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Video: An Hour Before the Shooting
WARNING: This video contains explicit language.
June 29, 2020: Livestreamer Marcus Kulik shared an unpublished video of the intersection of 12th & Pine, recorded from his apartment window in the hours leading up to the killing of Antonio Mays Jr. This excerpt shows a confrontation between CHOP security and a man on a nearby roof, just over an hour before the shooting.
Video: Extended Footage of the Shooting Events
WARNING: This video contains explicit language and the sound of gun violence.
June 29, 2020: This excerpt, also from Kulik's unpublished video of the intersection, shows the events surrounding the shooting.
Audio: Secret Recording of a CHOP Security Meeting
WARNING: This audio contains explicit language.
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July 2, 2020: A source, who provided reporters with this material on the condition they not be named, recorded a meeting of CHOP security soon after the city cleared the zone. In these excerpts, members plan a takeover of then-Mayor Jenny Durkan's house – a takeover that never happened.
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