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SouthBayDem

(32,037 posts) Mon Apr 15, 2024, 05:36 PM Apr 15

Gaza protest shuts down Golden Gate Bridge for hours, causing gridlock on both sides of span

Source: KPIX

The Golden Gate Bridge reopened to traffic early Monday afternoon following a pro-Palestinian protest that shut down the span in both directions for hours, according to CHP.

CHP reopened the bridge to southbound traffic shortly after 12:15 p.m., while northbound traffic was held for several minutes as authorities cleared their staging area that occupied those lanes as police and CHP officer arrested protesters. Both directions were reopened by around 12:20 p.m.

CHP said drivers should expect residual delays.

The bridge protest was the second demonstration to impact traffic on Bay Area freeways. It was first reported shortly after 8 a.m., hours after a pro-Palestinian protest closed all lanes on I-880 in Oakland.

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/second-protest-blocks-all-lanes-of-golden-gate-bridge-san-francisco/

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Gaza protest shuts down Golden Gate Bridge for hours, causing gridlock on both sides of span (Original Post) SouthBayDem Apr 15 OP

The pro-Hamas folks aren't making any friends this way TexasDem69 Apr 15 #1

They don't know what other tactic to use. maxsolomon Apr 15 #2

Post removed Post removed Apr 15 #3

It's about putting pressure, not winning friends. Valdosta Apr 15 #4

Imagine the entitlement of thinking you have the right to shut down a public road ripcord Apr 15 #5

Yeah I've watched the videos on YouTube of some of the just stop oil roadblocks in England EX500rider Apr 16 #6

TexasDem69

(1,791 posts)

1. The pro-Hamas folks aren't making any friends this way

Reply to SouthBayDem (Original post)

Mon Apr 15, 2024, 05:40 PM

Apr 15

maxsolomon

(33,345 posts)

2. They don't know what other tactic to use.

Reply to TexasDem69 (Reply #1)

Mon Apr 15, 2024, 06:15 PM

Apr 15

It's the contemporary quandary of the Far Left; most Americans want to ignore protests, but protestors don't want the sleeping masses to be able to ignore their protest. Interrupting mobility is the only method left.

Never mind that it alienates and doesn't persuade.

It's clear what the Pro-Palestine demand is now: IDF unilaterally withdraw from Gaza, leaving Hamas' control unchallenged, allow a massive humanitarian effort to avert famine without Israeli oversight, and hope that someday the hostages that aren't dead are eventually freed.

They're not going to get what they want.