How an anti-police violence protest ended in a teen’s death

CHOP protesters stage a demonstration outside the Seattle Police Department's East Precinct on June 22, 2020.

In the summer of 2020, sixteen-year-old Antonio Mays Jr. traveled a thousand miles to be part of the racial justice movement. He arrived in Seattle during the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest, known as CHOP. Less than a week later, he was shot and killed there. The case remains unsolved.

Today on The Sunday Story, we bring you the first episode of a new series from NPR’s Embedded podcast that investigates Mays’ death.


This episode of The Sunday Story was produced by Ben Rappaport with support from Andrew Mambo. 

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