{"id":439518,"date":"2026-08-21T16:16:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T16:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/439518\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T16:16:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T16:16:19","slug":"sentencing-day-for-golden-gate-bridge-protesters-nbc-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/439518\/","title":{"rendered":"Sentencing day for Golden Gate Bridge protesters \u2013 NBC Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seven protesters who were convicted of blocking the Golden Gate Bridge at the start of the Israel-Hamas war will be sentenced by a San Francisco judge Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Six protesters are facing a maximum sentence of five years, while the seventh faces up to five and a half years. Sentencing is scheduled to take place at 1:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2024, protestors shut down the Golden Gate Bridge for hours during the morning commute. The protestors, dubbed the &#8220;Golden Gate 26,&#8221; were eventually arrested and hit with multiple charges, including false imprisonment.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of the protestors avoided trial, but seven of them went through a weekslong trial that ended with a guilty verdict for false imprisonment. <\/p>\n<p>The protestors narrowly avoided a more severe charge of felony conspiracy, which could have carried a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seven protesters who were convicted of blocking the Golden Gate Bridge at the start of the Israel-Hamas war&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439519,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-439518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}