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Will Seattle officials use the same lawsuit defense they want to take away from police? Jonathan Turley, opinion contributor © Getty Images Will Seattle officials use the same lawsuit defense they want to take away from police? A year ago, Seattle was in the midst of what its mayor, Jenny Durkan, called a "summer of love" with the establishment of an "autonomous zone" called "Capitol Hill Occupied Protest," or "CHOP." Rioters took over a police station and were allowed to occupy an entire section of the city. At the time, I wrote that if someone sued over the resulting mayh...

Several people called 911 to report the June 20 shooting, records show. Fifteen minutes later, several police officers entered the protest zone and "were confronted by an aggressive and volatile crowd," according to documents filed against Marcel Long, 18, who was charged with first-degree murder. Anderson was transported by volunteer medics to Harborview Medical Center, where he died, according to the Seattle Fire Department. City medics had staged nearby, but authorities said the scene was too dangerous for them to enter without police securing the area, reports said. Mark Lindquist of the ...

SEATTLE (AP) — The mother of a 19-year-old Seattle man fatally shot during last...

Mother of 19-Year-Old Fatally Shot in Seattle’s ‘No Cop Zone’ Sues City Over Handling of ‘CHOP’ The mother of a young man who was gunned down last summer in Seattle’s autonomous zone, also known as “CHOP” (Capitol Hill Organized Protest)—has sued the city for its handling of the zone. Donnitta Sinclair, the mother of the victim, 19-year-old Horace Lorenzo Anderson, said in a federal civil-rights lawsuit officials’ negligence in allowing law enforcement to abandon the Seattle Police Department’s (SPD) East Precinct and surrounding areas invited “lawlessness and … a f...

City of Seattle sued for CHOP death KIRO 7 News Staff © Provided by KIRO Seattle A federal lawsuit was filed Thursday against the city of Seattle for the wrongful death of 19-year-old Lorenzo Anderson during the Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP) last summer. The lawsuit, filed on behalf of Anderson’s mother, Donnitta Sinclair, alleges that city officials created a dangerous environment and failed to help Anderson after he was shot. CHOP was the result of the Seattle Police Department abandoning the east precinct in Capitol Hill on June 8, 2020, when protesters used the...