The driver has been charged in the death of a Seattle protester who was hit by a car

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A driver has been charged in the death of Summer Taylor, a 24-year-old protester killed during a demonstration on a closed highway on July Fourth in Seattle

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Dawit Kelete, 27, has been charged with vehicular homicide, vehicular assault and reckless driving. Prosecutors requested $1.2 million bail, the criminal complaint filed in King County, Washington, Superior Court states. Kelete was booked Saturday into the county jail. His attorney did not immediately respond to CNN's request for comment.

 

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No defense for the driver and condolence to Summer Taylor. Was the street really blocked by police? Usually if police stops on an interstate or highway I’m usually blinded by the flashing light, especially at night. I didn’t see anything like that on the video.

Why should the driver be charged for the protestors' stupidy to be in a dangerous location! Protest at your own risk near freeways!

Interesting that these people are constantly allowed to dance around and blOck off chunks of highways and city streets. Charge the people that got Taylor out on the highway, and killed. Seems neglectful on their part.

America, Here Is Your Redpill ......

What is the race of the driver and victim? Is this a federal hate crime?

That's the climax of it.

Road Pizza Deserved It.

Define “closed highway”.

You all are the real racists

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A black man runs over a white woman who is illegally and violently blocking a major freeway at night in the name of BLM. There's so much irony here.

Nothing to see here. Just a colorless driver

Get off the roads!

Should’ve run them all over. They’re terrorists

Why do you leave out the race when the suspect is black? 🤔

Now, arrest Breonna Taylor's murderers.

Just 'a driver' now that the ethnicity didn't fit into the preferred narrative.

Here come the kids with the fishing profile pics

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