Black Lives Matter Protesters Arrested Outside Graceland

Six Black Lives Matter protesters were arrested Tuesday, July 12, as they blocked Elvis Presley Boulevard at the gates of Graceland.

The arrests were out of a group of 100 protesters led by Frank Gotti, who was among the organizers of the Sunday rally turned march to the Hernando DeSoto Bridge.

All six were given misdemeanor citations for blocking a roadway and then released.

Gotti was among organizers of the Sunday action who complained that a Monday meeting with Mayor Jim Strickland and Police Director Michael Rallings wasn’t what they agreed to to call off the Sunday protest that blocked all traffic on the bridge for several hours.

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