18 U.S.C. § 1951.
(a)
Whoever in any way or degree obstructs, delays, or affects commerce or the movement of any article or commodity in commerce, by robbery or extortion or attempts or conspires so to do, or commits or threatens physical violence to any person or property in furtherance of a plan or purpose to do anything in violation of this section shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both. (from Cornell Law website)
When are procutors going to start charging people with this FEDERAL crime?
Yesterday, protestors shut down probably half the commerce going in to San Fran on a FEDERAL interstate highway. Intetstate 80 includes the Bay Bridge.