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Palestine Protest
“WE TOOK OVER THE BRIDGE Y’ALL!!!!!” Memphis Voices for Palestine (MVP) posted to Instagram last Saturday. “FREE PALESTINE!!!!”
The event was called Shut It Down for Palestine: Memphis Protest. A flyer for the MVP event said, “Biden, no more U.S. aid to Israel! The people demand a ceasefire! Free, free Palestine!”
The protest began at Memphis City Hall last Saturday afternoon. Protesters then made their way to the Hernando DeSoto Bridge. Once they amassed on the bridge, they stopped traffic for more than an hour. Though the group promoted the event for a week online, Memphis Police Department did not respond until protesters took the bridge.
“The amount of people in my comments who act as if they’d be willing to commit vehicular homicide is alarming,” Fox13 meteorologist Chelsea Chandler tweeted Sunday. “Regardless of the circumstances, it’s still murder.”
On Monday, state Sen. Brent Taylor tweeted that he requested a review of the event by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigations “to determine which individuals are responsible for this action and refer the findings to the appropriate office to be fully prosecuted.”