I can't drive: 2,000 Eric Garner protestors shut down Interstate 80

BERKELEY — The protest against the Grand Jury decision to not indict a police officer for killing Eric Garner in New York City has been an interstate movement from the beginning. Now for the first time it has shut down one of the nation's busiest chunks of Interstate freeway.

The I-80 runs from New York to San Francisco, and on its final approach to (or first approach from) the city by the Bay, it runs past Berkeley (a statue commemorating the free speech protests of the 1960s overhangs the freeway), Oakland and Pixar HQ in Emeryville. All of that was impassable for several hours Monday night, when an estimated 2,000 Garner protesters gathered to block all westbound and eastbound lanes in the faces of riot police — and block a train on the nearby Amtrak corridor for good measure. Read more...

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