Black Lives Matter Protestors Shut Down the Bay Bridge for MLK Day

Black Lives Matter demonstrators halted traffic Monday afternoon on the five-lane westbound span of San Francisco’s Bay Bridge, the Guardian reports, chaining themselves to their cars.

“Today is the day when we reclaim MLK’s radical legacy,” said one protestor, April Thomas. “I’m out here for Tamir Rice, Rekia Boyd, for my mother, myself, for Harriet Tubman.”

Five cars with chains and protesters block the Bay Bridge. Traffic is stopped. #ReclaimMLK pic.twitter.com/QmzgGR2gSu

— Julia Carrie Wong (@juliacarriew) January 18, 2016

In December, San Francisco police killed Mario Woods, in a brutal shooting that was captured on video.

The scene on the Bay Bridge where protesters are blocking traffic #ReclaimMLK #BlackLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/zI1X4Im4RM

— Julia Carrie Wong (@juliacarriew) January 19, 2016

Bay Bridge right now pic.twitter.com/PGZHoL9Kc3

— Tommy Craggs (@tcraggs22) January 19, 2016

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