SEATTLE — Two women were struck by a car whose driver sped through a protest-related closure on a freeway, authorities said early Saturday.
“A vehicle drove through the closure and struck multiple pedestrians on the freeway,” the State Patrol’s District 2 public information account for King County tweeted shortly after 2 a.m. Just before midnight, he had tweeted that portions of Interstate 5 were closed because of protests.The vehicle was stopped and the driver was in custody, the State Patrol account tweeted. Charges remain under investigation, as does the motive and point of entry onto the interstate.
A nearly two-hour-long Facebook livestream captioned “Black Femme March takes I-5” from Diaz Love ended abruptly; with about 15 seconds left, shouts of “Car!” can be heard as the camera starts to shake before screeching tires and the sound of impact are heard. The Associated Press could not immediately reach her.
Washington State Patrol Capt. Ron Mead said at the press conference that protesters had shut down the interstate for 19 days in a row. He emphasized that the freeway is “simply not a safe place for pedestrians,” and said he hoped protesters would reconsider what he termed illegal activity “as a result of this tragedy.”
If it was a white man that did it, it would be international news and painted as racist white man kills protesters with car.
Um get out of the fucking road.
I’ve watch the video several times. You can even see a car crossing the highway further back. It doesn’t look like the highway was closed officially by any Agency. Conspiracy theorist need to change their aluminum foil hats
On Washington freeways theres a sign it says no pedestrians or non-motorized vehicles. Read it...it's the law!
dontblockhighwaysdontgethit
Watched the video. One, there was cars in his way & he tried to avoid them. Then he tried to avoid even the protesters. Funny that he was a migrant. I guess he was not integrated enough to get the update about these 'protests'. 'White supremacist' my ass.
Can someone update on how well the social workers are doing patching up the injured!
Potential natural selection.
nocopcoop DarwinAwards
Lol a protest related closure.
You forgot to mention the driver is black
Driver should have had a bigger car
Oh no. Does anyone know? Did the car suffer much damage? I hope it'll be okay.
Lots of people on here sticking up for domestic terrorists...
The 9th Amendment states: 'The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.' These rioters (not protesters) do not have the right to block a freeway that others have the right to. Arrest them ALL.
That was glorious! This kind of thing needs to happen more often. If there's a GoFundMe set up for the driver, I'm in for a few bucks.
It was not 'closed amid protests', it was BLOCKED BY PROTESTERS. Not at ALL the same thing, and a blatant attempt to shift the blame to the driver and pretend those that were hurt did nothing wrong.
Owning the libs through vehicular homicide. This person should be treated no differently than any other Karen. Post their name and where they work. If they will intentionally do this, imagine what else they are capable of.
Why is it that we always know it was a black man by the titles and reporting by our MSM? Are you afraid to say the guy was black? If he was white, you would have it plastered all over your reporting. Will be interesting to see this story die in less than 24 hours. FakeNewsMedia
The US is a wreck...literally!
Why are dummies on the freeway
I just saw the video and I’m surprised anyone lived through that.....I would say this is why PEOPLE shouldn’t congregate in an interstate with 70MPH speed limit.
Does she need bail money ? Why charge her
The guy is a young Black man. Not a Trump Supporter... Fail on the Left for their Prejudice Racist Bigotry.
No the driver didn't speed through. It's a freaking highway and you don't block highways unless you want to risk death. Driving 55 mph and more you can't see people at night or around a curve.
I hope the car is ok.
Why is he in custody? Protest in road get run over...
Don’t play in traffic
Give that driver a MEDAL!!
selfdeclaredref Lemme fix that for you. Rioters, at night, blocked a highway with multiple vehicles, on a curve, wearing all black, and a driver that couldn't slow down went on the only driving area available where rioters were illegally standing.
Deliberate murder by car “Dawit Kelete of Seattle drove the car around vehicles blocking Interstate 5 & sped into the crowd...Capt. Ron Mead said Kelete was suspected to have driven the wrong way on a ramp...protesters had shut down the interstate for 19 days in a row.”
Anyone think these updates from Washington State Trooper's trafficalert changing every other hour might confuse a driver?
If your protest leads you to a freeway then you should expect to get hit by a car.
Moral of the story. Protestors lives are more important than anyone else’s. They get a free pass on anything they want and those with jobs and important things to get to, should bow. Ppl are tired of this and if they’re scared, they’ll fight back.
Stop putting peoples lives in harms way. This is not a game. Parking cars sideways in the middle of the night is crazy. It’s not about black lives matter. This is not productive. This is not helping reform. Someone die. Stop being stupid.
Imbibes standing on an expressway in the dark with no lights. The driver obviously didn’t see them till it was too late and couldn’t avoid them.
Let me get this straight... Cops shut down the road so demonstrators can protest against the cops. Crazy driver runs down protesters intentionally. Cops apprehend driver. So do they need the cops or not? I’m confused.
Article says “suspected to have driven the wrong way on a ramp.” If you drive the wrong way down a ramp and then hit two people, that’s intentional. This was targeted.
'Protest-related closure' The protesters blocked the highway..with junk and vehicles. ..notice the car trying to avoid hitting the vehicles in the middle of the freeway? (Here is photos of the illegal blocking of I5 that led to these people being hit)
Pedestrians on an interstate. Pedestrians that likely called out 'defund the police' while requesting police close the interstate for their protest and their safety. Sorry, not sorry...
Do you see police cars closing the highway? I don't
At night, no lights, no warning, on a freeway on a holiday Saturday am. Have we no common sense. This is not safe for protesters or citizens driving. It’s not an inconvenience. Two cars parked sideways is not blocking a road. Driving at night no warning, you will avoid a park car
Someone was standing in the road protesting and got hit by a car GOOD!!! 🤣😂🤣😂
There were no police cars on the freeway stopping traffic. You are all nuts. Don't block traffic. It is illegal. This is the stuff that happens.....
well, don’t block property that you do not own.
Why do we have a better description of the victims than the driver. Leads me to believe the driver was white! Probably Karen! The system is designed to protect them even when they do wrong! SMH 🤦♂️
Sounds familiar! Standard potus playbook move!
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Maybe blocking highways is a bad idea...
Washington State Patrol Capt. Ron Mead told the AP that the driver was suspected of entering the freeway via an off-ramp.
And tRump is probably totally fine with this. VoteBlueToSaveAmerica2020
the highway is for cars... 🤔
The point of protesting is to disrupt the norm. Blocking roadways is one way to do that. Murdering protestors is not a reasonable response.
Screw the protesters blocking public highways in the night. Would have done the same thing
All deaths and injuries durning these protests are in the hands of the local politicians. There is no control and the situation is chaotic.
*Protesters blocking a highway
“BLACK LIVES MAT.....THUMP 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Stop the propaganda! The road wasnt “closed” at all! There were a few idiots standing in the road, behind a couple of cars they used to partialy block an OPEN highway! Every protester there should be charged for this!
They were wearing black so I guess the driver didn't see them till the last second. If the road was closed, there should be very clear signs to state such
Great freeway 🛣
The police had the highway shut down and he had to drive the wrong way up an exit ramp to get on there. This is a targeted attack by someone who wanted to terrorize protesters to silence them.
*My hope is that in regards to this act of political terrorism the targets will be intimidated' said Mead
It wasnt closed. It was paritilly blocked by car. They stood behind it, at night, in all black. The driver didnt even seen them until it was too late. This is 100% propaganda spin
So if you are against the protests, do you support his woman driving her car through protestors?
MAGAt hypocrisy. When Trump supporters brandishing guns blocked roads to protest the shutdowns, you all thought it was great. But when people block roads to protest police brutality, you cheer while a car mows them down. Hypocrites NotThePartyOfLife NotChristian NotPatriotic
Let’s try less commie LARPing on the interstate.
Some people are just too stupid to be considered human 😬😬
Blocking traffic on a highway is NOT a peaceful protest. They get what they get when they play in traffic.
Officer there said it's illegal for protesters to block the Interstate. In video the car breaks, and tries to avoid them.
The body of this tweet is good but the headline of the linked article is not. Please use active voice when talking about motorists terrorizing people. Those women were not just hit by that car.
two protestors in Utah fired into the windhield of a vehicle attempting to hit them. And THEY were arrested! This is the current climate on the right to express your First Amendment rights in the USA. Happy 4th? Not feeling it at all.
Common sense tells me to STAY OFF THE HIGHWAY!
It looks like they tried closing it themselves from the video. Driver has to avoid two cars set up as road blocks at night. I don’t get why the driver is in custody from the video
Protesters, nope 👎🏻 criminal agitators.
You can see another car entering the stretch in the background. Obviously not shut down. There were three cars blocking the highway (two of them black) with no lights, and people stood in the only funnel opening they made wearing all black. NOT 'sped through'
Word on the street is that the driver is allegedly named Dawit Kelete, age 27, black. The fact that AP is not reporting the driver as 'white' strongly suggests this is accurate, as news orgs only report race when they are white. Maybe Dawit doesn't like Marxists?
Who exactly is allowing protests to close interstates? I assume it was an official protest and the police were on scene for traffic control?
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If an angry & irrational mob blocks a highway, what is a motorist allowed to do? What is the motorist feels threatened?
selfdeclaredref If someone has a gofundme for the driver for their legal fees please post. They should never been arrested
selfdeclaredref And the driver was..............................
The white car traveling at a high rate of speed navigate around two vehicles positioned across the lanes as a barrier. So it was intentional domestic terrorism.
Interstate 5 closure? by whom? FAKE NEWS. AP is part of the problem
Lot of people in this thread ready to kill their fellow Americans over being inconvenienced.
To everyone in the comments section: you don’t get to kill people just because you don’t like what they are doing. There is some serious serial killer energy here. I hope your friends and neighbors are aware of how much you’re clamoring to kill people
No one should ever be hit with a car. But c'mon, this is happening all the time, get out of the road. You can't get hit by a car in the middle of the road if you're not standing there.
That’s what happens when you break the law and put yourself in danger by illegally blocking streets at night. Protestors, when they get out of the hospital, should be charged and should have to pay the driver to fix the dents on his hood.
I feel bad for the driver, you could see him trying to avoid those clowns but he’s still going to be harassed by retards even though he did nothing wrong.
This is what happens when you have a Democratic governor who is too stupid to keep people off the highways and a State patrol who obviously have their hands tied by politicians. The idiots who are blocking interstates deserve whatever comes their way including injury and death.
Lol!!
Only idiots stand in the roadway.
Didn't you learn when you were kids to not play in the streets? Here's your sign.
If you don't wanna be hit by a car stay the fuck off the roads. Just because you want to be out in the streets whining about stuff doesn't mean other people should be forced to listen or be otherwise disrupted.
Go home!
Stop playing in the highway.
You know why you can’t get in touch with Diaz? Because she was one of the 2 people hit by that car! That’s why you can’t reach her! That’s why her stream ended abruptly.
😂😂😂😂🤣
How about not blocking streets so that honest, law abiding citizens can travel freely as they have every right to do?
Alexa, play 'I Believe I Can Fly' by R. Kelly.
Only one thing he did wrong. Anyone guess?
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Protesting on a highway.. No pity for those stupid people.
'Washington State Patrol apologizes for officer’s ‘Don’t kill them, but hit them hard’ instruction regarding Seattle protesters' Not sure they are trying to keep anyone safe.
Dont walk on highways
Free the driver
Terrorist Attack by the right wing
If the road was closed, why were Antifa thugs on it?
You block a highway at 2:30 am, good things won’t happen.
That’s not a “closure”, that’s multiple counts of felony obstruction.
Remember the old days when these incidents happened and it was an accident and always a senior citizen driving and we all felt bad for all the parties. I miss those days.
Sounds intentional to me.
What is a protest-related closure?
screeching tires before an attack?
Remind me again? What’s a highway for?
What the hell is a protest related closure on the highway? Do you mean someone illegally blocking traffic on a one-way highway preventing people from escaping and holding them effectively hostage?
These aren’t protesters. There’s nothing to protest. Well maybe abortions. They’re being paid to disrupt US life. Disrupt theirs.
Local police statement on what happened:
Wow what a misleading headline. The driver hits the breaks and swerved to the left to avoid the protesters wearing all black, unfortunately they couldn’t see them behind the van blocking the road. Watch the tape.
The video is up on twitter, it brings joy
If you stand in the middle of the interstate at night what do you think is going to happen?!! Journalist filth are pathetic.
Someone took the saying 'why don't you go play in traffic' a bit too literally.....
Illegal highway roadblocks at night are now 'protest-related closure' Get. The. Fuck. Out. With. This. Bullshit. Right. Meow.
Why is driver in trouble? They were on a highway at night which is illegal.
Bias alert - true story- protestors blocked a major freeway which is a crime and attacked the driver after driver ran over these criminals
Probably should not block a highway, at night, while wearing black, and then move into the oath of a car.
It wasn't a 'closure'--a bunch of dimwitted poseurs were milling around on an Interstate and the entirely predictable happened. I hope the driver wasn't hurt.
Why are pedestrians standing in the middle of I-5? At night?
DONT PLAY IN TRAFFIC. Why do these morons have to be TOLD that ParentFail
The roads are for driving not walking.
Mobs!
You hate to see it.
Please fix your headline. This was an illegal road closure,and that lady was traveling at highway speed. She shouldn’t be charged, but the protestors should. CityofSeattle will be writing her a check for failing to remove the illegal closure.
The obvious solution is to ban full-auto assault cars, right? Or, you know, maybe stop fucking blocking the roads?
I knew not to play in the street when I was 4
Another nazi trumpturd killing protestors.
They should have stayed home. Tip
Hey look, I don't want to appear racist or anything, but a white late model jaguar on a closed highway speeding, plowing through people and not stopping is definitely a high as a kite black guy, right?
People pay taxes so that the public hand can keep a certain minimum of order...
Why are they on the interstate. It’s a highway.
One of Trump's very fine people. MAGAMorons
Mt Mom taught me to stay out of the road or I might get hit by a car.
There are probably 15 thousand other places you can stage a protest and why do it on the freeway? Are they are brain dead?
Guess they shouldn't have been standing putting drivers at risk.
Good !
They aren't protesters if they are on the highway which is illegal for all pedestrian citizens
Sooooo
Probably didn't know the Highway was closed. Couldn't see the protestors for the Van. One video indicates protestors being notified that a car was coming.
Watch the video for yourself. AP is obscuring what they are telling you by omission and by calling it a closed road. I hope the pedestrians survive.
So or he gets killed, burned, beaten by the communist directed mobs in coordination with local democrats or tryed to save himself and family and gets arrested ? How about going after the communist that are testing to take over the US?
Good.
Driver should be released. Demonstrator should be given Darwin award. Everybody wins.
It was an illegal blockade. Protest related closure is incorrect terminology.
Don’t block the interstate, don’t get run over. Pretty simple.
So if you stop for the protesters you might get dragged out of your car and beaten, if you try to escape you get arrested. Not much of a choice.
i have an idea, don't f'n protest on highways
Why is this article worded to say the “highway was closed because of the protests” as if it was officially closed by the police. The “protesters” illegally blocked the highway where cars drive. They need to stop doing that and they should be arrested for doing it.
Roadblocks set up for the purpose of shooting people in their cars is not a 'protest-related closure.' These are violent fascists and they need to be arrested, tried, and punished to the fullest extent the law allows.
The age of the White Jaguar has arrived. Stay off the fucking freeway and protest in well lit areas.
Why are people “protesting” on a highway? Sounds incredible stupid & dangerous. Time to cut off unemployment benefits so these prople can get back to work.
Get the hell out of the way
No one has the right to block roads and prevent Americans from freely moving across the country. Anyone preventing another from moving freely must be prosecuted. Once a person blocks a road they are no longer peacefully protesting, they are committing a crime.
Headlights heading towards you should be a clue.
We all need to have more respect for one another. Don't do things that cause harm to others, it's so easy to change the course of someone else's life and your own - just don't do it, be patient with others.
I hope the driver is okay! DemocratsAreDestroyingAmerica JobsNotMobs LiberalismIsAMentalDisorder
We all need to have more respect for one another. Don't do things that cause harm to others, it's so easy to change the course of someone else's live and your own - just don't do it be patient with others.
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Good
Perhaps ppl shouldn’t be blocking highways Highways are for vehicles 🚗 trucks not ppl walking around .... just saying
GOOD.
What the hell are you doing in a highway?
Wait we tell our kids not to play in the street but these idiots think it’s ok to march down a highway? Don’t get also think it’s ok to walk in the middle of train tracks?
This is what they do when people protest.. all these politicians, either Communists or fascist.. doing the same in every country.. shunning people who are raising voices against them
People standing on a freeway and the driver is in custody? Crazy stupid!
Death penalty for the driver.
“A protest-related closure”? Oh FFS just write the truth, “protesters unlawfully blocking a highway were run over by an innocent driver!”
Tragic. Hatred is a sickness that runs deep.
Say it with me, get the fuck off the road
Reminder that The Daily Caller, the Tucker Carlson publication, promoted and glorified this exact style of vehicular assault and homicide. One of the most blatantly shameful things they've done since it was pulled for the obvious liability created.
First!!!!! that's what you get, feel good now!!! Stay out of the road morons!!
Say it with me. Domestic. Terrorism.
That is one of Trump's 'fine people'.
get off the freeways
RememberReginaldDenny TerroristLivesSplatter
hopefully the car is ok. screw the domestic terrorists that were injured
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