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wherever you get your podcasts. Good afternoon from the KUOW Newsroom. This is Seattle now. I'm Paige Browning with a roundup of today's top stories. It's Thursday, January 29th.

Starting with some big legal news that just dropped, a jury has awarded more than $30 million to the father of a teenager who was shot and killed in Seattle's

CHOPP protest zone. Will James reports from the downtown courthouse.

16-year-old Antonio Mays Jr. was killed in late June 2020. He and another teen were in a stolen

Jeep when witnesses say, CHOP security volunteers opened fire. Over the past several weeks, the trial focused on

whether Mays might have survived eight gunshot wounds, including one to the head, if police and

ambulances got him help more quickly. The jury deliberated here for nearly three weeks before deciding

the city was negligent in its response to the shooting. The case did not tackle

broader questions, like whether the city was liable for allowing CHOP to form in the first

place and persist for three weeks after Seattle police abandoned their East Precinct. A judge

ruled those questions couldn't be considered. May's shooting remains unsolved. Without any arrests, this trial could stand

as the only public airing of the facts of that night. Will James, KOWW News.

Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson has issued a directive today to prohibit federal immigration officers

from doing enforcement on city property. That will immediately prevent civil immigration

enforcement in city parks, parking lots, garages, and the Seattle Center. Wilson says there's no

indication of an imminent surge in federal agents in Seattle, but says preparation is critical given the,

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