re: Headline: Protester dies hours after being hit hit by wrong-way Seattle freeway driver

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It truly boggles my mind that protesters were being allowed on an interstate. Washington itself has some culpability here if you ask me.

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No argument from me on that point. The entire political leadership in Seattle seems committed to performing ritual hara-kiri as a functioning and viable city:

VIDEO: Seattle is Dying....

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ABC-KOMO's Eric Johnson explores the impact the drug and homelessness problem is having on our city and possible solutions in "Seattle is Dying."

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It most certainly does. The point here is there were several news outlets that reported that the driver was going the wrong way when the accident occurred. As more information has become available, that clearly was not the case.

Likewise, there were several initial reports that indicated the accident itself occurred as a result of the driver driving the wrong way up an exit ramp. It now appears the driver may have accessed the highway by going the wrong way on an exit ramp but the accident itself occurred as the driver was driving in the correct direction on the freeway. Indeed, the direct cause of the accident happened because the driver apparently swerved to avoid parked vehicles blocking the travel lanes.

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All you're doing is telling me my own story which I've been clear on the entire time.

YOU claimed that the media claimed that the protesters were "only trying to block a ramp, but that they were clearly trying to block all lanes". This is non-sensical - and was non-sensical when you first said it. And now you are just ignoring the fact that you said it and talking about other irrelevant nonsense.

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Putting that all aside, the protesters who illegally accessed and illegally blocked the highway are as much to blame for the woman’s death as the driver of the car. As both a legal and moral matter, those protesters should face some degree of culpability for their contribution to the death and serious injury of their fellow protestors.

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Here is how I would order the culpability:

1 - mayor
2 - driver
3 - protesters

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Not only stupid, but illegal. Whatever the actions of the driver leading up to the deadly collision, I fail to understand how any rational person can argue against the reality that the protesters’ own actions contributed to the deadly accident.

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Of course they contributed. Who is arguing against that?

From page 7

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The first image below is a day-light photo of the accident scene posted by the AP.

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YOU claimed that the media claimed that the protesters were "only trying to block a ramp, but that they were clearly trying to block all lanes". This is non-sensical - and was non-sensical when you first said it. And now you are just ignoring the fact that you said it and talking about other irrelevant nonsense.

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Once again, many initial media reports indicated that the accident occurred because the driver was going the wrong way on the highway or had hit the protesters while illegally driving up an exit ramp. That is not what happened.

Now whether these reports were intentionally misleading or not, such reporting seemed to indicate the deadly accident happened primarily because of some illegal action by the driver. That narrative is false.

The fact the protesters were protesting illegally on the interstate is far from “ irrelevant nonsense.” It is the main contributing factor to why one woman is dead and another is hospitalized.