A teen was killed at a Seattle protest. New video evidence shows what really happened

An eighteen-month investigation by The Seattle Times, KUOW, and NPR's Embedded podcast, drawing on more than a dozen videos from that night, has produced the most comprehensive account yet of a fatal shooting at a Seattle protest, NPR News reports. It traces how a Black teenager who had come to join what the investigation calls the civil rights movement of his generation was killed in a zone police had abandoned, by a protest movement that believed he was a threat. Published Sunday, the report focuses on reconstructing exactly how that chaotic scene unfolded.

Listen to this story

Hear this and more stories in a personalized audio briefing.

Open The Chonkerton