No arrests made after Mauna Kea protest

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Seven activists who chained themselves to a cattle guard on Mauna Kea Access Road to block construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope on Monday were told they were free to go after an hours-long standoff with police.

The seven were supposed to be placed under arrest. But Kaleikoa Kaeo, who had been chained next to longtime Hawaiian activist Walter Ritte Jr., said officials with the state Attorney General’s office told the seven that they were free to leave this afternoon.

An “extraction team” that was supposed to come to the site to cut up the cattle guard so that the protesters could be removed, Kaeo said, but the decision to drop the effort to arrest them was made “due to issues concerning health and safety, and our safety also.”