Will James

Yeah, I saw the car and I spoke to people on the ground.

Antonio Sr.

painted this picture of a father and son taking in and processing all of the protests breaking out across the country that summer.

The George Floyd thing happened.

He sees a current example of police brutality bigger than the Rodney King.

I mean, this was a real life black movement against police brutality that was going down in his lifetime.

Antonio Sr.

would record protests happening in L.A.

where he worked and share those videos with his son.

My son asked me, he said, Dad, if you didn't have us, would you be joining those riots?

And, you know, for fear of him being excited to go join, you know, this is the one time I felt like, damn.

Did I give him too much information?

You know, did I encourage him in a way that I don't want him to be encouraged right now because I didn't want him to go join that fight.

About a month after George Floyd's murder, Antonio Sr.

learned his son had gone to join that fight.

Antonio Jr.

left his home for Seattle on June 23, 2020, without telling his dad.

Antonio Sr.

filed a missing persons report as soon as he discovered his son had left.

He was shot and killed at the Seattle protest less than a week later.