Protesters block Westwood intersection, snarl traffic
Traffic in Westwood was badly snarled Wednesday afternoon because of a student protest and street sit-in against the cost of higher education and the banking industry’s purported role in it.
After a march by about 200 protesters from the UCLA campus, about a dozen of them sat down in the busy intersection of Westwood and Wilshire boulevards and refused to move for about an hour.
The result was traffic chaos in the Westwood neighborhood, which otherwise is clogged because of construction on the 405 Freeway that runs along its western border.
Police were preparing to arrest and remove the protesters, according to the Los Angeles Police