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| Subject: Protesters Use New Year's Eve to Highlight Police Brutality Thu Jan 01, 2015 1:50 am | |
| New Year's Eve brought out thick crowds of revelers, but smaller groups used the occasion to stage protests against police brutality as police noted heightened threats against officers.
The protests are a continuation of the outcry against police brutality that came after the grand jury decisions in the deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and Eric Garner in New York City.
In Boston, activists held a "die-in" during First Night, Boston's popular New Year's Eve celebration, the Associated Press reported. The demonstration was staged in front of the Boston Public Library during the evening. Others held signs that read "black lives matter."
Police reported no arrests or disruptions to nearby festivities.
In New York, protesters intended to march from Union Square towards the huge New Year's celebration in Times Square. Other protesters were advised to take signs into Times Square early and pull them out when the ball drops at midnight, as well as chanting "We Can't Breathe!" and "Black Lives Matter!" at the top of every hour.
Two NYPD officers were shot and killed last week and the NYPD has assessed 70 threats made against police officers after the Brooklyn shooting, which led to 16 arrests.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/protesters-years-eve-highlight-police-brutality/story?id=27927793 _________________ Anarcho-Capitalist, AnCaps Forum, Ancapolis, OZschwitz Contraband “The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime.”-- Max Stirner "Remember: Evil exists because good men don't kill the government officials committing it." -- Kurt Hofmann |
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