Black Lives Matter protesters chain themselves, shut down Bay Bridge

[villager]

Source: SF Gate

A group of Black Lives Matters demonstrators has blocked westbound lanes of the Bay Bridge, bringing traffic to a standstill by roping their vehicles across the five lanes of the busy span.

It appeared the protesters drove onto the bridge, stopped their cars near the new eastern span tower, stepped out and strung rope through each of their cars and across the lanes, forcing vehicles behind them to stop.

The action occurred just after police shut down the eastbound I-80 Powell Street offramp in Emeryville during Monday’s Martin Luther King Jr. demonstrations that began in Oakland and moved into Emeryville.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Hundreds-join-MLK-demonstration-march-in-Oakland-6767354.php?

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[global1]

1. It Will Be Interesting To See How These Protesters Are Treated Versus The Malheur Protesters....nt

[GummyBearz]

2. They should be praised

For stopping commuters from getting home during rush hour. An excellent way to win californian's support.

[cui bono]

12. They should be praised for standing up for their rights and against injustice.

What protests would work without a little disruption? I would care less if it took me longer to get home from work when the activists are literally protesting to save their lives.

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[GummyBearz]

15. The only people they disrupted are the most liberal people in this country

Really? Blocking a bridge in San Francisco? That is disrupting the people who already agree with BLM, and fucking up their day big time. What a dumb move

[FLPanhandle]

17. Are you also praising the Oregon protesters?

Or are you a hypocrite?

[villager]

3. Well, according to updates, they've already started to arrest the bridge protesters...

So there's your answer.

[Initech]

4. While no arrests have been made in Malheur. Great!

[villager]

5. Hey, Rightwing Lives Matter!

[840high]

6. Are they blocking people's cars?

[Initech]

7. No but they're desecrating sacred Native American burial grounds!

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ore-militia-remove-cameras-pave-roads-wildlife-refuge-article-1.2499550

[Akicita]

24. Was Chris Christie there showing them how to properly block a bridge?

[vkkv]

8. Yah that's not a way to build support.

But it is a fine way to push people to think negatively of one's group - that WILL work.

[Brickbat]

9. Yeah, why can't they just listen to police officers and quit loitering?

[GummyBearz]

10. Right

As if lunch counter sit in's caused thousands of commuters to be stranded on a bridge for hours on end at the end of their work day

[Brickbat]

11. This wasn't an arrest from a lunch counter sit-in.

[vkkv]

18. Brickbat - that's a fantastic, reactionary, short-term, right-wing, stupid-thinking Republican

kind of response.

I mean, really, Coulter and Tucker couldn't have come up with anything better.

Yes, I get that you were insulting me directly. Kindly stop being insulting and move on.. oh wait, the bridge traffic is jammed! Aw cr*p... we're going nowhere here.

[underthematrix]

13. This was not Black Lives Matters. This was Black Health Matters

and another group, I think the Transgenedered Collective. They provided snacks and had medics available if anyone needed help. This is what is being reported on the local news channel. The protest in 30 minutes.

I think they did a great job taking precautions but it's a type of protest that's jeopardizes safety so I'm not in favor of it even though their cause is valid. This particular method of protest is not okay.

[notadmblnd]

14. Bay Bridge October 17 1989

Can you imagine being trapped on The Bay bridge during an earthquake? Nah, couldn't happen.

[XemaSab]

25. This is a totally new structure

that's even less safe than the old structure.

[FLPanhandle]

16. They should be arrested

Same as the Oregon bunch.

[vkkv]

19. You got that right ______________________ n/t

[vkkv]

20. MLK would NOT approve !!!

[kimbutgar]

21. I went across the Bay bridge today

Traffic was the lightest ever. If you are going to shut down I 80 today was a slow traffic day.

[MeNMyVolt]

22. This is cool! The new Sanders Supporters, and the old...

.. will fight this one out. Let's sit back and see where they go.

[vkkv]

30. Troll much?

[keithbvadu2]

23. Are they working for Chris Christie?

[romanic]

26. Well

they haven't been in the news lately so I guess they had to do something on MLK day of all days. :-/

[2pooped2pop]

27. are they still alive?

should have brought guns and taken over a wildlife refuge and asked for snacks. That's the way to stay out of jail. Plus it's warm inside.

seriously good luck to these people

[NaturalHigh]

28. Still winning hearts and minds, I see.

[tabasco]

29. How many people needed to get to a job interview, a hospital, important appointments?

These people are idiots.

[vkkv]

31. Agreed!

[cpwm17]

32. Anti-war protesters should show up at these protesters homes

and block their path to work everyday, until their time wasted equals the hundreds of thousand hours that the citizens of the San Francisco area had to waste due to their stunt – you know, to protest the terrible wars.

[TipTok]

33. Do ambulances or other emergency vehicles use this bridge?