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On the early morning of July 4, a car drove onto a closed section of Interstate 5, where several people were protesting, and struck two protesters. 23-year-old Summer Taylor from Seattle was killed, while 32-year-old Diaz Love of Portland, Oregon, who was live-streaming the protest on Facebook, remained for a time in critical condition at ...
Capitol Hill is a densely populated residential district on a steep hill just east of Seattle's downtown business district, known for its prominent LGBT and counterculture communities and its vibrant nightlife. The Seattle Police Department had been protested against in the past.
A wave of civil unrest in the United States, initially triggered by the murder of George Floyd during his arrest by Minneapolis police officers on May 25, 2020, led to protests and riots against systemic racism in the United States, [8] [9] including police brutality and other forms of violence. [10]
It was supposed to celebrate unity and harmony but turned into three days of debauched OD’ing, rape-infused mosh pits and life-threatening heat exhaustion and dehydration that overwhelmed the ...
A later investigation by KUOW showed that miscommunication between Seattle Police and Seattle Fire delayed city response to the victim. [125] June 29: In Seattle, a 16-year-old boy was killed and a 14-year-old was critically injured in their Jeep Grand Cherokee after being shot in the Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP) zone. [105] [106] [126]
Protests and riots have been ongoing in Baltimore since the April 12 death of Freddie Gray while he was in police custody. The unrest has resulted in hundreds of arrests as well as looting, fires ...
Seattle television news station KOMO reported "protesters also were smashing windows, looting and throwing projectiles" and Interstate 405 was closed through downtown Bellevue. [29] During the protests, "dozens of people" characterized by local news station KING as "looters" broke into Bellevue Square , the largest shopping mall in Bellevue ...
George Floyd protests Part of the United States racial unrest (2020–2023) and the Black Lives Matter movement Clockwise from top: Protesters in Minneapolis where George Floyd was murdered and the unrest began Police and National Guard at a protest in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Bystanders and firefighters at a torched street in Minneapolis Protest near the Multnomah County Justice Center in ...