Jury awards $6M to family members of Black Lives Matter protester killed by a car on Seattle freeway

In Seattle, a jury ruled that the driver who struck and killed Black Lives Matter protester Summer Taylor on a closed interstate must pay the protester’s family $6 million. The jury also found that the state of Washington was not negligent in the death. Taylor, 24, was hit by a car driving the wrong way on Interstate 5 during protests in July 2020.

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