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.
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.
Kelete was described by officers as reserved and sullen when he was arrested, according to court documents. He also asked if the pedestrians were OK, the documents say. Officials were trying to determine the motive as well as where he got onto the freeway, which had been closed by the State Patrol for more than an hour before the protesters were hit. Mead said they suspect Kelete drove the wrong way on a ramp. Trooper Rick Johnson said the driver went through a barrier that closed the freeway.
Seattle has been the site of prolonged unrest after the May 25 police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, which sparked nationwide protests. Dozens of peoplein connection with protests as demonstrations continue after authorities cleared the “Capitol Hill Occupied Protest” zone Wednesday morning.The State Patrol responded by closing sections of the interstate to keep drivers and protesters safe.
Too bad a whole crowd wasn’t there to dive in front of the car
Dear headline writer: did the *car* do this? Or was it a person? BeBest
One of the ways journalists shield people from accountability is when you assign agency to vehicles, as though the car was unoccupied and acted alone. It's called zombie car report6. DriverNotCar WindshieldBias APStylebook
Who tell this people is a good idea to do that?
Speed bumps.
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Wow, that's one heck of a car to be driving itself like that. Seriously, what even is this headline?
Self-driven car are such a god damned menace.
..So take away the driving-license of the driver. Give a number of logins to cab-services Let 'em go free... Maybe that is fit and just. Of course they can't make up for the killed-person's duties, who will just have to be reborn and continue what they were interrupted in.
Was it one of those self-driving cars, or should you do a better job of writing headlines?
So guns don't kill people, people kill people...but cars? That's a completely different story.
Somebody should do something about that car...
Check your work... it sloppy.
A car...drove?
“Mom!” —Dave Crabtree
Damn. That’s some automatic car right there. No driver needed.
Stupid people protesting in a DARK FREEWAY 🤣🤣
Don't block freeways or roads. Not sorry. Stupid tax cost them their lives.
Playing angry gender bender anarchist on the interstate is simply bad planning. If that was the I-5 in LA they’d all be dead.
Cars don’t drive, people drive
How about a driver swerved to avoid vehicles parked illegally on highway and accidentally hit people dressed in black that ran in front of his car
It was a person. A person driving a car.
WTF with the passive voice here. And the perpetrator’s name is buried far into the article.
Was it this car?
Wow, all on it's own? Boy, cars these days huh, doing all these crazy things without drivers
Amazing that a car was able to do so much damage with nobody behind the wheel. Automation maybe isn't the way forward.
A car?
Let me fix that for you, 'A car was driven onto a closed freeway and into a crowd of protesters, killing one person and critically injuring another.' This is shameful, clean up your mess and do better!!
A car drove?
bayofarizona 'a car drove' Oh shit was it a self-driving Tesla car?! Or was it a driver and the media likes to implicitly remove culpability from motorists when they kill someone? The even bigger failure was the existence of the freeway in the first place.
A car did that all by itself? Language matters.
Freeways are made for cars...
Amazing that the car did this of its own volition
Routine Stuff WSP knows that more people are out drinking and driving during the holidays. WSP gets involved to promote public safety before lives are lost. Why did protests on I-5 go on for 19 nights?
Should have stayed home.
I would beg my daughter not to protest any matter by walking on a freeway and blocking traffic. Right or wrong, you are putting yourself into a potentially life or death situation, just like this one. People are fed up and not thinking rationally.
A person driving a jaguar knows their power, knows their precision. Has anyone ever driven one? There isn’t a way to accidentally hit a group of people in a Jag. The brakes stop on a dime.
There was no driver? Just a car
“Dawit Kelete of Seattle drove the car around vehicles that were blocking I-5 and sped into the crowd about 1:40 a.m.”
It drove itself?
'closed' = 'blocked illegally by protesters who think they have a right to force you to listen to them'. Hope the one that didn't make it is enjoying Hell and the one who hasn't knocked off yet doesn't recover. Dose of reality. You don't have a right to protest this way
One less freak
There are 2 choices & from what happened here in Louisville Kentucky you either move or get moved!!!!! I feel bad because someone lost their life but you don’t block the road & don’t expect any consequences!!!!
Here you go. Watch the liberal media drop this story
Walk on a Interstate... expect to be hit by a car... It's that simple that even Liberals can understand.
No racialized headline ? When it no longer fits your narrative ... FakeNews
ReneeVoiceBrand The car was driving itself?!
Protesters trying to block highways at night at fault. Has to be frightening for drivers with family
Please show picture of disgruntled white man
Any arrests?
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