18-Month Investigation Reveals How Black Teen Was Killed at Seattle Protest

In the summer of 2020, an 18-year-old Black teenager traveled to Seattle's Capitol Hill protest zone seeking to be part of a movement against racial injustice — and was killed by the very people standing beside him. An 18-month investigation by NPR, The Seattle Times, and KUOW has now reconstructed, through more than a dozen videos, the chaotic sequence of misidentification and fear that ended his life. His death asks a question that movements and cities alike must sit with: when formal authority withdraws and collective purpose hardens into survival logic, who bears responsibility for what fi