Protesters have shut down the westbound lanes of the Bay Bridge on Thursday morning while calling for a ceasefire in the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.
The protesters went onto the lanes of the bridge sometime before 7:45 a.m. near the Treasure Island on-ramp, according to the California Highway Patrol.
A press release from organizers of the protest said they are calling for an immediate ceasefire in the Middle East conflict and for an end to U.S. military aid to Israel.
Yeah, cause blocking a freeway in CA will stop the fighting in another country.
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It exemplifies how delusional these liberals really are.
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If Biden and the boys at APEC can cause a week of gridlock in SF, why not protesters for peace?
Does the government have carte blanche to inconvenience the people – without compensation for the sake of their political agendas? I had to take the whole week off from working in South Beach for their shenanigans.
But its the protestors that don’t want are tax dollars going for bombs and missiles that should be arrested?
I’m no fan of the APEC conference. It was a waste of money and it inconvenienced SF residents, and businesses. Also why are all those Green Energy supporters flying in to SF instead of Zooming the whole thing. However, I don’t think the protests on the Bay Bridge and APEC are the same. We’ve known about APEC for at least a month. We all knew SF would be a traffic nightmare. Those attending APEC had a legitimate reason to be there and additional security was necessary. I don’t know your route to work but you did have the information in advance so you could plan an alternate route or adjust your hours. Travelers on their way to SFO to catch a flight this morning were just stuck on the bridge for 3+ hours with no way out. Had they known a group of useless idiots were going to pull another one of their stupid stunts which accomplish nothing, those travelers could’ve avoided the Bay Bridge. Yes, the other useless idiots, Biden, Blinken, Yellen, Kerry, etc created gridlock and accomplished nothing also. But, at least, we knew in advance and could avoid them.
Yes, YoYoHop…..those protesters SHOULD BE ARRESTED.
They should go to Gaza and protest there. Sit on the roads that Hamas used to transport hostages and weapons. See how that goes.
Toss them off the bridge and the organizers . So we need to send criminals to the same colleges. You just can’t make this stuff up. It may be too late to save this country.
Snow plows aren’t busy
Impound every car used to block the road and if any are failing to meet other vehicle code requireemnts, cite them for that as well (Lexus looks to have tags from 2022).
Arrest each and every one of those criminals.
You want to protest, get a permit or accept the consequences.
If it is so important to you to cause a huge disruption, how about going over there and talking to the terrorists groups mirdering and killing the innocent and tell them to stop. Stop hiding behind the flag you hate so much and go over there and protest over there!
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The extremist liberals blocking traffic should be classified as a hate group.
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But they won’t be. They will just be tolerated. Just like all the BLM burning down of buildings and looting of cities in 2020. Nothing happened to any of them. But if you were anywhere near the Capitol and have to be a Republican they put you in jail and have harass the hell out of your life. We live in a one-sided system! Pure Democrat liberal control. That’s the threat to democracy!
Solution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noJjFNfdcqQ
Love it!! By the way, sure hope that folks who have lost income, missed a flight, etc. will sue them in civil court.
The CHP should start tossing them over the side. Just sayin’.
I’d settle for less than a ceasefire . No more tax dollars to Israel. Let them fight their own wars.
Ukraine too, right?
We should always support our allies in the fight against the murdering Hamas terrorists, who are committing genocide against Israel.
How about getting on Biden’s case for supplying money to the Palestinians, which is then used to buy weapons to attack Israel.
I could never understand how the German people could support the slaughter the Nazis inflicted on the Jewish people in WW2. Then I see the democrat politicians, our universities and people like yoyo that support Hamas terrorists and the evil they represent. Thank God they are a tiny percent of our society. We are seeing who the true racists are in this country.
@Pepe: The German people didn’t support the slaughter of Jews. Hitler wasn’t even elected. Read some history dude.
The Nazis were elected to power by the people in 1933 dude. But you believe what you want .
Pepe – You changed my comment, in order to make yourself right. I said, Hitler was not elected. Not everyone who disagrees with you is a Nazi. Grow up.
I can’t for the life of me see where Pepe claimed Hitler was elected. You’re the one making the straw man.
must have been a convoy of short busses to drop them off.
Oh! Yeah! ‘That’ll help!
Water cannons loaded with pepper spray would do the trick!!!
Blocking a bridge. Blocking the Right of Way? That is illegal. Our government encourages them. Democrat politicians are encouraging this illegal behavior.
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Well, liberalism is a mental illness.
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I still can’t believe Biden told them to storm the Capitol on Jan. 6
Newsflash. Alert the press.
Are you sure they are all liberals? There’s quite a few on the right that don’t like what is going on in Israel too. And I seem to recall the protest was only supposed to block one lane on the bridge. Yes, I’m sure anyone that had to go that way were frustrated and something that needs to be taken in account when you organize such a thing because it can work against you.
It does bring attention though to the nonsense that is going over in that country. Most Americans are oblivious to these issues and focus on football instead. 😎
Fortunately I’m capable of paying adequate attention to both. And a lot more for that matter.
@Captain Bebops
Defending yourself is hardly nonsense. And there is ZERO excuse for blocking the bridge lanes.
Ok, your protest shows your not that important. Bye.
@WC—Creeker
What it shows is that those so-called protesters don’t care about ANYTHING or ANYONE but themselves.
Since they won’t criminally prosecute these morons, it’s time to do civil lawsuits to punish the protesters.
A product of our educational system and funded by George Soros.
Just put them all in the chair, they want to lay in the middle of the road anyway.
Impound their cars. Deport them to Gaza.
I think this is so crazy. Do the protesters realize they may be changing someone’s life that has nothing to do with what is going on. they may be missing a flight or going to a funeral or wedding, even visiting someone in the hospital that may be the last time they will see the person or heading to surgery. We have the right to protest and i understand however to stop innocent people that may be heading to something very important just makes no sense.
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Liberals are a selfish bunch.
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Bonafide hypocrites.
@concord Always
If they do realize what you’re saying, they don’t care one bit about any of that……they only care about themselves.
I totally agree with your comment. It is not just an inconvenience it can also be a life or death issue. Someone needs to get to an emergency room right away, or any other situation as Concord Always mentioned.
Ship them off to Gaza Strip. Let them protest directly to the IDF there.. we will see how far that gets them.
Minimum 1 yr in jail, vehicle impounded and sold, 2000 hrs community service cleaning rash from the freeway
I think a good cortisone cream will get rid of the rash on the freeway. Protesters?! Not so much.
Do these people have jobs? Are they a rent a mob. I fail to see the sympathy for the Palestinians who attacked and killed 1400 civilians and then started shooting their poorly designed rockets at Israel. At best the Palestinians are stupid for starting a war they had a zero chance of winning. People at times can be such a disappointment.
@ Ricardoh, If the Palestinians have zero change of winning, why are our politicians telling us that we must send support to Israel? How many years have they been fighting? And it is only one side’s fault?
I am not sure how much help they need . That’s not my point. They have used a lot of miseles defense that they may need help with. I’m not big on spreading our money around
I wonder who is paying them?
You must be watching to much CNN. What do you call what Hamas did on October 7th, if that wasn’t genocide I don’t know what is.
The IDF told the Palestinians to move south to save lives, Did Hamas do that on October 7th, NO.
Does the IDF hide weapons under hospital or in kids school.NO.
You need to educate yourself on what’s really going on on the Mid-east.
Civil Disobedience has been the cornerstone for change in America’s history. Almost 60% of Americans want a cease fire in GAZA now. This is not being liberal or conservative, this is called being humane. Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian People as we did to our American Indians. Israel has the right to defend themselves, but it is against International Law to target innocent citizens; and that’s what they are doing. Israel will never defeat HAMAS militarily, just like they were never able to eliminate Hezbollah during their invasion of Lebanon in 1982. As long as Israel’s Military continues to target and kill innocent Palestinian citizens; the survivors of such families make perfect recruits for HAMAS. Also, the real headquarters of Hamas is in Dubai…I don’t think that’s on the list of U.S. and Israeli targets!
The only ones targeting civilians are the hamasholes! They’re also the ones hiding behind civilians, which is also a violation of international law.
It is also against International Law to use hospitals as a cover for military operations as the Hamas p***ies do. The IDF provides secure corridors for Palestinian civilians to egress and Hamas stops them at gunpoint. Stop pretending there is a moral equivalence. “From the river to the sea” is a rally cry for the elimination of Israel.
The US did not commit genocide against American Indians. Disease killed most of them inadvertently before colonization really began. Then Europeans expanded into their territory and displaced them, often involving armed warfare. I’m not making moral judgements on that one way or another, just pointing out it was not genocide, which is why we still have multiple tribes/reservations today. Accurate use of terms is important, don’t devalue the term the way “racist” has been.
The only place I can think of where the weaker human population wasn’t conquered and subsumed into the dominant population or outright exterminated is North Sentinel Island in the Andamans. And you can bet your rear that would change in a hurry if they found oil or gold there.
You really need to research your view, especially in regards to our first peoples of California, like my own family still living today: the POMO, having lived in California for over 10,000 years. They were first abused by Russians to build Fort Ross, then by the Spanish to build the last of the missions in Sonoma! Then the Gold Rush brought other Europeans that had the one wish to only eliminate every Indigenous Californian!
If the Israelites didn’t care about lives they could have turned Gaza into a parking lot the same day the Palestinians butchered, raped and burned babies, women, college students. It is Hamas that is refusing to let their citizens go while they use hospitals and schools as their base.
The Israelis are already turning GAZA into a parking lot. Their goal…reconstruct, rebuild, and make GAZA part of Israel!
@Guido
Bullsh*t
And your evidence in support of this is….?
The news said it was east of the tunnel which might mean Alameda County DA Price will be able to reward the their caring attitude.
Where do a bunch of immature people get the idea that having a public tantrum and Inconveniencing thousands of people is helpful.
Remember, we had protests during the George W era and both right and left participated. This issue is not a right/left one.
Dude you got that right!
Fiscal responsibility is supposedly a conservative value. And yet our money is being wasted in Israel, just as it was in Ukraine.
The same “bag of tricks” of propaganda is being used to sell the public on support for Israel “Hamas is killing civilians…women and children…if we don’t give money to them, it will be us next, etc. etc”
Didn’t you people learn anything from the Ukraine debacle?
These wanna-be Nazis are clamoring for a ceasefire so Hamas has time to regroup, rearm, and then reattack Israel. They want to repeat the process until Israel has been destroyed and the final solution for all the Jews is complete.
That’s right, Cowellian…….and unfortunately, Guido, Yoyohop, and many others don’t seem to understand that.
They could go and block traffic at GG Park or Ocean Beach. The cars the protesters parked on the SF Bay Bridge and then threw the keys in the water, should lose possession of their cars, or impound them until they are claimed/ unclaimed and then sold.
You do not believe in the constitution of murder upon innocent children?
@Guido, that sounds like the baby-raping, baby-killing hamasholes.
@ Cowellian A hysterical woman’s voice shrieks, “They’re killing babies….taking them straight out of their incubators and killing them. You’ve got to do something…” Where have we heard that before??
Protesters motto: No job – no life – no brain – no problem. Useless idiots allowed to disrupt normal people’s lives – disgusting. Round them up and put them on a one-way flight to Gaza. See how long they last protesting there.
American was built upon Civil Disobedience. Remember the Boston Tea Party?
That’s not civil disobedience, that’s actively supporting terrorism.
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Guido is clearly a mentally deranged, bleeding heart, ill-informed extremist liberal with emotional issues ranging from social depravity, ethno-centricism, and racial bias. Guido is clueless about international affairs, geopolitical history, and foreign policy.
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LOL!
Guido – there’s a difference between “civil disobedience “ and committing crimes.
And all you ca. do is “LOL.”
Spray purple dye on them and then pick them up later at your leisure.
We have the means to do this and punish the individuals.
Give them six months in prison then this will never happen again from those individuals.
Even if there are thousands it is a must-do.
They must be fined individually the cost of social loss and law enforcement time, including injuries.
Anyone who supports a barbaric enemy that commits rape, murder & atrocities that include beheading and /or tossing babies into ovens to burn while making their parents watch?….. I agree with those who say “throw them off the bridge…….
“Live Babies”
I’m sure they all took off of work to protest today. Oh forgot this is California work is optional hail newscum.
Funny, all this lawbreaking with Alcatraz in clear view.
Perhaps there is an obvious solution here.
There is no moral high ground here. Whatever the terrible toll Israel has paid in dead children they have returned ten fold. Twenty fold now. So if dead kids really bother you, there literally isn’t a side to take but for it to just ‘effing stop.
If Mexico and Canada kept yelling death to the US what would you do if they killed twenty thousand civilians in a cowardly attack
Give back the hostages and there will be a ceasefire. Isn’t that simple?
The fact is that they were still under the last ceasefire when the hamasholes attacked again. Every ceasefire has been intended to keep Israel from defending themselves. You may blame all of those civilian deaths on the terrorists who intentionally attack civilians in Israel and hide behind civilians in Gaza, all in violation of international law.
What is the benefit of a protest 3000 miles from the issue? If you want to protest a war, go over to the war and put your signs out and stop it. How is it going to help by shutting down the Bay Bridge? All you are doing is pissing people off that have nothing to do with Gaza and Israel. The US has no control over that issue and neither do commuters.
According to the SF Chronicle and ABC 7 News, a UCSF courier carrying organs for transplant were caught in the Bay Bridge delay caused by idiot protesters. The courier was forced to re-route, and what would normally be a 1/2 hour trip became a 4 hour trip. So all of these clowns who claim to care so much about innocent lives in the Middle East are endangering lives right here in the Bay Area. Ignorant losers with no common sense. You can’t fix stupid.