Washington State Patrol investigates the scene where two people in a group of protesters were stuck by a car on Interstate 5 while the highway was closed to traffic due to the protest in Seattle, Washington, U.S., July 4, 2020. REUTERS/Jason Redmond
(Reuters) - Two female protesters in Seattle were hit on Saturday by a speeding car that drove into a crowd demonstrating on an interstate highway, causing injuries that led to the death of one, while leaving the other in serious condition.
Seattle has been the scene of numerous protests, some on interstate highways, since the May 25 killing of George Floyd, a Black man, on a Minneapolis street while he was in police custody, and which was captured on video.
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