Protest leaders Frank 'Nitty' Sensabaugh and Tory Lowe were arrested by Indiana state police on their march to Washington, D.C.
MILWAUKEE – Indiana State Police arrested Milwaukee protest leaders Frank"Nitty" Sensabaugh and Tory Lowe on Wednesday evening on theirThey were out of custody by 8 p.m. Eastern time.and a news release from state police, the group was walking in the right-hand shoulder of U.S. 30, a divided four-lane highway near Warsaw in Kosciusko County, Indiana.
Indiana State Police pulled over the group's lead vehicle around 5 p.m. Eastern time and a trooper at that time told Sensabaugh that the cars had to drive on the shoulder because they were impeding traffic. Sensabaugh said it was their constitutional right to march. The trooper said Sensabaugh could either direct the group to walk on the shoulder, with cars trailing in the shoulder, or police would arrest the group for disorderly conduct.As Sensabaugh, Lowe and other march participants were speaking to him, the trooper said they needed to"get out of the roadway." Sensabaugh said he was calling his lawyer, and the trooper directed him to turn around. He began trying to handcuff him with zip ties.
Sensabaugh also mentioned that the Porter County, Indiana, sheriff earlier had escorted the group as they marched along the same highway, U.S. 30.
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