Above Photo:Â by Katie Fretland/Twitter
Black Live Matter protesters marched along Interstate 40 Sunday evening to advocate for the lives taken by police in the last week.
Marchers began the protest in downtown Memphis at 6 p.m. at the FedEx Forum, according to Fox13, but once they began walking on I-40 to the bridge, traffic was shut down.
Hundreds stayed on the bridge, though Tennessee Highway Patrol and the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office helped the Memphis Police Department keep the protest nonviolent.
Check out the full video of protest below:
#BlackLivesMatter Protestors are now on interstate 40 and it looks like they don’t plan to leave. pic.twitter.com/uYUEdBcE9U
— Jeremy Pierre FOX13 (@JeremypierreFOX) July 11, 2016
Protestors shut down bridge in Memphis. WATCH LIVE: https://t.co/E7vce1o4M0 pic.twitter.com/NhxH46LBgm
— FOX19 (@FOX19) July 11, 2016
Protesters shut down I-40 bridge in Memphis. #BlackLivesMatterMemphis. LIVE: https://t.co/AQ4eyXlSq1 pic.twitter.com/GC7kqFKXQb
— FoxNashville (@FOXNashville) July 11, 2016
Protestors are sitting on the bridge in front of a Memphis police car pic.twitter.com/CgngTvPqHC
— Katie Fretland (@katiefretland) July 11, 2016
We got the entire bridge shutdown from Arkansas to Tennessee. This is legendary. #blacklivesmatter #memphis pic.twitter.com/Qb0UztuoJI
— henny kravitz (@shaadtastic__) July 11, 2016