Demonstrators block highway traffic in Minneapolis

Published 2:28 pm Thursday, December 4, 2014

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Demonstrators are stopping traffic on a major highway near downtown Minneapolis.

Some protesters are fast-food workers asking for higher wages and union rights. Others are protesting a grand jury’s decision not to charge a white police officer in the chokehold death of a black man in New York.

KSTP-TV reports the demonstrators are marching northbound on Interstate 35W. At one point, the demonstrators lay down and climbed on barriers.

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Traffic is unable to move while demonstrators block the busy interstate Thursday.