On Thursday morning, Black Lives Matter protestors shut down north and south lanes of I-93, a major commuter way for Greater Boston residents, causing significant traffic delays. A total of 29 people were arrested, 18 arraigned in Middlesex District Court and 11 in Norfolk District Court.

“We clearly understand First Amendment rights and we respect those,” said Mass. State Police Colonel Timothy Alben in a Thurs. press conference. “But I said back a month ago and I’ll repeat it again today: If you go out to an interstate highway, you’re endangering your lives, you’re endangering the lives of those people that are on the highway, and you’re endangering the lives of people that are in neither one of those places.”

Colonel Alben went on to note that the Easton Fire Department responded to a car crash where the victims sustained life-threatening injuries. They were being transferred to a Level-1 trauma center in Boston but due to the traffic incident, were diverted to a hospital in Brockton.

State Police received the call around 7:30 a.m. on Thursday morning in Milton, only to receive a second one roughly 10 minutes later in Medford. Protesters unloaded from trucks that stopped on the highway and proceeded to barricade traffic, demonstrating against the strained race relations between police officers and the public.

“Today, we place our bodies in the street for four and a half hours, the same amount of time Mike Brown lay dying in the streets of Ferguson, Missouri,” relayed the protesters in a statement. According to the Middlesex DA’s office, “State Police encountered a ‘human chain’ of apparent protesters who were linked together with PVC pipes, metal chains, ropes, and carabineers, which prevented law enforcement from separating members of the group.”

The following people were arraigned in Middlesex District Court Thursday, charged in connection with allegedly blocking four lanes of southbound traffic – more specifically resisting arrest, disorderly conduct, trespassing, and conspiracy:

• Ana Castellanos Cancino, 27, of the South End
• Jackson Chan, 22, of the Back Bay
• Sabrina Ghaus, 22, of Dorchester
• Nancy Griffin, 47, of Brighton
• Johannes Huessy, 33, of Roxbury
• Kendra Jae, 25, of Jamaica Plain
• Mallory Kaczmarek, 29, of Roxbury
• Jacquelyn Lemus, 24, of East Boston
• Diana Mai, 25, of Allston
• Monica Majewski, 25, of Dorchester
• Thu Nguyen, 23, of Jamaica Plaintak
• Katharine Seitz, of Dorchester
• Kathryn Selcraig, 22, of Somerville
• David Voutour, 30, of Somerville

Andrew Murray, 26, of Byfield was arrested and charged with a count of carrying a weapon.

The following three were arrested and charged with carrying a dangerous weapon (an expandable baton), disorderly conduct, trespassing, and conspiracy:

• Benjamin Woods, 31, Jamaica Plain,
• Ian Trefethen, 33, Hyde Park,
• Jessica Lowell, 29, Arlington

They’re due back in court Feb. 20.

“Today, our nonviolent direct action is meant to expose the reality that Boston is a city where white commuters and students use the city and leave, while Black and Brown communities are targeted by police, exploited, and displaced,” said Katharine Seitz, one of the protesters.

“We must remember, Ferguson is not a faraway Southern city. Black men, women, and gender-nonconforming people face disproportionately higher risk of profiling, unjust incarceration, and death. Police violence is everywhere in the United States,” added Nguyen Thi Minh Thu, another protester.

According to the Norfolk DA’s office, via Somerville Patch, the following people were arrested in Milton and arraiged on the following charges:

• Nicole Sullivan, 24, of Jacques Street, Somerville, pled not guilty to trespassing, resisting arrest, willfully obstructing an emergency vehicle, conspiracy, disorderly conduct and throwing an object on a public way.
• Nelli Routsalainen, 25, of Lambert Avenue, Roxbury, pled not guilty to trespassing, throwing glass on a public way, willfully obstructing an emergency vehicle, conspiracy, disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and throwing an object on a public way.
• James Billman, 25, of Colbourne Crescent, Brookline, pled not guilty to trespassing, throwing glass on a public way, willfully obstructing an emergency vehicle, conspiracy, disorderly conduct and throwing an object on a public way.
• Brett W. West, 26, of Warren Street, Boston, pled not guilty to trespassing, negligent operation of a motor vehicle, throwing glass on a public way, willfully obstructing an emergency vehicle, conspiracy, disorderly conduct and throwing an object on a public way.
• Jeremy Bingham, 23, of Shawnee Road, Arlington, pled not guilty to trespassing, throwing glass on a public way, willfully obstructing an emergency vehicle, conspiracy, disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and throwing an object on a public way.
• Mark F. Schwaller, 29, of Bynner Street, Jamaica Plain, pled not guilty to trespassing, throwing glass on a public way, willfully obstructing an emergency vehicle, conspiracy, disorderly conduct and throwing an object on a public way.
• Noah McKenna, 28, of Parley Vale, Boston, pled not guilty to trespassing, throwing glass on a public way, willfully obstructing an emergency vehicle, conspiracy, disorderly conduct ,throwing an object on a public way and resisting arrest.
• Angela N. Davis, 43, of Summer Street, Somerville, pled not guilty to trespassing, throwing glass on a public way, willfully obstructing an emergency vehicle, conspiracy, disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and throwing an object on a public way.
• Eli Cohen, 26, of Simpson Avenue, Somerville, pled not guilty to trespassing, throwing glass on a public way, willfully obstructing an emergency vehicle, conspiracy, disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and throwing an object on a public way.
• Emily Osmun, 34, of Medford Street, Somerville, pled not guilty to trespassing, throwing glass on a public way, willfully obstructing an emergency vehicle, conspiracy, disorderly conduct ,throwing an object on a public way and resisting arrest.
• William Connolly, 26, of Jean Street, Hanson, pled not guilty to trespassing, throwing glass on a public way, willfully obstructing an emergency vehicle, conspiracy, disorderly conduct and throwing an object on a public way.

They’re due back in court Apr. 9.