Focus: We Keep Us Safe

We Keep Us Safe: Circles of Silence

October 15, 2026·48 min·7-min readnarrativetrue crime
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The final episode of We Keep Us Safe investigates the 2020 killing of 16-year-old Antonio Mays Jr. during Seattle’s CHOP protest zone, revealing how systemic failures, narrative distortion, and a compromised police investigation left his father, Antonio Sr., without answers — even after

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Antonio Mays Jr.Antonio Mays Jr.SteveSydney BrownstoneWill JamesDavid GutmanRashilah LevinOmari SalisburyAdrian DiazJenny Durkan

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Civil Rights HistoryCriminal JusticeInvestigative JournalismLong Form JournalismRacial JusticeTrue CrimeUs Politics

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