Judging by the picture of the driver posted below, I'd say the odds are pretty low that he's a Trumpanzee.

He hasn't created anything but chaos.

Because the driver is black and the victims are white?

Posts about motive may be premature

But lets just roll out the racist stereotypes anyway.

According to you it could only be from dealing drugs or a rich parent.

Heaven forbid a 27 year old black man might just be, well, smart and successful.

Awfully presumptuous of you.

He's still a piece of shit.

They are, in fact, right above your post.

This isn't the first time the "Purity Police" have come after me here.

That was some racist shit.

Please remove.

Doing a lot of alerting.

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Driving at interstate speeds, which means faster than the limit. Dark, empty road.

Suddenly with no warning you see a van blocking 2 lanes. The only thing to do is take it to the shoulder or t-bone the van. The he immediately returned to the traffic lane. As should be done. While not hitting the throttle. Who expects people standing in the interstate?

I used to manage a team that did road closures. So I had to take, I think a 3 day DOT class on various lane closing laws. It been 20 years, but to close a lane on an interstate you have to give a miles worth of warning and again every 1/4 mile. At night you have to have illuminated signage. Even then, working on a road crew is incredibly dangerous. People just don’t pay attention. Not even considering the drunks, testers and cell phone users.

Unless this guy was impaired or driving at an extreme speed I doubt he will be charged. Remember, he hit people illegally trying to close an interstate. While we may admire their courage it is incredibly dangerous and may put good people in a bad spot.

If I were still religious I would pray for all involved.

Trump has caused and will cause more acts of racial violence. But accidents still happen.

The exit he got on wasn't closed yet, and he just couldn't see until it was too late?

I haven't seen this latest video, but protesting on interstates like that doesn't seem like a good move. Sticking to surface streets seems like the safer route to go to carry out these sorts of protests.


**Just watched the video. Looks like the guy fled afterward. Even if he didn't see them until it was too late, that right there makes him an asshole.

And a big rig can be worse. Had he not taken it to the shoulder he would have hit that van. And had he not returned to the traffic lane he may well have hit all those people on the shoulder, who I’m thinking he saw and want to avoid.

Shutting down an interstate puts lots of people in danger, not just the protesters.

It looks like he took off afterward. I saw some twitter chatter that he was drinking and driving. Of course, this being that being the internet, I have no clue if that's true. If he wasn't drinking, then I wonder if he'll claim he was in fear after hitting the people. He hit those women hard. I hope they make it through, and I hope people stick to closing down surface streets from now on.

"The Washington State Patrol said Saturday evening that going forward it won’t allow protesters to enter I-5 and would arrest pedestrians on the freeway."

"Protesters had shut down the interstate for 19 days in a row, Mead said at a press conference"