On Wednesday, Ferguson police authorities arrested city residents who were planning to protest and block part of Interstate 70 near the St. Louis suburb where unarmed African-American 18-year-old Michael Brown was fatally shot by 28-year-old white police officer, Darren Wilson last month.

Since the incident, the town of 21,000 has been racked with protests and subsequent arrests, with today's conflict being only the latest in a sequence of violence between the citizens and the police of Ferguson

Groups of protesters gathered in the middle of a road near the interstate on-ramps Wednesday as part of their plans to block access to the highway. Police warned protesters to stay out of the street. Some refused and at least seven were then cuffed by the police. 

Protest organizers apparently wanted to bring rush hour traffic in Ferguson to a stand still on I-70 and expected to be arrested.

These arrests come just one day after the first Ferguson city council meeting since the shooting of Brown. At the meeting, demonstrators came in and called for the city's mayor and several other elected officials to step down.

Demonstrators reportedly came into the meeting and chanted "Shut it down!" with their hands raised in the air.  This has been a gesture used by many involved in the month-long protests to symbolize what many believe were Michael Brown's final actions prior to him being killed.

At the council meeting, officials discussed proposed ordinances for the city that would include reducing revenue from court fines used for general city operations and reforming court procedures. This discussion comes from many claiming that that the reliance on court revenue and traffic fines to fund city services has caused low-income defendants who cannot afford private attorneys to be more heavily penalized than anyone else. The low-income individuals are typically jailed for not paying fines on time when, they argue, there was no way they could afford them in the first place.

Fox News reports that one protestor at the meeting spoke on the microphone. "You've lost your authority to govern this community," said St. Louis activist John Chasnoff. "You're going to have to step aside peacefully if this community is going to heal."

Indeed, the murder of Michael Brown has been the lynchpin for an overwhelming amount of racial and prejudicial outcry from the community against local law enforcement. 

NBC news has reported that the Justice Department intends to launch a broad civil rights investigation into the Ferguson Police Department. However, as today's arrests prove, this situation is long way from being resolved.