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Omaha Steve

(99,073 posts)
Sun Jul 5, 2020, 08:07 AM Jul 2020

1 of 2 protesters hit by car on closed Seattle highway dies

Source: AP

By MARTHA BELLISLE

SEATTLE (AP) — A car drove onto a closed freeway early Saturday and struck two people in a crowd protesting against police brutality, killing one and critically injuring the other, authorities said.

Summer Taylor, 24, of Seattle died in the evening at Harborview Medical Center, spokesperson Susan Gregg said.

Taylor and Diaz Love, 32, of Portland, Oregon, were hit by the car that barreled through a panicked crowd of protesters on Interstate 5 early Saturday morning, officials said.

Dawit Kelete of Seattle drove the car around vehicles that were blocking I-5 and sped into the crowd about 1:40 a.m., according to a police report released by the Washington State Patrol. Video taken at the scene by protesters showed people shouting “Car! Car!” before fleeing the roadway.



Emergency workers tend to an injured person on the ground after a driver sped through a protest-related closure on the Interstate 5 freeway in Seattle, authorities said early Saturday, July 4, 2020. Dawit Kelete, 27, has been arrested and booked on two counts of vehicular assault. (James Anderson via AP)


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1 of 2 protesters hit by car on closed Seattle highway dies (Original Post) Omaha Steve Jul 2020 OP
Oh, no! GreenPartyVoter Jul 2020 #1
Trumpsters! FarPoint Jul 2020 #2
Do we really think this was a Trumpster? AkFemDem Jul 2020 #5
Nope, and that's why this story will fade unlike the others n/t Devil Child Jul 2020 #6
Yep. Tipperary Jul 2020 #18
Indeed. cwydro Jul 2020 #31
Driving a Jaguar? Lulu KC Jul 2020 #7
Right. Igel Jul 2020 #9
I didn't expect the Jag Lulu KC Jul 2020 #11
I don't really know then... FarPoint Jul 2020 #8
I got into an argument with a Black Muslim Trump supporter JI7 Jul 2020 #30
Extremely unlikely. nt Codeine Jul 2020 #10
Somehow I doubt it Polybius Jul 2020 #13
I don't wish to sterotype by race.... FarPoint Jul 2020 #15
It really does not matter if he is or is not a Trump supporter because cstanleytech Jul 2020 #20
Thank You. Progressive Jones Jul 2020 #22
Aggravated Vehicular Homicide rickyhall Jul 2020 #3
Tears are falling. hamsterjill Jul 2020 #4
Kind of late now MichMan Jul 2020 #12
Hopefully the attraction of protesting on freeways will subside. Steelrolled Jul 2020 #17
How does protesting on a closed freeway at 1:30 am get your message out? MichMan Jul 2020 #24
It's been a long time since I've been the age of those protesters Steelrolled Jul 2020 #25
I'm not sure how you expect to get sympathy for your cause ripcord Jul 2020 #27
They should never have been allowed to be Raine Jul 2020 #21
Charge the asshole with premeditated murder. lark Jul 2020 #14
You're sure he's right wing? cwydro Jul 2020 #19
We don't know, and it doesn't matter. He's a murderer. nt Progressive Jones Jul 2020 #23
No, not positive, but why else would he deliberately kill leftists protestors? lark Jul 2020 #26
As someone else on this thread or another, he may have taken a wrong ramp. cwydro Jul 2020 #29
I assume the charge will be upgraded usajumpedtheshark Jul 2020 #16
very sad Skittles Jul 2020 #28
I fault the Highway Patrol for allowing it madville Jul 2020 #32
uh huh Skittles Jul 2020 #33
 

Tipperary

(6,930 posts)
18. Yep.
Sun Jul 5, 2020, 02:05 PM
Jul 2020

Yesterday on another thread everyone was sure it was a trumper. Jumping to conclusions is almost a sport around here.

Lulu KC

(2,547 posts)
11. I didn't expect the Jag
Sun Jul 5, 2020, 10:03 AM
Jul 2020

My own stereotyping imagined a big white pickup truck with NRA stickers on it. Before he was arrested and identified I thought, "A Jaguar?"

(I do get your point. I have other examples of that in myself, just the sequence off in this one. I have a Black friend who went on a skiing trip. I confessed to her that my immediate subconscious thought was, "I didn't know Black people skiied." She said, "Yes! That's exactly what I told my husband when he said we were going. Then when I told my sons we were going they said exactly the same thing." For me it was a subconscious thought that I had to pay attention to. For her, it was a very conscious thought of a different type. VAST subject.)

FarPoint

(12,209 posts)
8. I don't really know then...
Sun Jul 5, 2020, 09:49 AM
Jul 2020

I guess we , I need to wait for more information....Yet, trumpsters are from all races....so, the theme of hate of BLM runs consistent.

JI7

(89,182 posts)
30. I got into an argument with a Black Muslim Trump supporter
Sun Jul 5, 2020, 08:15 PM
Jul 2020

He was trashing George floyd and white people that supported blm.

not saying that is the case here but that there are some non white supporters of trump and they are as bad as the white ones.

FarPoint

(12,209 posts)
15. I don't wish to sterotype by race....
Sun Jul 5, 2020, 10:52 AM
Jul 2020

Trumpsters are also black....look at his rallies and campaign ads....

cstanleytech

(26,083 posts)
20. It really does not matter if he is or is not a Trump supporter because
Sun Jul 5, 2020, 03:33 PM
Jul 2020

either way he is a fucking asshole.

MichMan

(11,790 posts)
12. Kind of late now
Sun Jul 5, 2020, 10:13 AM
Jul 2020

"The Washington State Patrol said Saturday evening that going forward it won’t allow protesters to enter I-5 and would arrest pedestrians on the freeway."

"Protesters had shut down the interstate for 19 days in a row, Mead said at a press conference."

 

Steelrolled

(2,022 posts)
17. Hopefully the attraction of protesting on freeways will subside.
Sun Jul 5, 2020, 12:42 PM
Jul 2020

I don't really blame the protesters for their ignorance, I did a lot of stupid things in my youth and can imagine myself being on that freeway, just for the excitement of it.

Hopefully the city admin and police are also learning (from this and CHOP) that there is no easy solution. A laissez faire policy might reduce the risk of bad videos on social media, but there is a responsibility (or sorts) of protecting the protesters from themselves.

MichMan

(11,790 posts)
24. How does protesting on a closed freeway at 1:30 am get your message out?
Sun Jul 5, 2020, 04:28 PM
Jul 2020

Isnt the point of protesting to spread your message to a large audience, especially those who have the power to do something?

Protesting at 130 am on a closed freeway doesn't appear to be accomplishing anything towards those goals.

 

Steelrolled

(2,022 posts)
25. It's been a long time since I've been the age of those protesters
Sun Jul 5, 2020, 05:25 PM
Jul 2020

but I have a pretty good memory. In my humble opinion, this is why they go out on the freeway...

1. Get a rise out of the public/police
2. Fun and excitement
3. The challenge

Notice that "getting out the message" is not on my list. It is quite telling that often times, lately, the protests don't really get started until very late in the evening. About the time you would normally hit the bars and clubs.

ripcord

(5,084 posts)
27. I'm not sure how you expect to get sympathy for your cause
Sun Jul 5, 2020, 06:34 PM
Jul 2020

When you go out of your way to piss off people who sit for hours in traffic.

lark

(23,003 posts)
14. Charge the asshole with premeditated murder.
Sun Jul 5, 2020, 10:51 AM
Jul 2020

That what these scum of the earth are, right wing murderers, regardless of race. Did he have a military background, that might explain part of his motivation? Don't know, just guessing at the motivation. He couldn't have been so impaired he didn't know what he was doing since he had to navigate multiple barriers (so I've read) to get to the point where he could deliberately kill folks so it strongly appears he killed them on purpose and for a reason (even if it was just hate against "leftists&quot .

lark

(23,003 posts)
26. No, not positive, but why else would he deliberately kill leftists protestors?
Sun Jul 5, 2020, 05:50 PM
Jul 2020

If you have a better idea about why that happened, please share. They said he wasn't intoxicated, so that's ruled out.

 

cwydro

(51,308 posts)
29. As someone else on this thread or another, he may have taken a wrong ramp.
Sun Jul 5, 2020, 07:38 PM
Jul 2020

Speeding in a car he didn't know how to control...saw the blockade cars, avoided them, then hit the protesters. An idiot driving a car he couldn't control.

It's as likely as anything else. You think a black guy from Eritrea wanted to kill BLM protesters?

Who knows? Maybe he did. All the pics I've seen from his social media show him with white folks. On the other hand, does that make him right wing?

More likely, toxic testosterone speeding in a fast car.

I hope they throw the book at him though. Meantime, I'm glad they're putting an end to these freeway protests.

madville

(7,397 posts)
32. I fault the Highway Patrol for allowing it
Mon Jul 6, 2020, 12:33 PM
Jul 2020

It what world does it make sense to allow protestors to intentionally endanger themselves, law enforcement should be protecting them by not allowing them in the roadway illegally.

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