Live updates: Tyre Nichols arrest video released by Memphis officials

A group of protesters shut down the Interstate 55 bridge near downtown Memphis, Tennessee, on Friday night, according to a CNN team on scene. 

The group of about 200 protesters marched from Martyrs Park, on the southern end of downtown, to the bridge. The structure connects the city to the state of Arkansas.

By about 7 p.m. local time (8 p.m. ET), the group had blocked all lanes on the bridge.

Memphis police asked drivers to avoid the area of I-55 and the Arkansas Bridge. Officers had trouble approaching the group because of long lines of traffic separating law enforcement from the demonstrators. Several big rigs were stuck, sitting idle as protesters blocked the lanes.

The demonstration came as CNN and other news outlets publicly played video of Tyre Nichols’ beating by police for the first time.

The crowd could be heard chanting, “No justice, no peace,” and “They’re taking our lives, we’re taking their money.”

By about 11 p.m., the crowd had diminished to around 100 people, and they seemed to be dispersing, according to Memphis Police Department spokesperson Louis Brownlee.

Brownlee said no arrests stemmed from the demonstration.