Police Seeking Motive After Driver Hits Protesters, Killing One on Seattle Freeway

Police Seeking Motive After Driver Hits Protesters, Killing One on Seattle Freeway
Emergency workers tend to an injured person on the ground after a driver struck two protesters on I-5 in Seattle, Wash., on July 4, 2020. James Anderson via AP
Jack Phillips
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The Seattle Police Department said it is trying to determine the motive of a driver who struck two Black Lives Matter protesters who were part of a crowd of protesters blocking Interstate 5.

Summer Taylor, 24, was killed when the driver, Dawit Kelete, drove around vehicles that blocked I-5 and hit the crowd at around 1:40 a.m., a police report said. Video footage showed people yelling, “Car! Car!” before the car struck Taylor and Diaz Love, 32.

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