UPDATE: Someone ran the Jaguar's plates and found the owner is a 27-year-old black man. Police said the driver is a 27-year-old which suggests it could be the same person but I'm holding off on identifying them until it's confirmed.
UPDATE II: Police confirmed the driver is 27-year-old Dawit Kelete. (Pictured above.)
Video out of Seattle taken at around 1:30 AM early Saturday morning shows two protesters getting hit by a car that was driving around a curved highway with poor visibility at night.
Moment before impact at the BLM protest in Seattle. The protest had gone on for almost 2 hours, moving from street to street before reaching the highway, where they parked vans on the road and prepared to block vehicles. With the van obscuring the road, few saw the car coming.
This is one hundred percent the protesters’ fault for blocking traffic and running behind those vehicles where any incoming driver could not have possibly known they were. Likewise, they probably couldn’t see the car coming when they ran into its path.
The driver did not accelerate or hit the protesters on purpose. You can see the driver apply the brakes right before they clear the van, once the protesters come into view.
A protester was seen attacking the driver after the incident:
Blocking traffic at night around a curved road while wearing mostly dark clothing is a terrible idea.
The media is no doubt waiting to learn the race and political ideology of the driver before deciding whether to blow this up into a big story.