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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 o

> 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.

AnthonyMouse 6y ago
> 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.
- magicalist 6y ago
  Yes, "interesting" what narratives people emphasize without evidence to support their worldview. ...
gluoneone 6y ago
> You mean the police blocked the interstate for the protest ....because the protestors were on the freeway... > Police showed up after a civilian followed the car, yes. Did the police or the civilian arrest the driver? > they're not really parallel in spatial, personal, or temporal scope. Space: Seattle Time: BLM protests Story arc: I shouldn’t have to spell this out
amscanne 6y ago
> 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).
- magicalist 6y ago
  > 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.
  - amscanne 6y ago
    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.
- fzeroracer 6y ago
  > 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.
  - 6nf 6y ago
    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?
    - fzeroracer 6y ago
      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 https://twitter.com/4t4r11/status/1279470869774061568?s=20

AnthonyMouse 6y ago

> 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.

magicalist 6y ago
Yes, "interesting" what narratives people emphasize without evidence to support their worldview. ...

gluoneone 6y ago

> You mean the police blocked the interstate for the protest ....because the protestors were on the freeway... > Police showed up after a civilian followed the car, yes. Did the police or the civilian arrest the driver? > they're not really parallel in spatial, personal, or temporal scope. Space: Seattle Time: BLM protests Story arc: I shouldn’t have to spell this out

amscanne 6y ago

> 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).

magicalist 6y ago
> 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.
- amscanne 6y ago
  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.
fzeroracer 6y ago
> 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.
- 6nf 6y ago
  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?
  - fzeroracer 6y ago
    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 https://twitter.com/4t4r11/status/1279470869774061568?s=20