1:41
- ABC News
- July 6, 2020
Protester struck by car on closed freeway dies
One other demonstrator hit by the luxury vehicle was critically injured.
1:41
Following the episode, authorities cleared I-5 and warned protesters that anyone caught attempting to march on to the freeway will be arrested.
\"The freeway is simply not a safe place ... We feared something like this would happen,\" Mead said.
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Mead said the driver was initially arrested on charges of vehicular assault and felony hit-and-run. Kelete remained in jail without bail on Sunday.
\"Those [charges] could be upgraded depending on the progress of the investigation,\" Mead said.
Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan said in a tweet that \"many others were almost hit and witnessed this horrific event.\"
Early this morning two women were hit by a car and very seriously injured while peacefully protesting. Many others were almost hit and witnessed this horrific event. Our city stands beside their friends, families and loved ones in praying for these women and all who were there.
— Mayor Jenny Durkan (@MayorJenny) July 4, 2020
Prior to news of Taylor's death, friends had established a GoFundMe page in hopes of helping Taylor recover from the injuries.
\"Summer is an incredibly strong and independent spirit,\" wrote Becky Gilliam, who organized the GoFundMe page that as of Monday morning had raised more than $62,000.
Gilliam wrote that Taylor worked at a veterinary clinic and described Taylor as a \"bright and caring person who's presence elicits joy and laughter in others.\"
For weeks, law enforcement authorities have warned pedestrian protesters not to use the highways as the setting for demonstrations.
The section of Interstate 5 through downtown Seattle has been closed multiple times in recent weeks due to large-scale protests.
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Taylor was pronounced dead after being taken to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. Love of Bellingham, Washington, was in serious condition at Harborview, Mead said.
Love had been broadcasting the protest for about two hours on Facebook Live under the caption \"Black Femme March takes I-5.\" The video ended abruptly after someone, according to the Associated Press, is heard yelling, \"Car!\"
State police said the suspect continued to drive south on the freeway and was chased by a protester in a car for about a mile before managing to get in front of the Jaguar and forcing it to pull over.
The incident came about a month after a man allegedly drove a car drove through a barricade and brandished a gun at a group of protesters that had commandeered a section of Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood and turned it into an autonomous zone. Following several shootings, police cleared out the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest zone, or CHOP zone, last week.
ABC News' William Mansell and Christina Carrega contributed to this report.
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