San Francisco Bay Bridge Protests, Pro-Palestine Activists
Protesters shut down the San Francisco Bay Bridge, leading to multiple arrests by local law enforcement. KTVU coverage highlighted activists, many wearing masks and keffiyehs, who blocked traffic with approximately 50 vehicles. In a notable escalation, some protesters reportedly threw their car keys into the water to prevent the vehicles from being easily moved by authorities.
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00:00 And now you change it! And from Northern Silicon Valley where the protesters have shut down the San Francisco Bay Bridge, I'm John C. DuBois. Oh, and all the networks are covering. And Channel I have to say KTVU kudos to them they have the best covers They got a woman on the bridge with where they're arresting all the protesters and she's there with her camera crew and she keeps then they had this cordoned off and She keeps breaking through the cordon to ask people what do they think? What are they protesting
01:05 Oh, they're just protesting our support of Israel. Oh well beautiful! Beautiful... I have to describe these people Yes please. Let me guess Go ahead I can already guess that they're pretty much the same as the Black Lives Matter people LGBTQ queers for Palestine except they have kivviyas on them They have the scarves A few of them do have the scarves, but half of them are masked up. Which makes it even funnier! I'm sorry... So here they are on the bridge, the windy bridge and it's like probably the most ventilated place in the world and there they are masked up And I would say its about at least half of the trans queers for Palestine people
01:54 And there's about a third black and some other ethnics in there, but they're masked up. Now here's the question because I've been tracking this at this moment as of this past week every single protest every single one is organized by a political party every single one and really only one political party but that'll be obvious are there any professional signs in the group? Yeah, all the signs are professional but most of it's just a big banner that they were using and they busted them up pretty quickly. But then fortunately what they've done is they drove a bunch of I don't know maybe 50 cars under the bridge blocked all the lanes and
02:35 in their wise, futuristic vision of the world. They threw their car keys into the water... Oh goodness gracious! No way? Their own way with their own car keys?! Yeah So they're cars are now stuck on the bridge and they can't move Well no, there pulling them off one by one and we've got most of them off now And this started I think at eight in the morning It's still blocked The bridge is still closed And it's actually quite humorous If you're not on the bridge. Yeah, if you don't have to get into work... Well then let me jump into this for a second I've been doing a bit of research looking at the signs there was a lot going on in DC and when you're protesting in Washington D.C., it's always politically motivated but it was just so much bizarre stuff It kind of like makes your
