Family Suing Seattle Over Son’s Death in Autonomous Zone

Antonio Mays Jr. (C) with his father in a file photograph. Courtesy of Antonio Mays Sr.

The city of Seattle is facing a fresh lawsuit over city officials’ treatment of the autonomous zone that sprang up there in the summer of 2020.

Multiple people were killed in or near the zone, which police officers fled after barricades were erected by radical activists following the murder of George Floyd in Minnesota.