Jump to content


Photo

Protesters block train line near Super Bowl


  • Please log in to reply
No replies to this topic

#1 CNJRoss

CNJRoss

    Administrator

  • Admin
  • PipPip
  • 43390 posts
  • Gender:Male
  • Location:Fairfax, VA

Posted 05 February 2018 - 10:23 PM

AP via WFLD-TV Chicago, IL 2/4/18:
 

Police arrest Black Lives Matter protesters blocking train line near Super Bowl

 

 

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Police on Sunday arrested a group of activists who locked themselves along a light-rail line carrying Super Bowl ticketholders to U.S. Bank Stadium, shutting down trains for more than two hours.

 

Live footage from the scene showed officers unlocking or cutting through locks the protesters had used to chain themselves to each other and to fencing at the West Bank Station on Metro Transit's Green Line. The handcuffed protesters were loaded onto a waiting bus.

 

Metro Transit used buses to ferry passengers around the blockage,  .  .  .

 

Continue here.






1 user(s) are reading this topic

0 members, 1 guests, 0 anonymous users