The demonstrations took on a new vigor this year in the aftermath of the deaths Michael Brown and Eric Garnertwo black men who were killed by white police officers.
More than 60 protesters partially closed the San Mateo Bridge in the San Francisco Bay area, the California Highway Patrol reported.
“It was peaceful but they were blocking the bridge and were arrested,” said Officer Damian Cistaro.
The disruption snarled traffic for miles.
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“It struck me that King’s vision was both the empowerment of African-Americans, the insistence on civil rights, but also the reconciliation of people who seemed so hard to reconcile,” artist Barry Blitt said.
“In New York and elsewhere, the tension between the police and the policed is at the center of things,” he said. “It is hard to believe things would have got as bad as they are if he was still around today.”
