A vehicle drove through protesters outside of the Seattle West Precinct police station, striking at least three protesters with reports of at least one injured. A group from Seattle’s Every Day March, on their 151st day of protest were outside of the police station when a car exited from a parking garage and drove through the crowd. Reports from the scene indicate the driver is an Amazon security guard, who was asked by protesters to drive a different route but instead drove through the group. Seattle Police are reporting they have a driver in custody.
Earlier reports of Seattle car brigade drivers being ticketed appear to be untrue based on video from the scene, with drivers issued written warnings.
Among the victims was a person who was with Summer Taylor and Diaz Love on July 4, when Taylor was killed and Love gravely injured in an early morning motor vehicle attack while protesting on Interstate 5. Washington State Patrol had closed the freeway, but left access to the off-ramps open.
Video shows a large group outside of the precinct, and screams of terror as the car drove through the protesters. After there was a scene of chaos with Seattle Police working on issuing written warnings to the car brigade drivers and later harassing Every Day March leaders while they were trying to leave.
This is at least the sixth car attack against protesters in Seattle since June 7, 2020. Nikolas Fernandez drove his car into protesters on June 7, shooting one in the arm before surrendering to the police. Fernandez has been charged with felony assault. Retired Seattle police officer Molly Clark drove her car through a Seattle protest while hurling racial slurs. Clark retired from the Seattle Police Department was never charged. A Doordash driver drove through the bike brigade during a march, clipping a person and destroying a bike. That driver was never charged. Dawit Kelete drove his Jaguar SUV into protesters on I-5 in the early morning hours of July 4. He was arrested and has been charged with vehicular homicide and reckless driving.
Seattle Municipal Code Section12A.12.015(A)(4) allows protesters and vehicles to block traffic and be in the street while exercising their First Amendment rights.
Renee Raketty contributed to this story.
Don’t block traffic. If your parents would have raised you right this wouldn’t have happened. So many stupid people.😂😂😂
Here’s a video showing what happened before https://twitter.com/i/status/1321330061383929856 the video in this article is disingenuous in its editing of the event and should be removed.
Well that’s what happens when you put your self @risk, and get in front of a moving car, especially if you’re not a cop,, see sometimes you get more than you ask for and when you put yourself in front of a moving vehicle you’re asking for trouble as the old saying goes that’s what you get.
I would love to see the full video to see if the narrative in this clip and article is truthful. Most of these horrendous situations are started because protestors are attaching people as they drive their vehicles.
Both the commentors above me are obviously drunk on boot polish.
The protestors have a RIGHT to be in the street–as notated in the municipal code in the article. And drivers do NOT have the right to run them over. Anyone who thinks otherwise might need to have their drivers liscense revoked.
That whole idea of protestors attacking drivers is bs as well. People have stepped in–once a driver has assaulted, or pulled a weapon–to try and stop that driver from bringing violence to a peaceful demonstration. But to call that self defensive action violence in order to justify the attacks that preceded it is…shitbaggery.
Dont be a shitbag. Protect Americans right to peaceful assembly. Or just admit that you hate America.