A city employee was fired Friday after being arrested for demonstrating in protests that blocked traffic and diverted an ambulance on Interstate 93 Thursday morning, officials said.
Nelli Ruotsalainen was charged on seven counts including resisting arrest as a result of the protest in Milton, said Bonnie McGilpin, a spokeswoman for Mayor Martin J. Walsh. The Boston Herald first reported the firing in Saturday’s paper.
According to the office of Norfolk District Attorney Michael W. Morrissey, Ruotsalainen, 25, of Roxbury, pleaded not guilty in Quincy District Court Thursday to trespassing, throwing glass on a public way, willfully obstructing an emergency vehicle, conspiracy, disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, and throwing an object on a public way.
She was released on personal recognizance, Morrissey’s office said in a statement, and is expected to return to court April 9 for a pretrial conference.
The protests were held north of the city in Medford and south in Milton, where some demonstrators chained themselves to barrels filled with concrete. The protest shut down traffic on I-93 northbound
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