{"id":1511071,"date":"2022-06-11T17:04:55","date_gmt":"2022-06-11T21:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1511071"},"modified":"2022-06-11T17:05:04","modified_gmt":"2022-06-11T21:05:04","slug":"his-son-was-killed-after-seattle-police-abandoned-their-precinct-in-the-chop-zone-now-hes-settled-a-wrongful-death-lawsuit-with-the-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/his-son-was-killed-after-seattle-police-abandoned-their-precinct-in-the-chop-zone-now-hes-settled-a-wrongful-death-lawsuit-with-the-city\/","title":{"rendered":"His Son Was Killed After Seattle Police Abandoned Their Precinct In The CHOP Zone. Now He\u2019s Settled A Wrongful Death Lawsuit With The City."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">48<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhis-son-was-killed-after-seattle-police-abandoned-their-precinct-in-the-chop-zone-now-hes-settled-a-wrongful-death-lawsuit-with-the-city%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1511071&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/father-of-chop-murder-victim-sues-state-city-demands-billions-in-damages\">father<\/a> of 19-year-old Horace Lorenzo Anderson will receive $500,000 in a settlement with the city of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/seattle\">Seattle<\/a> nearly two years after his son was shot and killed in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/anarchy-and-chaos-journalist-describes-seattles-chop-at-night\">Capitol Hill Organized Protest<\/a> (CHOP) zone.<\/p>\n<p>Anderson\u2019s father, also named Horace, filed a complaint in November 2021 against former Seattle Mayor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/jenny-durkan\">Jenny Durkan<\/a>, Councilmember Kshama Sawant, and the city of Seattle. The lawsuit alleged that these city leaders encouraged CHOP zone occupants to break the law and put people\u2019s lives in danger, which ultimately led to Anderson\u2019s death, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/seattle-news\/law-justice\/city-of-seattle-pays-500k-to-settle-lawsuit-over-death-of-man-killed-in-chop-shooting\/\">according<\/a> to The Seattle Times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDurkan, the lawsuit claimed, downplayed the illegal behavior and \u2018celebrated the existence, message and methods of CHOP and CHOP participants\u2019 even as police officials, including then-Chief Carmen Best, warned of increasing mayhem and violence around Cal Anderson Park,\u201d the Times noted.<\/p>\n<p>Anderson was killed after getting into a confrontation with 18-year-old Marcel Long in the CHOP zone on June 20, 2020. Another 33-year-old man was also reportedly shot in the incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBad blood between the two young men led Long to allegedly shoot Anderson on the sidewalk across the street from Cal Anderson Park, according to police,\u201d the Times previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/seattle-news\/law-justice\/lawsuit-filed-by-mother-of-man-killed-during-chop-anti-police-protests-dismissed-by-judge\/\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Long was arrested after a year-long search and <a href=\"https:\/\/komonews.com\/news\/local\/seattle-chop-zone-murder-suspect-pleads-not-guilty\">charged<\/a> with first-degree murder in July 2021. He pleaded not guilty.<\/p>\n<p>The Seattle Police Department abandoned its East Precinct on Capitol Hill 12 days before Anderson was allegedly shot and killed by Long. The decision to leave the precinct came after 10 days of protests and rioting in the area following the death of George Floyd in late May 2020.<\/p>\n<p>After Anderson was allegedly shot, evidence showed that medics did not immediately enter the CHOP zone to attend to him, citing a policy for police presence to go in first and clear the way for medics in scenes of violence. Police claimed a hostile crowd prevented them from entering the CHOP zone to clear the way for medics. Anderson reportedly had to be treated by civilians and taken to Harborview Medical Center in the back of a pickup truck.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit against the city claims Anderson would have survived his wounds had medics been able to get to him immediately.<\/p>\n<p>Two weeks after Anderson\u2019s death, his father <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/father-whose-19-year-son-was-killed-in-seattles-chop-gives-emotional-interview-they-should-have-stopped-this-a-long-time-ago\">appeared<\/a> on Sean Hannity\u2019s show on Fox News to discuss his heartbreak and frustration with the city and police department. \u201cThe only way I found out was just two of his friends, just two friends that just happened to be up there and they came and told me,\u201d Horace said during the emotional interview. \u201cThey weren\u2019t even from Seattle. Now, mind you, I haven\u2019t heard \u2014 the police department, they never came \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cSomeone should\u2019ve came and knocked on my door and \u2026 should\u2019ve been, like, coming to talk to me and let me know about my son. To this day, I really don\u2019t know nothing. I\u2019m still here sitting. I don\u2019t know nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The father of 19-year-old Horace Lorenzo Anderson will receive $500,000 in a settlement with the city of Seattle nearly two years after his son was shot and killed in the Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP) zone. Anderson\u2019s father, also named Horace, filed a complaint in November 2021 against former Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan, Councilmember Kshama &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":324,"featured_media":1511082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1511071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1511071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1511082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1511071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1511071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1511071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}