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Friday, January 30, 2026

A jury has awarded the father of a teen who was shot and killed in the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP) zone in Seattle in 2020 approximately $30-million after finding the city was negligent in how it handled the weeks-long protest zone.

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After deliberating for 12 days, a King County jury has found that the city of Seattle was negligent in its emergency response to the fatal shooting of a teenager at the Capitol Hill Organized Protest, or CHOP, in 2020.

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-- KUOW Public Radio (@kuow.org) Jan 29, 2026 at 6:03 PM

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You know what words we didn't see from the left when talking about CHOP /CHAZ?

Secession or insurrection. The whole thing was glorified even by the mayor herself - it has a block party atmosphere that could leave to a summer of love.

#1 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-01-30 02:12 PM | Reply

You know what words we didn't see from the left when talking about CHOP /CHAZ?
Secession or insurrection. The whole thing was glorified even by the mayor herself - it has a block party atmosphere that could leave to a summer of love.

#1 | Posted by BellRinger

This is the SECOND case like this.

Would you like to know what happened to the first case where someone was shot in the CHOP zone? Appeals Court tossed it.

WHY?

The Law: To succeed on a state-created danger claim, a plaintiff must establish that (1) a state actor's affirmative actions created or exposed him to an actual, particularized danger [that he] would not otherwise have faced (2) that the injury he suffered was foreseeable, and (3) that the state actor was deliberately indifferent to the known danger.

The difference thus far is this case was filed in STATE court and the other was filed in FEDERAL COURT. Unfortunately, Washington common law mimics the Federal code and common law.

Basically it will be over in Appeals because the danger must be specific to the plaintiff, not just the public at large. And it has to be foreseeable, not just possible.

#2 | Posted by Sycophant at 2026-01-30 06:06 PM | Reply

Like that fat bald midget could understand a word of that. It is to laugh.

#3 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-01-30 07:20 PM | Reply

This is the SECOND case like this.

No its not ... this was tried/filed in 2023....


Basically it will be over in Appeals because the danger must be specific to the plaintiff, not just the public at large. And it has to be foreseeable, not just possible.
#2 | POSTED BY SYCOPHANT

This was the 1983 claim.

But the courts opined they should seek justice else where ...

And Sinclair or others harmed by his death may be able to bring state tort claims against the City. So while Sinclair may achieve justice for her son, the Due Process Clause is not the way to do so.
cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov

They did ... and won.

#4 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-01-30 08:38 PM | Reply

You know what words we didn't see from the left when talking about CHOP /CHAZ?
Secession or insurrection.
#1 | Posted by BellRinger

It wasn't a secession or an insurrection.
It was more like Occupy Wall Street.

It didn't ever occur to you to say Occupy Wall Street was a succession or an insurrection
Because J6 hadn't happened yet.

#5 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-30 11:12 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

It's getting too easy to shut you up, JeffJ.

I think you know it's not going well for Trump and ICE and the whole nation.

#6 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-30 11:53 PM | Reply

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