During the summer of 2020, a 16-year-old named Antonio Mays Jr. made a journey of a thousand miles to stand alongside a generation demanding racial justice. His destination was Seattle, Washington, where demonstrators had established what became known as the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest — or CHOP.
Within less than a week of his arrival, Antonio was shot and killed inside the protest zone. He was just 16 years old.
Years later, the case remains unsolved. No one has been held accountable for the death of the teenager who traveled so far to be part of a historic moment.
