MINNEAPOLIS — Demonstrators are blocking rush hour traffic on an interstate in downtown Minneapolis.

More than a dozen protesters are blocking five lanes on southbound Interstate 35W near University Avenue Wednesday.

The demonstrators walked onto a bridge across the Mississippi River and chanted “I believe that we will win.”

Authorities are telling the demonstrators, protesting recent deaths by police, to leave the interstate. Philando Castile was fatally shot by a suburban St. Paul officer during a traffic stop last week.