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2 women struck by car on Seattle highway closed amid protests


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2020 Jul 4, 8:55am   1,525 views  36 comments

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A vehicle plowed through a protest-related closure on a Seattle freeway, striking multiple protesters, including two women who suffered serious injuries, police said Saturday.

The hit-and-run incident occurred shortly before midnight on Interstate 5 and the two victims, both in their 20s, were rushed to Harborview Medical Center, Washington State Patrol Trooper Rick Johnson said on Twitter.

Video of the crash on social media showed a white car striking the women, who flew into the air before landing on the ground.

The Seattle Fire Department said one of the victims was in critical condition while the other is stable with serious injuries.

State troopers and officers from the Bellingham Police Department chased the vehicle as it fled, and nabbed the suspect. Both he and his passenger were uninjured, Trooper H. Axtman said on Twitter.

The unidentified suspect -- a 27-year-old man from Seattle, according to The Associated Press -- was booked in the Whatcom County Jail. Police said he is the same person who attempted to elude officers in another incident two weeks ago.

Protests in Seattle have been ongoing in the wake of George Floyd's death in Minneapolis, which triggered a nationwide movement condemning police brutality and racial inequality.

Authorities have closed I-5 several times amidst the unrest and clashes with police have ramped up after the city cleared the self-declared Capitol Hill Occupied Protest zone on Wednesday following several violent incidents.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/2-women-hit-by-car-on-seattle-highway-closed-amid-protests

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1   Tenpoundbass   2020 Jul 4, 8:57am  

Good! It's a fucking road not a Commie Romper Room.
2   porkchopXpress   2020 Jul 4, 11:50am  

By Left-wing logic, this driver must be a Trump supporter which means Trump advocates hitting protesters with cars. Trump is a murderer...case closed.
4   theoakman   2020 Jul 4, 12:50pm  

Here's one view

www.youtube.com/embed/0jtXAP06qzA

But here's the phone first person video of the person literally hit.

https://twitter.com/BanTheBBC/status/1279376024262848512

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
6   Hircus   2020 Jul 4, 12:59pm  

The sound of that impact. Wow.
7   just_passing_through   2020 Jul 4, 1:01pm  

Happy 4th of July!
8   RC2006   2020 Jul 4, 1:02pm  

Play stupid games win stupid prizes.
9   just_passing_through   2020 Jul 4, 1:03pm  

BTW, as many of you know, I have a direct line of communication with God himself. He just informed me they both went straight to hell.
10   MisdemeanorRebel   2020 Jul 4, 1:03pm  

Notice another White Van blocking the road.

Would be wild if driver was an aspiring rapper high on drugs with a criminal record.
11   Hircus   2020 Jul 4, 1:26pm  

Here's first person vid of the girl who got hit.

https://twitter.com/RealSaleemJuma/status/1279350478216675331

These confused, useless, radical leftists had plenty of time to react, but ran in circles, and most of them ultimately ran right into the cars path instead of just staying where they were where they'd have been safe from the path. I bet some of them were trying to decide whether they should run or block the cars path like good obediant marxists protesters do.
12   Ceffer   2020 Jul 4, 1:29pm  

"So, now, if you survive, you will be in medical agony for years, your families will face ongoing medical bills forever, and you will never be the same again. Thank you for your valiant contribution to the cause, and here is your gold star. Maybe there's a lawsuit in there for you somewhere, we'll send legal over in the morning."
13   Hircus   2020 Jul 4, 1:35pm  

Amazing these 2 women are alive after that collision.

14   Ceffer   2020 Jul 4, 2:23pm  

Hircus says

I wonder if this one is a lesbian. I can't tell.
15   FuckTheMainstreamMedia   2020 Jul 4, 2:39pm  

It’s the direct fault of the politicians. They never should allow protestors to be on the freeway. All protestors entering a freeway should be immediately arrested or dispersed with tear gas, rubber pellets, etc.

Entering the freeways as a pedestrian is an inherently dangerous action and the laws against doing so should be enforced.

Time for Democrat mayors and governors to be individually sued and held accountable for failing to direct their law enforcement t agencies to enforce the law.
17   Ceffer   2020 Jul 4, 4:47pm  

So many drugs, so little time. Mayhem by schadenfreude.
18   RC2006   2020 Jul 4, 5:22pm  

Go speed racer!
19   Patrick   2020 Jul 4, 5:54pm  

porkchopexpress says
By Left-wing logic, this driver must be a Trump supporter which means Trump advocates hitting protesters with cars. Trump is a murderer...case closed.


I wish they had waited a day or two before releasing the fact that it was a black guy.

"White car? WHITE SUPREMACIST!"

Next day:

"Oh."

As it is, the media is going to bury this as fast as Epstein's murder. Doesn't help the cause you know.
20   Patrick   2020 Jul 4, 6:00pm  

Lol, yes, they were IMMEDIATELY blaming "right wing" extremists:



And this from someone who goes by "Truth Matters"?

Reminds me a lot of the black guy shooting the white guy at the Kentucky BLM camp. That sure got buried quickly too.
23   GNL   2020 Jul 4, 7:47pm  

Ceffer says
Hircus says

I wonder if this one is a lesbian. I can't tell.

Stay away from freaks.
25   Ceffer   2020 Jul 4, 8:00pm  

Booger says


Can I order mine with 'blood 'n guts flaps', to keep the guts off the undercarriage?
26   theoakman   2020 Jul 4, 8:45pm  

After watching the girl's first person video...she was literally distracted by her phone, kept filming instead of getting the fuck out of the way.
27   MisdemeanorRebel   2020 Jul 4, 11:12pm  

One is now dead. How quickly it went from "Right Wing Terror Attack" to "Crash" when the perp didn't conform to expectations.
28   richwicks   2020 Jul 4, 11:27pm  

If these are accurate photos of the two girls that were hit:

Hircus says
Amazing these 2 women are alive after that collision.


That's probably Summer Taylor or Seattle. She was 24. She died at Harborview Medical Center.

Hircus says


That's Diaz Love of Portland, Oregon - she is 32. Current information is that she's still alive.
29   GNL   2020 Jul 5, 4:36am  

NoCoupForYou says
One is now dead. How quickly it went from "Right Wing Terror Attack" to "Crash" when the perp didn't conform to expectations.

I've forgotten about the movie "Crash". My daughter owes me 2 movies because I watched 2 of hers. I may have her watch that one with me.
30   Booger   2020 Jul 5, 5:31am  

Ceffer says
Can I order mine with 'blood 'n guts flaps', to keep the guts off the undercarriage?


I recommend a pressure washer instead.
31   Al_Sharpton_for_President   2020 Jul 5, 5:32am  

Note the woke rules: OK to mention the sexual orientation of the deceased as she is not heterosexual.. Not OK to mention the race of the perp as he is not white.

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Stunned friends identified one of the victims as Taylor, a nonbinary person from Seattle ....

Dawit Kelete, 27, who is suspected of driving into the crowd, is in the King County Jail, ahead of his first court appearance on Monday.

Troopers said Kelete somehow managed to get past the roadblocks on I-5 and plow into protesters while headed in the wrong direction on the freeway.

Troopers described Kelete as “reserved and sullen” when they arrested him, according to court documents. They also said he asked if the injured protesters were doing OK.

Troopers said he did not have any drugs or alcohol in his system at the time of the crash.

“Very candidly, we don’t know at this point in the investigation what the motive was, what the reasoning was,” Mead said.

KIRO 7 found out that Kelete has faced charges of assault, trespassing and malicious mischief in the past. However, each charge was eventually dismissed.

This time, troopers said things could be very different. “At the very least, we’re looking at vehicular assault charges right now, felony hit and run, but those could be upgraded depending on the progress of the investigation,” Mead said.

As troopers investigate the crash, they’re also cracking down on any future protests that might happen on the freeway.

“We’re letting them know now that we’ll block their access, and if they go around and they actually do go out on the freeway, they will be arrested,” a trooper said.

Troopers said there is no proof that Kelete acted deliberately.

Kelete is expected to face several serious charges.

https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/2-protesters-critically-injured-after-car-drives-into-crowd-i-5/UQCNROPHTRB2DPPEEYJY5YQZAA/
32   BayArea   2020 Jul 5, 7:18am  

That moment when you are a white liberal woman protesting for Black Lives Matter, and a black man murders you. I can’t even...
35   Karloff   2020 Jul 7, 9:29am  

Get out of the road if you want to grow old.

Anyone ever see the TV show My Name is Earl? The guy they arrested looks a lot like the Darnell character.

36   Ceffer   2020 Jul 7, 10:05am  

Al_Sharpton_for_President says
Another protester mowed down by vehicle:


Nature never seems to throw away any genetic residues. These are the doofus who threw themselves into the paths of mastodons during hunts, thinking they were going to stop, like dogs chasing cars..

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