White people be cray. Placed their arms in barrels and filled them with concrete

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Just as tens of thousands of commuters were making their trek to work Thursday morning, protesters blocked traffic on Interstate 93 north and south of Boston, attaching themselves to heavy barrels, State Police said.

The protesters shut down I-93 North at East Milton Square, along with I-93 South at Mystic Avenue in Medford, State Police said in a tweet at 7:40 a.m.


By 8:08 a.m., State Police tweeted that protesters had been removed from I-93 South. Trooper Nicole Morrell, a State Police spokeswoman, said no injuries were reported. Seventeen people were arrested at the Medford location and were being taken for booking at the State Police barracks in Medford.

Another six people have been arrested so far at the Milton location, State Police said. But protesters remained on the highway.

As of about 8:30 a.m., two lanes and the HOV lane remained open, while a group of protesters was still lying in the far left and far right lanes of the northbound side of the highway.


Around 8:45 a.m., State Police stopped all traffic as they used power saws to try to cut protesters away from the barrels they had attached themselves to. A State Police tweet showed two women, each with an arm inside a white steel drum.

State Police, and Boston and Milton firefighters draped one protester with a protective blanket as they tried to disengage him, using power saws, hammer, and a chisel.

A Boston firefighter’s power saw generated sparks that flew onto the protester. He screamed in pain because he was being burned. The firefighter stopped, and more blankets and protective tarps were brought to protect the protesters.

State Police said periodically all lanes would be stopped while efforts continued.

By about 9:45 a.m., all the people who had been chained to barrels were freed.

According to one of the protesters, Shannon Leary, the group arrived around 7:20 a.m. Six of them attached themselves to four drums filled with concrete, weighing 1,200 pounds, and managed to shut down the highway. Leary said the protesters stuck their arms in the barrels and had concrete poured on them.

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