Motorists exit their vehicles as protesters block traffic on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge on Monday, Jan. 18, 2016, in San Francisco.
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The protest is not the product of Black Lives Matter Minneapolis, a spokesperson for the group told the Star Tribune.
Traffic is resuming across a bridge linking Minneapolis and St. Paul after a Martin Luther King Day protest organized to highlight the deaths of two black men shot by police.
“It was reclaiming King’s radical legacy, so people aren’t getting the sanitized “I Have a Dream” legacy”, protest spokeswoman Mia Birdsong of Oakland said.
One group will meet at Lake Street and 4th Avenue S.in Minneapolis while another group gathers at Marshall and Otis avenues in St. Paul – they’ll then march and meet in the middle on the Mississippi River Bridge at Lake Street and Marshall Avenue.
Black Seed and the Black Queer Liberation Council claimed responsibility for Monday’s protests.
About 30 minutes later, California Highway Patrol officers were pulling about a dozen protesters from cars and pulling their cars to the side of the road. Police have begun to make arrests on the bridge, and right now three lanes are open again. Images from the scene appear to show protesters tethered to each other and holding signs with the words “black health matters”.
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Protestors also assembled outside the homes of San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee and Police Chief Greg Suhr on Sunday morning.
