Authorities used heavy equipment to free protesters who chained themselves to 55-gallon drums filled with cement.
Protester Russell Bates, 76, of Berkeley, is detained by California Highway Patrol after blocking southbound Interstate 880 in Oakland, Calif., on Monday, April 15, 2024. Protesters arrived around 7 a.m. to block the freeway, forcing motorists to wait nearly four hours till California High Patrol reopened the freeway shortly after 12:30 p.m. Crime and Public Safety |Around 6:15 a.m.
Back on I-880 and starting around 8:15 a.m., about 300 protesters blocked the southbound direction at 7th Street. Five people were arrested and all lanes were opened by 1 p.m., the CHP said.“This was a complex operation, and the California Highway Patrol made every effort to get the lanes open as quickly as possible,” the CHP said in the news release.
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