydbrownstone.bsky.social this is a hard, complicated story to tell. will, sydney and david gutman do an incredible service for us all putting the pieces together. www.npr.org/2026/06/04/g...
Embedded: "We Keep Us Safe" from NPR, KUOW and The Seattle Times
In the summer of 2020, sixteen-year-old Antonio Mays Jr. traveled a thousand miles to join the racial justice movement of his generation. He arrived in Seattle during the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest...
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The killing of 16 yo Antonio Mays Jr. at CHOP has been unsolved for 6 years. Ep 6 has one of the biggest reveals from our year+ investigation: an interview with a witness police never spoke to who had one of the closest views of what happened that night. Listen: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
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Documentary Podcast · Weekly Series · NPR's home for audio documentaries brings untold stories to light through deeply reported narrative series. We go to hidden corners of the headlines to explore wh...
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Episode 2 of We Keep Us Safe is out today. Here, we trace the origins of Seattle's CHOP zone in the early days of the 2020 protests... and how decisions early on set the stage for Antonio Mays Jr.'s death three weeks later. Listen to it on @npr.org's Embedded podcast: www.npr.org/2026/06/11/n...
We Keep Us Safe: The Standoff : Embedded
EPISODE 2: In the summer of 2020, protests are happening all across the country. But Seattle is different. A confrontation between protestors and police outside a precinct leads to the birth of CHOP. ...
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A new podcast series from The Seattle Times, KUOW and NPR's "Embedded" investigates the unsolved killing that led to the end of 2020's Capitol Hill Occupied Protest.
New podcast on Seattle CHOP deadly shooting features eyewitnesses and unseen evidence
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Today, the results of our investigation start coming out, week by week, on @npr.org's Embedded podcast. It’s called We Keep Us Safe. www.npr.org/2026/06/11/n...
We Keep Us Safe: Who Killed Antonio Mays Jr.? : Embedded
EPISODE 1: When 16-year-old Antonio Mays Jr. was shot and killed inside Seattle's CHOP protest zone in 2020, protesters claimed self-defense. For years, that version of events went unchallenged. Repor...
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As reporters who covered 2020 in Seattle, this story haunted us. Black Lives Matter protesters said self-appointed protest security shot a Black teen in self-defense — that he was involved with a gang, attacking the protest. Some praised his killing online: “What a shot!" We always had questions.
Six years ago, a 16-year-old was shot and killed at a Black Lives Matter occupy-style protest in Seattle. Early reports from witnesses and protesters said the shooter(s) were self-appointed protest security defending the protest from an attack.
‘We Keep Us Safe’ — NPR podcast series investigates deadly shooting that ended CHOP
‘We Keep Us Safe’ — NPR podcast series investigates deadly shooting that ended CHOP
The unsolved deadly shooting of a San Diego teenager during the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest will be the subject of a new investigative podcast series from National Public Radio. Meanwhile, the city is seeking to appeal a $30 million jury … Continue reading →
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NPR's award-winning audio documentary podcast Embedded is partnering with The Seattle Times and KUOW to launch We Keep Us Safe, a new series investigating the unsolved homicide of Antonio Mays Jr. The 16-year-old Black teenager was shot and killed inside Seattle's CHOP.
Embedded series 'We Keep Us Safe' investigates teen's killing in 2020 Black Lives Matter protests
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lol Scott Pelley and the old guard at 60 Minutes eat people like this alive for breakfast.
Callers to Washington state’s driver’s license agency who select automated service in Spanish are instead hearing an AI voice speaking English with a strong Spanish accent.
Callers to Washington state hotline press 2 for Spanish and get accented AI English instead
Callers to Washington state’s driver’s license agency who select automated service in Spanish are instead hearing an AI voice speaking English with a strong Spanish accent.
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Now give the student who turned down this job a column to talk about why. I bet it’s good.
Mike Hixenbaugh@mikehixenbaugh.com · 6mo agoThe Cleveland Plain Dealer: “Because we want reporters gathering information, these jobs are 100 percent reporting. We have an AI rewrite specialist who turns their material into drafts … By removing writing from reporters’ workloads, we’ve effectively freed up an extra workday for them each week.”
Jurors ruled that the City of Seattle must pay $30.5 million to the father and estate of Antonio Mays Jr., the 16-year-old reportedly slain by "CHOP security" in 2020 during the Seattle racial justice protests. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Seattle CHOP verdict: City must pay $30.5 million to family of slain teen
A King County jury found Seattle was negligent in its response to the fatal shooting of a teenager in the Capitol Hill Organized Protest zone in 2020.
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Here’s a gift link to this stunner Washpost story, quoting the 60 Minutes correspondent on the CECOT story, who accuses Bari Weiss of spiking the piece all because the Trump Administration wouldn’t comment. “Government silence is a statement, not a VETO.” wapo.st/3YL4T3D
‘60 Minutes’ correspondent says CBS’s Bari Weiss abruptly pulled segment on Trump deportations
CBS News pulled a ‘60 Minutes’ segment about a prison in El Salvador one day before it was set to air because the Trump administration declined to participate.
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My colleagues and I have interviewed dozens of people about the death of 16-year-old Antonio Mays Jr., reportedly shot by CHOP security. Themes we often hear: He was up to no good. Security was protecting us. Here’s a video of Mays 3 days before his death. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
New footage of teen killed at Seattle CHOP discovered on eve of trial
The clip was in hundreds of hours of video livestreamed by Omari Salisbury, one of the first reporters on the scene after Antonio Mays Jr.’s unsolved shooting.
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Years ago, my colleagues at Business Insider and I tracked YouTuber “cancellation” arcs. What we found is that for many entertainers, “cancellation” actually sets the stage for a redemption arc, one that can raise their profile higher than ever. It wasn’t career-ending. It was fuel.
"Some people in the industry don't think ethics and rules apply to them—due to their desire for power and influence, pursuit of ‘friendship’ with sources, or a combination of some or all of those things." - @karenho.bsky.social. www.thehandbasket.co/p/moral-rot-...
Moral rot in elite journalism is killing the whole field
The Nuzzi/RFK Jr. mess and the revelation of Epstein’s journo pals lay bare a profound moral absence at the heart of our free press.
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The Seattle Police Department's chief operating officer, Brian Maxey, and chief legal officer, Becca Boatright, were both sacked this morning. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Chief Shon Barnes fires top civilian leaders in Seattle police
The police department’s chief operating officer, Brian Maxey, and general counsel, Rebecca Boatright, were let go by Chief Shon Barnes, sources said.
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What began in the 1990s as a modest incentive meant to foster economic development in a nascent field became a billion-dollar windfall of questionable effectiveness.
Big Tech got a billion in tax breaks. What did WA get?
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Dozens of people were present at the killing of Antonio Mays Jr. at CHOP. Several people witnessed it. Someone knows who the shooters were. Talk to us. st.news/chopsurvey
Tell us about your experiences at CHOP
Five years on, we hope people will be willing to speak with us about what they witnessed at the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest. If you participated in the protests or policing, or you observed either f...
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5 yrs after a Black teen was killed at CHOP, city officials + some protesters say he was firing a gun before he was shot. There’s no evidence of that in videos we’ve reviewed, including those filed by city to defend itself in a lawsuit from the boy’s father. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
New Seattle CHOP videos contradict city’s narratives on teen death
A father’s civil suit reveals videos that could change how the public views the unsolved, highly politicized death of his son. A trial set for next week could be the public’s last chance for answers.
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