WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – Participants face misdemeanor public nuisance charges for their protest over the police killing of a 32-year-old black man, Philando Castile, during a routine traffic stop earlier this month, local television station KMSP reported.
"The State Patrol supports the right to exercise one’s First Amendment rights, but the freeway is not the place to do so," Minnesota State Patrol Chief Colonel Matt Langer said, as quoted in the newscast.
The group reportedly described itself as "non-Black people committed to highlighting the voices of Black organizers."
Prior to the demonstration, the group issued a press release demanding that the city of Minneapolis police department be disarmed, defunded and disbanded, local reports said.
