More than a dozen pro-Palestinian protesters interrupted the St. Louis Pride Parade on Sunday for about an hour.
The protesters sat in the street and would not allow the parade to continue while they chanted and sang. They chained themselves to PVC pipe that stretched across Market Street in downtown St. Louis along the parade route.
St. Louis Metropolitan Police officers gave the crowd three orders to disperse before firefighters cut the pipe connecting the protesters and police took them into custody. Police say they took 19 people into custody and charged them with trespassing. Eleven people were also charged with resisting.
The protesters interrupted the Pride event because Boeing is a major sponsor. The defense contractor supplies Israel with many of its weapons.
