Seattle mayor’s office scrambling to retrieve months of deleted text messages Gary Horcher
Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan’s office is actively working to retrieve several months of missing and deleted text messages, which are considered potential evidence in a federal lawsuit against the city of Seattle, according to the mayor’s office.
The suit accuses the mayor and the city of abandoning the CHOP (Capitol Hill Organized Protest) zone last summer from law enforcement, essentially making a portion of Capitol Hill off-limits for first responders to enter the area and try and save the life of 19-year-old Lorenzo Anderson after he had been shot there on a night in late June.
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On June 20, Anderson was visiting CHOP the self-declared autonomous zone in which police cleared the department’s East Precinct and surrounding areas, according to The Seattle Times when he ran into another teen identified as Marcel Long. Shown on surveillance video and described by witnesses, a scuffle ensued with others pulling the young men apart. Long allegedly then pulled a handgun and shot Anderson several times.
Anderson graduated just a day prior to his death from an alternative youth program, The Seattle Times report.
On June 8, the police department withdrew their forces and left behind an East Precinct on Capitol Hill district.
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Seattle Police, Paramedics Left Teen To Die In Lawless Autonomous Zone: Lawsuit
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A 19-year-old was shot several times in June 2020 right outside of Seattle’s Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP) area
A new lawsuit alleged paramedics were minutes away from the dying teenager but did not help him
The autonomous zone was formed amid Black Lives Matter protests after the police murder of George Floyd
Seattle paramedics have been accused of negligence after allegedly leaving a 19-year-old teenager shot inside the city s lawless, autonomous zone to die despite being minutes away from the victim, court papers revealed.
Authorities were instantly called at around 2:19 a.m. after Lorenzo Anderson was shot several times on June 20, 2020, right outside of the city s Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP) zone, the New York Post reported, citing three Notices of Claims filed Wednesday by a law firm representing Anderson s estate.