In a resounding rebuke to urban chaos, a Seattle jury's $30 million verdict against the city for abandoning law and order in the 2020 CHOP zone now looms as a costly cautionary tale for Minneapolis, where protesters have erected barricades and declared an "autonomous zone" amid immigration enforcement.
The judgment, handed down in late January by a King County jury, held Seattle liable for the wrongful death of 16-year-old Antonio Mays Jr., who was fatally shot in the Capitol Hill Organized Protest zone — a self-declared autonomous area that emerged during the George Floyd unrest.
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