City of Seattle Loses Wrongful Death Lawsuit Over CHOP – Must Now Pay Millions in Damages

City of Seattle Loses Wrongful Death Lawsuit Over CHOP – Must Now Pay Millions in Damages

City of Seattle Loses Wrongful Death Lawsuit Over CHOP – Must Now Pay Millions in Damages
January 30, 2026

Screencap of YouTube video.

As you may recall, back in 2020 in the midst of the George Floyd riots, radical leftists in Seattle took over part of the city and named it the CHOP Zone.

It was an island of lawlessness in the city and the mayor at the time allowed it to go on unchecked for weeks.

At one point in the chaos, a young man was killed in the zone and emergency officials had trouble reaching the victim. His family sued the city and they just won their case. The city is now on the hook for millions.

The Spokesman-Review reported:

Seattle CHOP verdict: City must pay $30.5 million to family of slain teen

After deliberating for 12 days, a King County jury has found that the city of Seattle was negligent in its emergency response to the fatal shooting of a teenager at the Capitol Hill Organized Protest, or CHOP, in 2020.

Jurors decided to answer “yes” to two questions the court posed to them: whether the city was negligent in its response to the shooting and, if so, whether this negligence caused Antonio Mays Jr.’s death. The city of Seattle will have to pay Antonio Mays Sr., the teen’s father, more than $30.5 million in damages.

The jury awarded about $4 million to the estate of Antonio Mays Jr. and about $26 million to Antonio Mays Sr.

Mays Sr. became emotional and hugged his lawyer as the verdict was announced.

The monthlong civil trial was the first public airing of facts around the June 29, 2020, shooting at CHOP, the protest zone that took over eight square blocks of Capitol Hill and lasted three weeks after Seattle police abandoned their East Precinct during the nationwide racial justice protests following the murder of George Floyd.

You can see a video of the ruling being read below:

Remember when the mayor said that it would be like a summer of love? Do you think she still stands by that statement?

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TMZ Host Has Possibly the Dumbest Take of All on Arrest of Don Lemon (VIDEO)

TMZ Host Has Possibly the Dumbest Take of All on Arrest of Don Lemon (VIDEO)

TMZ Host Has Possibly the Dumbest Take of All on Arrest of Don Lemon (VIDEO)
January 30, 2026

Screencap of Twitter/X video.

There have been plenty of dumb takes by the media over the arrest of Don Lemon, for being part of the mob that invaded a church last week, but Harvey Levin of TMX might win the prize for the dumbest take.

Levin asked if this would change democracy forever. Naturally, Levin tried to make this all about Trump being a dictator and made references to the Nazis.

The people who make up our media are so predictable and ridiculous.

Mediaite reported:

TMZ’s Harvey Levin Blasts Trump Over Don Lemon Arrest: ‘This Is the Playbook That Dictator’s Use’

TMZ founder Harvey Levin trashed the arrest and indictment of former CNN anchor Don Lemon by President Donald Trump’s Justice Department as “a ridiculous assault on democracy” and a move straight out of the dictator’s “playbook.”…

Speaking from TMZ’s studio in a recorded statement published on the outlet’s website Friday, Levin torched the charges and the move as “dictator-like”:

So the Trump administration wonders why people are saying that they are trying to form a dictatorship. Well, look at the landscape – arresting Don Lemon, who covered a protest in Minneapolis, is just insane, ridiculous, dictator-like. This is the playbook that dictators use to destroy democracies and take the will of the people away. It is as simple as that.

It’s a ridiculous assault on democracy. The Trump administration should be ashamed of itself, but they’re not. And they will continue to do this. And they are going after journalists. They’re getting search warrants for their homes. It is obvious what’s happening in this country, people. Look at what is happening. You’re gonna look back in two years, if somebody doesn’t stand up to them, and I know people are now, but you’re gonna back in to years and say, ‘Wow, we didn’t see that coming!’

Here’s the video:

People were quick to remind TMZ of how they behaved after the Charlie Kirk assassination.

They have zero self-awareness. They don’t care how hypocritical they look because it never even dawns on them that they could be perceived that way.

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OF COURSE: CNN’s Brain Stelter Goes Into Overdrive Mode to Defend Don Lemon After Arrest, Claims He Was Doing Journalism (VIDEO)

OF COURSE: CNN’s Brain Stelter Goes Into Overdrive Mode to Defend Don Lemon After Arrest, Claims He Was Doing Journalism (VIDEO)

OF COURSE: CNN’s Brain Stelter Goes Into Overdrive Mode to Defend Don Lemon After Arrest, Claims He Was Doing Journalism (VIDEO)
January 30, 2026

Screencap of Twitter/X video.

CNN ‘media analyst’ Brian Stelter is defending his former network colleague Don Lemon, after his arrest for being part of the mob that invaded a church last week.

According to Stelter, Lemon was doing journalism, and everyone benefited from his reporting inside the church.

Stelter also claims that the arrest was only made because ‘MAGA loyalists’ were putting pressure on the DOJ.

NewsBusters reports:

Over the course of roughly two hours, numerous CNN faces rallied to Lemon’s defense by citing his work badgering congregants and the pastor as “insightful” to the point that America is “better off for” Lemon having gone along and exercised a “foundational” tenet of “democracy.” More broadly, Lemon’s YouTube page was heralded as having yielded “opinionated” “videos” and “straightforward journalism.”

A longtime friend to the Black Lives Matter movement, News Central co-host Sara Sidner first reacted by calling this “a stunning move” that “cannot be overstated,” leading chief media analyst Brian Stelter to immediately defend Lemon and even praise his actions…

No word on whether Stelter considers lecturing the pastor and congregants about their supposed lack of true Christianity his kind of interview. Of course, he phrased those believing Lemon shouldn’t be absolved of scrutiny as “MAGA loyalists.”

Transcript by Curtis Houck on Twitter/X:

“Lemon has said all along that he was there not as an activist, but as a journalist. In fact, he was saying those words and repeating that out loud when he was inside the church….He was careful not to have his camera crew walk into the church until there was a disruption. And I would urge people to go online, actually watch the YouTube videos, see how it all went down.

I think Lemon’s reporting from inside the church was very valuable. As a viewer, I learned a lot about how it happened, how it all went down. He interviewed some of the protesters in real time, yes. He also interviewed some of the worshippers, and I thought their comments were really insightful about what they went through, about how troubled, how scared they were by the disruption. At the same time, like I said, you learned a lot from the protesters about why they decided to show up there, believing that one of the — the pastors at the church also worked for ICE.

So, this video on YouTube, this is the real focal point. This video, of course, happened on a Sunday morning. This video was then streaming for everyone to see. And by Monday, the day after that incident, there was a lot of online outrage on the right. Many calls from MAGA loyalists to have Lemon arrested.”

See the video below:

How utterly predictable. Stelter is completely ignoring Lemon’s behavior in the church. He was clearly there as an activist. He thought the journalism act was going to provide him cover.

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RUMOR: Amy Klobuchar Running for Minnesota Governor, Will Appoint Tim Walz to Her Vacant Senate Seat (VIDEO)

RUMOR: Amy Klobuchar Running for Minnesota Governor, Will Appoint Tim Walz to Her Vacant Senate Seat (VIDEO)

RUMOR: Amy Klobuchar Running for Minnesota Governor, Will Appoint Tim Walz to Her Vacant Senate Seat (VIDEO)
January 30, 2026

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Democrat Senator Amy Klobuchar is running for governor of Minnesota to succeed Tim Walz. This is not a rumor. It has been widely reported.

From The Hill:

Klobuchar launches bid for Minnesota governor

Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) on Thursday officially threw her hat in the ring to run for governor of Minnesota.

“Minnesotans, we’ve been through a lot,” she wrote on the social platform X. “And I believe this moment calls for grit, resilience, and faith in each other. I believe we must stand up for what’s right. And fix what’s wrong. Today, I’m announcing my candidacy for Governor.”

Klobuchar, in a video message, referred to the June assassination of state Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman (D), a shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis that left two children dead and more than a dozen injured, and the fatal shootings of residents Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal immigration officials this month, as part of what the state’s residents have “been through.”

“Three thousand [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] agents on our streets and in our towns, sent by an administration that relishes division,” she added, referring to President Trump.

The aspect of this story that is not being reported, is the belief by many that if Klobuchar wins the race for governor, she will appoint Tim Walz to fill her vacant senate seat.

Under such an arrangement, Klobuchar and Walz would just be switching seats. Journalist Liz Collin of Minnesota talked about this on Watters’ World last night.

PJ Media has details:

Jesse Watters reacted with surprise, prompting Collin to add more context about Klobuchar’s own announcement.

“Also interesting to note that Senator Klobuchar, in her announcement, did not mention President Trump today by name,” Collin said. “She did say that she was going to root out fraud, but that’s hard for many of us to believe. She’s been a senator for nearly 20 years.” Collin added that Klobuchar “has been silent, uh, on the issue of Somali fraud in Minnesota, Jesse.”

Watters pressed the point directly, asking, “Wait, so Liz, are you saying there’s a deal between Walz and Amy?” He followed up, “She’s gonna appoint him to be a senator?” Collin stopped short of making an accusation, but she could not dismiss the idea. “It is a possibility, and I thought the word choice in that interview last night was quite interesting,” she said.

Watch the clip:

Would this arrangement surprise anyone? It’s just the sort of thing you would expect these Democrats to do.

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Hillary Clinton’s Hit Piece Against Several Christian Leaders Doesn’t Get the Response She Was Hoping for: ‘I’ve Never Been More Proud’

Hillary Clinton’s Hit Piece Against Several Christian Leaders Doesn’t Get the Response She Was Hoping for: ‘I’ve Never Been More Proud’

Hillary Clinton’s Hit Piece Against Several Christian Leaders Doesn’t Get the Response She Was Hoping for: ‘I’ve Never Been More Proud’
January 30, 2026

Through the centuries, many Christians have made the mistake of trying to guess the exact date of the Parousia. I will avoid that error. Christ’s Second Coming will arrive in God’s good time.

I will, however, propose that the Antichrist may already have walked among us for decades.

In an op-ed titled “MAGA’s War on Empathy,” published Thursday by The Atlantic, former Secretary of State and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton — yes, Hillary Clinton, of all people — opined on what she regarded as the abandonment of Christian principles by Christian leaders, only to discover that those same Christian leaders regard her disapproval as a badge of honor, including one Christian leader’s friend who, on the social media platform X, declared, “I’ve never been more proud of my guy.”

Anyone who suffers through Clinton’s op-ed will come away deeply impressed by its lack of substance. At its core lies a tired liberal refrain: we (liberals) are good, and they — President Donald Trump and his supporters — are not. Clinton has done little more than echo that refrain by using her (misapplied) concept of empathy.

Citing recent violent protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Minneapolis, Minnesota — in the first paragraph, she even mentioned 37-year-old anti-ICE activist Alex Pretti, killed on Saturday during a confrontation with federal agents — Clinton built a particularly weak straw man (MAGA hates empathy) to compose a piece littered with ad hominem attacks.

“This crisis also reveals a deeper moral rot at the heart of Trump’s MAGA movement,” she wrote. “Whatever you think about immigration policy, how can a person of conscience justify the lack of compassion and empathy for the victims in Minnesota, and for the families torn apart or hiding in fear, for the children separated from their parents or afraid to go to school?”

Trump, of course, has done exactly the opposite. In fact, he has shown compassion both for Pretti and for 37-year-old Renee Good, who also lost her life earlier this month after attempting to obstruct an ICE operation.

Those facts, however, did not stop Clinton from attacking the president and his supporters, including prominent Christian voices.

First, she attacked pastor Ben Garrett for failing to endorse open borders and affirm LGBT lifestyles.

Then, she took Christian podcaster and author Allie Beth Stuckey to task for Stuckey’s concept of “toxic empathy.” Stuckey even wrote a 2024 book by that title: “Toxic Empathy: How Progressives Exploit Christian Compassion.”

Leadership and the Sin of Empathy,” a book by “extremist pastor” Joe Rigney, also incurred Clinton’s wrath. Rigney, too, has committed the sin — in Clinton’s eyes — of being “an ally of the influential Christian nationalist Douglas Wilson.”

Stuckey, Rigney, and Wilson responded directly on X. Stuckey and Rigney expressed gratitude that someone as vile as Clinton had singled them out for disapprobation.

Meanwhile, Wilson joked about the number of people in Clinton’s orbit who have died mysterious deaths.

Brian Sauvé, a self-described friend of Ben Garrett, wrote that he has “never been more proud of my guy.”

In other words, those Christian leaders would think of themselves as lost souls if they ever earned Clinton’s approval.

What lessons, therefore, might we draw from Clinton’s eyebrow-raising op-ed?

First, her premise has already fallen into obsolescence. A new video, released this week, has exposed Pretti not as an innocent victim but as a raging anti-ICE lunatic.

Second, Stuckey and Rigney had it right — and Clinton wrong — about the nature of empathy. Compassion, of course, is a good thing. But liberals always direct their concerns toward inappropriate objects. They show empathy for criminals, not victims, for illegal immigrants, not American citizens. And they work their foot soldiers into a frenzy so as to foment riots on behalf of the unworthy. What Clinton calls “empathy,” we call “emotional manipulation.”

Finally, and above all, the sight of Clinton opining on the meaning of Christianity convinces me that there is at least a five percent chance that she is the Antichrist (Readers may read into that comment whatever degree of hyperbole they deem accurate).

For one thing, one always cringes when an abortion supporter presumes to lecture others about the Word of Life.

But one may detect Clinton’s actual hostility to Christianity in multiple sources. She has, for instance, said derogatory things about it in interviews as recently as last year.

The strongest piece of evidence pointing to Clinton as a phony Christian, however, comes from her endorsement of Eric Hoffer’s “The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements.”

In that book, Hoffer argued that the substance or purpose of mass movements makes no difference. What matters is that the “true believer,” often for psychological or socio-economic reasons, wishes to lose himself or herself in a transcendent cause. To support his thesis, Hoffer analyzed fascism, communism, and … early Christianity.

During the 2016 campaign, according to the Washington Post, Clinton recommended “The True Believer” to her senior staff. She thought it would help them understand Trump’s appeal.

In the end, of course, only God knows our hearts. But Clinton posing as an authority on Christianity sure does give the impression of supernatural deception.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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Author: Michael Schwarz, The Western Journal