ST. LOUIS (KMOV) – Fourteen people were arrested after hundreds of protesters with Occupy St. Louis gathered at Kiener Plaza downtown on Thursday and marched to the MLK Bridge as part of a national day of protests at decaying bridges.
They will speak against policies that have enriched the 1% and impoverished the 99%.
In St. Louis, the action at the MLK Bridge is intended to give an example of the many roads, schools and other infrastructure sites in need of investment and repair. Unemployed workers and local residents want to call attention to the urgent need to create jobs by putting people to work repairing bridges and other infrastructure.
Police blocked roads for the protesters, but did not allow them onto the bridge. Several people were arrested. The protests were peaceful.
