Pro-Palestinian protesters who halted traffic across the Golden Gate Bridge in 2024 say they believed their actions were necessary to save lives amid Israel’s military strikes on Gaza.
Activists facing more than a decade in prison told a San Francisco court Friday that they felt they had exhausted other options to oppose the U.S.’s involvement in the war.
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“I believed that it was an emergency, we needed to act very quickly,” said Conrad DeJesus, one of the seven defendants charged in connection with an April 15, 2024, protest that shut down travel across the Golden Gate Bridge.
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