Man shot on Capitol Hill in Seattle after gunman drives car into George Floyd protest

[brooklynite]

Last edited Mon Jun 8, 2020, 07:46 AM - Edit history (1)

Source: Seattle Times

Just as Seattle’s mayor and police chief were wrapping up a Sunday night news conference about ongoing protests against police brutality, a 27-year-old man at a demonstration on Capitol Hill was shot by a gunman who drove into the crowd.

The victim was taken to Harborview Medical Center, where he was listed in stable condition, and the gunman was detained.

The shooting occurred shortly before 8:30 p.m., near the intersection of Eleventh Avenue and Pine Street where demonstrators have gathered repeatedly in the past week to protest police killings of Black people, including George Floyd in Minneapolis last month.

The shooting apparently happened while the gunman was still in the car. Dressed in blue jeans, a black sweatshirt and a black baseball cap, he then got out of his car, gun in hand, and made his way through demonstrators toward a line of police before he was taken into custody.

Read more: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/crime/man-shot-after-gunman-drives-car-into-capitol-hill-protesters/

[LudwigPastorius]

1. One of Trump's "very fine people", I'm sure.

[Chicago1980]

2. Domestic terrorism by a white nationalist?

What's difference between this and the guy who ran those bikers down in NYC along the Hudson a few years ago?

[vercetti2021]

4. Bet he was an incel on top of it

Calling it now

[TheFourthMind]

5. This looked like a failed attempt at something that was supposed to go another way.

There was probably supposed to be less distance between his, fresh out of the impound, car and his fellow police officers.

If his intent was to shoot to kill people he certainly had plenty of opportunity to do so.

Looking forward to seeing where this goes. I suspect actually shooting someone was not part of the plan.

Or, I'm totally wrong.

[ManiacJoe]

6. The man who was shot was reaching through the driver's window.

Can't tell if the man broke the window or not.
Can't tell if the man was punching the driver or not.

[gab13by13]

8. The person who was shot

said he punched the driver in the face to prevent him from doing further damage.

[louzke9]

9. ASSAULT AND SELF-DEFENSE!

The Driver used his vehicle to assault a group of people. The gun shot victim had a right to self-defense by trying to stop the driver!

[rockfordfile]

7. The pos should go to jail for the rest of his life

[TheFourthMind]

10. Still waiting on this to develop. Seems like it's fading fast. n/t

[maxsolomon]

11. Nikolas Fernandez

https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2020/06/08/43870595/nikolas-fernandez-held-on-first-degree-assault-after-allegedly-driving-into-crowd-and-shooting-a-protester-on-capitol-hill

"King County Department of Public Defense attorney Jesse Dubow argued that Fernandez was on his way to work at the Nike store downtown, where he’d been “recently” hired “to provide security,” and got “caught going the wrong way down a one-way street.” He said Fernandez was “operating out of fear” of the protesters, who he thought were trying to jack his car, and his “mental state was protective of himself.”

Dubow said that Fernandez, a member of the Iron Workers Union, lived with his wife in Mount Lake Terrace and was “not familiar with downtown Seattle.”

Dollars to donuts, he's apolitical. He probably had no clue what he drove into. so when someone reached in to his car to stop him, he used his gun.

Stupidity and Firearms. It's the American Way!

[TheFourthMind]

12. Thanks for posting! n/t

[tblue37]

13. A white man with a gun, who had just driven his car into protesters and shot someone, was

taken into custody without being beaten or riddled with bullets.

[Devil Child]

15. Keep dreaming, he is Hispanic and a union member

This isn’t the white supremacist domestic terrorist you want him to be.

[obamanut2012]

16. So are Carmen Diaz, Alexis Bledel, Charlie Sheen, and Ted Williams

That's just off the top of my head.

Lots of Hispanics in The Proud Boys, etc.

I'm not saying this guy is or isn't, I don't know, but being a Hispanic doesn't mean he doesn't mean he doesn't look white, because that's how that works.

And wtf does being a union member have to do with anything???

[tblue37]

17. The cops didn't know his name when they took him into custody. You can be Hispanic and white.

[MosheFeingold]

20. Well

First off, the driver was Hispanic, and quite dark-skinned.

Second, he was going to work, not trying to cause trouble. He was armed because that is his job as a security guard.

Third, protestors blocked off his car, and then began attacking the car. One reached into the car and punched him in the face.

Fourth, the driver shot the man who was attacking him.

Sorry, but this is pretty clear cut. It's all on video.

[hydrolastic]

14. No roadblocks? The gun loaded on the passenger seat and his brother worked at the precinct.

weird weirder and weirdest. Aggravated assault....Right

[GoneRonin]

18. It is odd

The handgun also had a second magazine taped upside down to the first one that was loaded into the firearm. That is not something that is "normal" for a security guard. It is something you see on movies for someone who is going to shoot a LOT.

[maxsolomon]

19. Where did you get that information

about his brother working at that precinct?