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Around 3:45 p.m., Memphis Police Department officers arrived at the scene and told protestors that they were engaged in an "unlawful assembly" and needed to leave the bridge. Shortly before 4 p.m ...
The I-55 bridge between Memphis and West Memphis will be closed Saturday, Feb. 3, 2024 to 6 a.m. on Monday, Feb. 5, 2024, due to construction
The Memphis chapter of the Black Lives Matter movement initially planned to meet at Martyrs Park; upon realizing that the park was closed, protesters began moving towards the Harahan Bridge along Interstate 55. Protesters began dissipating around 9 p.m. [6] [7] [8] Nichols' family gathered at Tobey Skatepark, a local skatepark in Memphis, to ...
TDOT Monday announced plans to build a new I-55 bridge between Memphis and Arkansas. ... the main thoroughfare with the Hernando De Soto bridge still closed for construction on Wednesday, June 2 ...
Protest in Columbus, Ohio. Following the release of the video, protesters in Memphis blocked traffic on Interstate 55. [133] By January 28, protests had also occurred in New York City, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Portland, Atlanta, San Francisco, Boston, Baltimore, and Newark. [134] [135]
Planning for the new bridge began in 1939 with the creation of a joint Memphis-Arkansas bridge commission headed by longtime Memphis political boss E. H. Crump. [3] Walter Chandler , another notable Tennessee politician who was a member of the Crump machine at that time, also served on the bridge commission.
In Memphis, around 100 protesters blocked the Interstate 55 bridge in both directions, bringing semitrucks and other vehicles to a halt. Demonstrators filled New York City’s Times Square ...
Hundreds of protesters peacefully gathered in Johnson City on May 31. Several protesters were arrested after they refused to stop blocking a road. [35] At a protest on July 13, a confrontation broke out between Black Lives Matter protesters and neo-nazi counter protestors wearing shirts that read “National Socialist Club 131”.