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(13,297 posts)Several protestors halted traffic on the southbound Hollywood (101) Freeway near downtown Los Angeles. About a dozen people stopped vehicles around 9 a.m. near Alvarado Street, according to the California Highway Patrol. The LAPD responded to assist the CHP and all lanes were reopened a short time later. Eight people were arrested.
This turned into an unlawful protest. We asked the people to please get up off the freeway ramp and leave. They wouldnt. And they also proceeded to graffiti the freeway they wrote disparaging comments along the freeway, LAPD Capt. Brian Pratt said. We basically went through a three-step process we asked them to leave, we then had to tell them to leave and then we had to make them leave because they wouldnt leave the freeway and were endangering their own and public safety.