MLK Day Buffoonery: "Black Queer Liberation" Protesters Block Bay Bridge

[polychronopolous]

All lanes of the Bay Bridge have reopened about an hour and a half after protesters shut down all lanes just east of Treasure Island Monday afternoon, according to the local CBS affiliate KPIX.

Protesters announced just before 4 p.m. local time that they had shut down Bay Bridge traffic heading into San Francisco with a row of cars chained to each other across the Bridge.

Members of protest groups Black Seed and the Black Queer Liberation Collective took responsibility for the protest in a statement:

“We are here to move towards an increase in the health and wellbeing of all Black people in Oakland & San Francisco."

They demanded divestment of city funds in policing, investment in affordable housing, the resignation of Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, the termination of San Francisco police Chief Greg Suhr and Oakland police Chief Sean Whent and the termination of police officers involved in several recent shootings.

The group’s press release states, in part:

For the second year in a row, the Anti-Police Terror Project (APTP) put out a call for 96 Hours of Direct Action to reclaim Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s radical legacy and take a stand against anti-Black racism and terrorism. In a courageous display of solidarity and the spirit of MLK, Black.Seed, a Black, queer liberation collective, has shut down the Bay Bridge as a show of resistance to a system that continues to oppress Black, Queer, Brown, Indigenous and other marginalized people throughout the Bay Area.

Traffic continued to be delayed even after the protesters were cleared, thanks to the massive backup they created.

A protest earlier in the afternoon had shut down the off-ramp to Interstate Highway 80 in Emeryville near Oakland. That off-ramp remained closed all afternoon.

[Tapeworm]

Way to get everyone to hate your cause.  

There's a time to man up, you know?  Not ram.  Just push.  It'd be worth every penny of the fender damage and you'd be national goddamn heroes.

[drkaje]

It's okay to call people queers, again?

Cool!

[Parker]

It's okay to call people queers, again?

Cool!

And the reasoning for the term coming back into play.
https://community.pflag.org/abouttheq

[Twaddle]

A summation of their reasoning for shutting down the bridge and protesting: "We demand more free shit from the local government!"

 

[drkaje]

A summation of their reasoning for shutting down the bridge and protesting: "We demand more free shit from the local government!"

 

They should have occupied a remote federal building.

[Howard]

It's okay to call people queers, again?

Cool!

Poor MLK just rolled over in his grave.

[drkaje]

Poor MLK just rolled over in his grave.

You're obviously not taking their plight seriously.