CHOP lasted 3 weeks
The Capitol Hill Occupied Protest existed for approximately 3 weeks before it ended following the shooting of Antonio Mays Jr.
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How an anti-police violence protest ended in a teen’s death
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Jun 14, 2026
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Sydney Brownstone Arrives at a Crime Scene
At 1:58 · chapter starts 1:55
Sydney Brownstone lived just blocks from CHOP, and when an editor called the morning of June 29 to ask if she could report from the scene, she ran out of her apartment and walked toward the protest. The first blocks looked normal — dog walkers, rainbow crosswalks, a leather daddy bar, familiar Capitol Hill. But the moment she crossed onto 12th Avenue, the world changed. CHOP had been there for three weeks, an Occupy-style camp spread across roughly 8 square blocks of the neighborhood. On that particular morning, it was a crime scene. Crowds were screaming in the street. A protester was carrying a baseball bat. Black clergy members prayed over a blood-smeared car. Brownstone quickly learned what had happened: two Black teenagers had been shot hours earlier, one fatally. His name was Antonio Mays Jr.
The Morning After: A Reporter Walks Into a Crime Scene
Sydney Brownstone lived blocks from CHOP and was sent to report on the shooting the morning of June 29, 2020. Crossing onto 12th Avenue, the ordinary Capitol Hill neighborhood gave way to screaming protesters, blood-smeared cars, and clergy praying in the street — a crime scene dressed up as a protest.
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