We Keep Us Safe: The Standoff

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🗓️ 18 June 2026

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EPISODE 2: In the summer of 2020, protests are happening all across the country. But Seattle is different. A confrontation between protestors and police outside a precinct leads to the birth of CHOP. A thousand miles away, Antonio Mays Jr. hears about what’s happening in Seattle. He was shot and killed there three weeks later.

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0:00.0	A heads up before we start.
0:01.5	This episode contains explicit language.
0:04.4	You'll also hear intense audio of confrontations between protesters and police, including
0:09.8	the sound of flashbangs and other loud booming noises.
0:16.5	Previously on, we keep us safe.
0:18.5	More shots fired.
0:20.0	More shots fired. More shots fired. More shots fired. More shots fired.
0:22.1	A protest becomes a crime scene.
0:24.2	When you come in shooting, you get shot back.
0:27.1	We can hear what happens next, the fatal shooting of Antonio.
0:31.0	But we can't see it.
0:32.2	I should have some answers. I should have some closure.
0:35.4	How did a protest for black lives end up killing a black teenager?
0:40.4	He wanted to join the protest against police brutality.
0:43.5	This is a real-life black movement that was going down in his lifetime.
0:58.3	The last time, Antonio Mays's senior saw his son was in the early morning hours of June 23, 2020.
1:05.1	Later that morning, Antonio Mays Jr. was gone.
1:09.4	The only trace of him was a note
1:11.6	tucked into the handle of a fridge in the family's garage.
1:16.9	It said that he was going to make me proud.
1:22.2	He said he was going to go accomplish something.
1:27.3	Antonio Sr. filed a missing person's report right away.
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