Demonstrators block key access to Vancouver port over jail for pipeline protester

VANCOUVER — Indigenous youth calling themselves Braided Warriors have blocked a major Vancouver intersection to protest a 90-day jail sentence handed to an anti-pipeline protester.

A police spokesman says the group marched from the courthouse to the east Vancouver intersection late Tuesday following the sentencing.

About 20 people set up a blockade at Hastings Street and Clark Drive, a key entrance to the Port of Vancouver.

They stayed there through the night and the intersection remained blocked on Wednesday.