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Podcast: News For Reasonable People
Episode: Seattle PAYS $30 MILLION for CHOP — Jury BLASTS City Over Teen’s Death
Description: Seattle's 'Summer of Love' just cost taxpayers $30 million. Remember when the city abandoned a police precinct, created a no-cop zone, and Mayor Jenny Durkan thought CHOP would be a beautiful experiment in progressive utopia? Well, 16-year-old Antonio Mays Jr. paid for that genius with his life. The jury agreed: the city was negligent, barricades blocked emergency services, and it took FIVE HOURS for police to reach an active shooting scene because leadership decided cops were the problem. Two teenagers dead, multiple assaults, and a completely contaminated crime scene later—has anyone in city leadership apologized or faced consequences? Of co...