Posters and signs are hung on fencing around the East Precinct building of the Seattle Police Department, Sunday, June 14, 2020, inside what has been named the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest zone in Seattle. Protesters calling for police reform and other demands have taken over several blocks near downtown Seattle after officers withdrew from the station following violent confrontations. Photo: Ted S. Warren/AP
A federal appeals court has dismissed a mother’s claim against the city of Seattle following her son’s murder in a protest zone, despite holding that parents’ loss of companionship claims may extend to their adult children and that, in this case, the city created an “actual danger.”
In a March 1 opinion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed a district court’s ruling to dismiss a mother’s § 1983 claim against the city of Seattle after her teenage son was killed in Seattle’s Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP) zone in June 2020.
