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Two very interesting timeline, kind of encapsulates up the whole incident in general

1.)

- Seattle mayor lets capital hill to be seized by protestors

- President trump tweets wanting to send troops in

- mayor tweets to tell president to butt out

- protestors settled in.

- few folks were shot

- mayor allows “freedom of speech”

- a councilwoman encourages protestors to march towards the mayors house. They do.

- The mayor dismantles CHOP

2.)

- BLM protestors block freeway At 2am, demanding police to be dismantled

- car runs over protestors and kills/maims

- police chases down and arrest the driver

- no real news coverage. Because the driver is black

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> BLM protestors block freeway At 2am, demanding police to be dismantled

You mean the police blocked the interstate for the protest and the driver went up an off ramp and struck two protestors, killing one.

> police chases down and arrest the driver

Police showed up after a civilian followed the car, yes.

> no real news coverage

By which you mean extensive national and international news coverage (seriously, just search for it) but it still hasn't been made clear why the driver was on the highway.

Comparing these two "timelines" maybe gives more insight about you than any "incident", because they're not really parallel in spatial, personal, or temporal scope.

> You mean the police blocked the interstate for the protest

This makes me so sad.

I’m in no way excusing the driver (who will undoubtedly receive punishment), but after 19 consecutive days of walking onto the freeway, and the city effectively supporting it, some kind of accident was bound to happen at some point. It’s terrible, but I hope there’s some lessons to be learned (the city seems to have learned something, as they stopped allowing the nightly freeway protests).

> I’m in no way excusing the driver (who will undoubtedly receive punishment), but after 19 consecutive days of walking onto the freeway, and the city effectively supporting it, some kind of accident was bound to happen at some point

Yes, someone driving onto a highway via an off ramp is bound to lead to an accident.

Again: I’m not excusing the obviously dangerous behavior of the driver.

However, people do stupid and reckless things all the time — and as a society we take reasonable precautions against that. I don’t know why he ended up on that road, but it was only a matter of time before someone ended up there. I sincerely doubt that freeways are shut down flawlessly 100% of the time.

> some kind of accident was bound to happen at some point.

This seems to be burying the lede quite a bit. This wasn't an 'accident', this was someone driving up an off-ramp, turning around, driving past multiple vehicles which were in the way to protect protesters and swerving into them.

The problem wasn't with the nightly freeway protest, it was with the person committing outright vehicular homicide.

You can't be serious. That black man that killed the protestor on the freeway was in no way intentionally ramming into the people. He was driving along a freeway. He did his best to miss the people but they were everywhere!

You think he did this ON PURPOSE? Are you for real? What's his motive?

You realize there's video of the incident at hand, right [1] (not safe for the squeamish)? You can see the driver drive by multiple obvious vehicles on the shoulder of the highway, then swerve into protesters. They weren't 'everywhere' as you claim, he literally drive right into them. He didn't 'do his best to miss them' by swerving into them. Anyone else in that exact situation would've seen the vehicles like that from a mile away and slowed down safely.

This is before we even start talking about that the highway was closed and that he had to take an off-ramp onto it and then do a u-turn, which was corroborated by the police. Though I have a feeling you won't respond again after this.

[1] https://twitter.com/4t4r11/status/1279470869774061568?s=20

I did watch the video. I know the guy was likely speeding, and I don't know how he got onto the road.

He swerved to miss the car on the road, lost control and hit two people. That's what I'm seeing in that video.

Do I think he was TRYING to kill people? No. Definitely not. But let's wait for the court case I guess.

He didn't swerve to miss the cars. At the start of the video he was already driving on the shoulder of the freeway (indicating that he clearly saw the cars on the road and chose to drive by them at high speeds). He wasn't even in the proper lane. Once he bypassed those cars, he then proceeded to swerve into the two protesters on the left hand side of his car. Rather than slamming on the breaks, he ran full speed into them.

And again, per your own admission, he was speeding. On a freeway that was closed. Where he was caught with multiple cameras driving up the wrong entrance and then doing a U-Turn.

Occam's Razor would indicate that this was not an accident at all because there's so many confounding factors that it would be absurd.

You’re inventing a narrative. Available evidence suggests he didn’t set out to murder people, but I think little more is known.

Unquestionably he was reckless and dangerous at a minimum (and the charges make sense to me). I don’t think it’s known why he went up the off ramp. Maybe drugs were involved (apparently police took something “that looked like meth” from the car, per an article I read). But bad assumptions, panic and confusion are also powerful.

Just wait for the real story.

Without giving my personal opinion on what this video shows, I think it's quite interesting that two people can come to totally opposite opinions about what it shows. I think you're probably both earnest in your opinions too.

Very true. It must be hard to be a fair and impartial judge.

> it still hasn't been made clear why the driver was on the highway.

This is the most interesting thing about the event. If the driver hadn't been black, even if their true (still unknown) motivations had been identical -- mental illness, for example -- the narrative would have been very different.

Yes, "interesting" what narratives people emphasize without evidence to support their worldview.

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- police chases down and arrest the driver

It does not seem the perpetrator was running from the police, so they did not "chase" him. Accounts show that he was avoiding the protesters and police would him very quickly once he got to safety.

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