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CHOP Shooting Victim’s Family Slaps Seattle With A Federal Lawsuit Over ‘Botched Communications’

Beth Baumann
CHOP Shooting Victim’s Family Slaps Seattle With A Federal Lawsuit Over ‘Botched Communications’
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Donnitta Sinclair, the mother of 19-year-old Horace Lorenzo Anderson, a black man who was shot and killed in Seattle’s Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP) last June, filed a federal lawsuit against the city of Seattle. According to Sinclair, there were “botched communications” between Seattle Police and Fire, which resulted in Anderson’s death.

In her lawsuit, Sinclair alleges “bad decisions, confusion, miscommunication and poor planning by city officials contributed to” her son’s death, The Seattle Times reported.

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