The lawsuit alleges that the city officials encouraged "lawlessness to reign" and failed to provide essential services, leading to the death of Mays Jr. and a 14-year-old boy who was shot by CHAZ "security" guards on Jun 29th, 2020, while trying to escape while being barricaded by "Chop Cops who were under the direction of Seattle City officials."
The lawsuit, filed on Thursday in a Washington court, claims that the CHAZ medics attempted to provide aid to Mays Jr. and decided to transport him out of CHAZ for emergency assistance when Seattle Paramedics failed to provide the much-needed support. However, by the time they got Mays Jr. to the car, he had died, and the paramedics made no attempts to resuscitate him. The suit alleges that the zone was "abandoned without a working plan to provide essential services, creating a danger." Additionally, "despite knowledge of the violence, chaos, danger, and potential danger, Seattle leaders failed Antonio and encouraged lawlessness to reign."
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The suit alleges that Mays Jr. "was lured" into the zone by then-Mayor Durkan's "positive statements about the area. Sadly, Antonio soon realized that there was nothing peaceful about CHOP." The suit also claims that delayed response by police allowed for tampering with the crime scene, and even though the alleged assailant was caught on video almost three years later, there has still been no arrest in the case.
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The Post Millennial revealed in 2021 that Daniel Alan Baker of Tallahassee, Florida, was suspected by zone activists and private security hired by residents and businesses in the zone of being one of the shooters. Following the shooting, Baker fled the area, began moving around the country from city to city, and joined other protests around the country, according to the FBI. Baker, who actively participated in multiple demonstrations throughout the United States last summer, has used social media to promote, encourage, and educate his followers on hindering and debilitating law enforcement officers. Before the November Presidential election, Baker said on social media, "God I hope the right tries a coup Nov 3rd cuz I'm so f------ down to slay enemies again."
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In March of 2021, Baker was found guilty and sentenced to 44 months in jail for attempting to rally activists to surround pro-Trump protesters with guns at the Florida state Capitol in January of that year. Baker served in the Army in 2006 and 2007 before being dishonorably discharged. He went AWOL (Absent With-Out Leave) before his unit deployed to Iraq. From 2008 to 2017, Baker was unemployed, homeless, and in Tallahassee, occasionally working as a security guard.
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In 2017, Baker joined a militia group in Syria, the People's Protection Units (YPG), a sub-affiliate of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which was designated a foreign terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department. The group combines revolutionary socialism, Marxism, and Leninism and attempts to create a communist Kurdistan. While in Seattle's autonomous zone, Baker was interviewed for an article about the occupation and stated, "I told them, if they really wanted a revolution, we needed to get AK's and start making bombs. No one listened to me." While in the zone, Baker posted pictures of himself as a sniper and said, "If they are going to shoot and lynch us for protesting unarmed and peacefully, then we might as well die fighting."
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At the time of the Mays' fatal shooting, Baker claimed to provide security for the zone and serve as a "medic" who administered aid to the gunshot victims. Baker claimed in a now-deleted Twitter account that the teens in the vehicle shot at him and other zone security members but then added that he tried to de-escalate the situation, which he said was started by the occupants of the vehicles throwing fireworks. Gunshots from various types of weapons can be heard in multiple videos of the shooting, according to witnesses and multiple streamers, including Converge Media, zone security fired at the vehicle. Some zone security guards were even caught on video and audio in the aftermath of the shooting mocking the incident. One person can even say, "What, you're nauseous? I'm the one who killed him."
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Evan Oshan, the father's lawyer, alleged that Seattle officials should have known how dangerous the area had become, especially after 19-year-old Lorenzo Anderson was shot in the zone nine days before Mays Jr. and died because paramedics took too long to respond. Oshan cited in the lawsuit a federal judge imposing sanctions against the city for deleting thousands of text messages between Seattle officials, including Durkan, former police chief Carmen Best, and Fire Chief Harold Scoggins during the armed Antifa and BLM occupation of the zone. The ruling led to the city settling a lawsuit with business owners for $3.6 million who claimed the deadly autonomous area violated their constitutional rights and caused damage to their property.
The city has settled millions of dollars in claims due to the zone, including with the father of Lorenzo Anderson, the first shooting victim during the occupation. Mays Sr. said, "All of the city officials that contributed to my son's death need to be held accountable. This lawsuit and complaint are not about money; it's about getting justice for my son."
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