A Murder in CHAZ - Moderate liberals and the media helped the far left cover up the murder of an unarmed 16-year-old, and still no one has been held accountable.
In the early hours of June 29, 2020, in a popular downtown neighborhood of Seattle, an African-American 16-year-old named Antonio Mays, Jr. was publicly lynched in one of the most well-documented terrorist murders in American history. Following his execution, his killers destroyed evidence to avoid arrest. Shell casings were retrieved and disposed of; the bullet-riddled Jeep he’d stolen was ransacked; and no one involved in the murder spoke to the police on behalf of a murdered child.
After the killing, the injustice of Antonio Mays, Jr.’s death was compounded by cowardly city leaders who cared more about shielding themselves from repercussions than fulfilling their oaths of office. Seattle itself engaged in a systematic, politically motivated cover-up in which public records were illegally destroyed and the city was issued crushing sanctions by a federal judge, who stated unequivocally that “the city’s conduct exceeds gross negligence” and officials acted “in complete disregard of their legal obligation to preserve relevant evidence.”
One might wonder how it is that most readers have never heard of Antonio Mays, Jr. This is the type of story that should start journalists salivating: a brutal murder; an unsolved mystery begging for investigation; evidence destruction by corrupt government officials; villains begging for righteous condemnation; and the sick irony of a black teenager shot in the back by people who had allegedly gathered in defense of black life.
And yet there was no breathless CNN coverage. The American media spent weeks whitewashing his killers and denying the threat they posed, then buried the story, concluding it wasn’t politically useful enough for them to investigate. Antonio Mays, Jr. was betrayed by the American press because the story of his murder ran contrary to their political preferences. Pervasive groupthink and the rejection of basic journalistic standards allowed the horrific public murder of a 16-year-old boy to go effectively unreported.
This isn’t the story of a teenager dying. It’s the story of how every major institution in America failed him before he died and continues to fail him.
After the killing, the injustice of Antonio Mays, Jr.’s death was compounded by cowardly city leaders who cared more about shielding themselves from repercussions than fulfilling their oaths of office. Seattle itself engaged in a systematic, politically motivated cover-up in which public records were illegally destroyed and the city was issued crushing sanctions by a federal judge, who stated unequivocally that “the city’s conduct exceeds gross negligence” and officials acted “in complete disregard of their legal obligation to preserve relevant evidence.”
One might wonder how it is that most readers have never heard of Antonio Mays, Jr. This is the type of story that should start journalists salivating: a brutal murder; an unsolved mystery begging for investigation; evidence destruction by corrupt government officials; villains begging for righteous condemnation; and the sick irony of a black teenager shot in the back by people who had allegedly gathered in defense of black life.
And yet there was no breathless CNN coverage. The American media spent weeks whitewashing his killers and denying the threat they posed, then buried the story, concluding it wasn’t politically useful enough for them to investigate. Antonio Mays, Jr. was betrayed by the American press because the story of his murder ran contrary to their political preferences. Pervasive groupthink and the rejection of basic journalistic standards allowed the horrific public murder of a 16-year-old boy to go effectively unreported.
This isn’t the story of a teenager dying. It’s the story of how every major institution in America failed him before he died and continues to fail him.
And to some even pointing to the evidence of malfeasance is an act of “white supremacy”.......somehow.
It’s going to get worse.
We are done as a nation.....put a fork in us.