Two people have been hospitalized, one with life-threatening injuries, after a vehicle barreled past a police barrier and into protesters on a freeway overnight in Seattle.
Washington State Patrol said Saturday that the driver of the white Jaguar sedan, a 27-year-old man, is in custody.
"My hope is, as a result of this tragedy, protesters will reconsider their desire to be on the interstate," he said, "because I cannot guarantee their safety, plain and simple.".
Mead said Saturday that protesters have forced a closure on Interstate 5 every day for nearly three weeks.
"The message they're trying to send is, 'You need to get out of the street and stop these protests,' " Ari Weil, the terrorism researcher at the University of Chicago who compiled those statistics, told NPR last month
"They're trying to intimidate the most recent wave of BLM protesters to stop their movement."
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