Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Police shut down excessive force protest on Brooklyn Bridge

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Police brutality protesters in New York City and across the United States took to the streets on Tuesday as part of a national day of protesting organized by the Stop Mass Incarceration Network


Several hundred protesters gathered in Union Square Tuesday afternoon, chanting as they marched south toward the Brooklyn Bridge



Protests against excessive police force have spread throughout the country since August, when an unarmed black 18-year-old named Michael Brown was shot and killed by a white police officer named Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri. Since then, the deaths of several other black men killed by police also made national headlines, prompting multiple demonstrations across the U.S. Read more...






from MashableColin Daileda
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