Two seattle protesters are run over while standing in the road at night.

If these protesters are smart, they'd go block train tracks instead. Then when BLM and lefties whine and cry that the train hit them, we can all laugh with glee at the stupidity.

 

I'll never understand why governments shut down highways for protests. Which I assume you now know is what happened here.

 

I’m keeping with the General Left Socialist axiom: “It’s not my fault” , the relatives of the deceased traffic blockers should sue the automobile manufacturer for making such a dangerous weapon as the car driven by the drunk driver.

 

He wasn't drunk. He was only a moron.

It's just that the nutjob "protesters" were moroner.

 

Really?

Er...

The, so-called protesters, are leftist nutjobs. In that, they share a commonality with their local governments.

It's not any more difficult than that.

 

Yeah, I probably should've thought of that!

 

I have also seen people who got confused, and ended up driving in the wrong direction for the road.

In this instance it was at night, so it's possible the driver did not see the people in the street, and by the time he did, his reaction was to swerve left, away from the majority of the people who were on the right side of the highway.

The highway was lit with those orange sodium lights. Those types of lights make it hard to see, and detail and depth perception are also lost. People can make this guy out to be a murderer, but he may have just been confused and in the wrong place at the wrong time. But since we live in the kneee-jerk, lynch mob mindset of the cancel culture, he will be assumed to have purposely set out to murder people, and pronounced guilty before any evidence is presented, much less waiting for a fair trial.

 

He's a murderer.

Turn him over to the CHAZ mob and let them Lynch him.

The irony would be amazing.

 

If it were the TEA Party protesting, they sure as hell would not be as gracious. But the left can damage 1,500 building in just one city, assault, shoot, murder loot, burn and destroy private and public property, and the news media and Democrat politicians will call them "mostly peaceful."

 

He swerved around a police barricade to get to the protesters

 

You are assuming that he was trying to "get to the protesters." I've seen people drive thru and around construction barriers on the highway, because they were confused. But whatever, you are free to join the lynch mob.

What police barriers are you talking about? If he was driving in the wrong direction, wouldn't that mean that the writings on those barricades would have been facing in the other direction? So it's possible any warnings they were depicting were facing away from him, so he did not know what they were for.

 

"
Three days later, Kelete -- traveling at "freeway speeds" -- drove his white Jaguar XJL the wrong way up an Interstate 5 exit ramp just before 1:36 a.m., security footage from an REI store shows, according to the complaint.
The driver had to make a "deliberate and sharp right U-turn in order to drive (southbound) on I-5," the document says, adding that "numerous red signs warning that the driver is going the Wrong Way and Do Not Enter" were posted.
Kelete then drove toward a three-vehicle barricade put up by demonstrators before maneuvering onto the right shoulder. He continued driving at "freeway speeds" on the shoulder, passing the barricade as pedestrians tried to get out of the way, the complaint states.
Kelete then veered left sharply, directly hitting Taylor and another protester, Diaz Love, 32, according to the complaint. Both were taken to Harborview Medical Center, where Taylor later died."

Are you another one of those who felt it hilarious that a person died and another one is critical?

 

Now you are just being a troll. I'm not even going to dignify your last disgusting comment with a response.

I'm just asking that people look at the facts and evidence, and wait for the truth, and you want to make assumptions as to the driver's motives. He may well be all the evil things you assume, if so, he will be punished accordingly, by the court, not the lynch mob.

We know what happened at the end of all of that, what we don't know is why it happened. You make a lot of assumptions at the exclusion of any other explanations.

 

I did not make any assumptions. My extract above is from the charge sheet. As for the "disgusting" comment, have a look at page one and the 6 posters who liked the hilarity of the event

 

Yes you did, which is why you directed that insulting comment at me. You seem upset with me because I'm refusing to rush to conclusions and assume this man purposely decided to drive the wrong way on a highway, ran thru barricades, so he could run over protesters. There are evil people in the world, but let's not leap to conclusions.

 

You wrote "You make a lot of assumptions at the exclusion of any other explanations." . I did not make any assumptions about the event. From the charge sheet:
"The driver had to make a "deliberate and sharp right U-turn in order to drive (southbound) on I-5," the document says, adding that "numerous red signs warning that the driver is going the Wrong Way and Do Not Enter" were posted."

 

What was the location of that police barricade and what did that barricade consist of?

Was there a police presence with cartop emergency beacon lights flashing?

 

The Opie is trying to falsely claim best of people were standing in an active roadway.
That's a complete lie and he knows it. The road was shut down and blocked off the driver with through a block, and was driving at very high speeds, and, according to witnesses, he made no effort to slow down or avoid hitting the people. Investigators are treating it as first degree murder.

 

I agree.

Get a rope, and lynch the man.

For justice.

 

But the man is innocent. And besides that he is an immigrant. He should have made a run for sanctuary and got used to bad food.

 

And let's not forget that the protesters were not illegally demonstrating in the road, that's some on the right have openly claimed. they had a legal permit to block the road is part of their protest.

it was government officials who have ordered the block put in place to keep drivers off of the road, I'm the driver in question had driven right through one of those blocks.

 

I don't believe that is true; although the reporting is unclear.

The way I read it, there was a police barricade on the on-ramp; so, he bypassed it by using the off-ramp.

 

"And let's not forget that the protesters were not illegally demonstrating in the road, that's some on the right have openly claimed. they had a legal permit to block the road is part of their protest."

Can you provide a source for that?

I have one which states otherwise:

"Listen, what happened this morning is a tragedy. I mean, it is a true tragedy,” Captain Ron Mead, commander of WSP field operations for District 2, said. “But what is occurring out here is unlawful behavior. It is illegal to block an interstate. Plain and simple. And the fact that this occurred for 19 days in a row. It needs to end. It needs to come to a stop.”"

https://www.capitolhillseattle.com/...-black-lives-matter-crowd-during-i-5-protest/

 

It appears that only the on-ramps were barricaded by police vehicles. What has been reported on the charge sheet is this:

"The driver had to make a "deliberate and sharp right U-turn in order to drive (southbound) on I-5," the document says, adding that "numerous red signs warning that the driver is going the Wrong Way and Do Not Enter" were posted."