Protest delays train headed to Patriots-Ravens playoff game
DEDHAM, Mass. (AP) Activists protesting police killings on Saturday briefly walked onto train tracks to block a commuter train packed with fans headed to the New England Patriots-Baltimore Ravens playoff game.
Organizers staged the four-and-a-half-minute demonstration at the Dedham station south of Boston to protest the shooting of an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri, last year. They said in a statement the amount of time symbolized the four-and-a-half hours that Michael Brown lay in the street after he was shot.
Transit Police Lt. Michael Shea told The Boston Globe (http://bit.ly/1DKmIyB) that about 10 protesters were at the station. No one was arrested.
He could not confirm they delayed the train, which was at a regular stop and on its way to Gillette Stadium in Foxborough.
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Information from: The Boston Globe, http://www.bostonglobe.com
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