Pro-Palestinian protesters briefly blocked entrance roads to airports in New York and Los Angeles on Wednesday, forcing some travelers to set off on foot to bypass the jammed roadway.
Twenty-six people were arrested on the roadway, said Steve Burns, a spokesperson for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. The agency also dispatched two buses 'offering rides to travelers involved in the backup to allow them to reach the airport safely,' Burns said.
Around the same time as the New York protest, a major thoroughfare leading to the Los Angeles airport was shut down by another group of pro-Palestinian protesters, who dragged traffic cones, trash bins, scooters and debris into the lanes, according to news helicopter footage. In a statement, the Los Angeles Police Department accused protesters of throwing a police officer to the ground and 'attacking uninvolved passerbys in their vehicles,' without providing further details about either incident.
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