Scenes From the Eric Garner Protests (Photos)
Demonstrators took to the streets across the country Wednesday after a grand jury decided not to indict a white New York City police officer in the death of the unarmed black man.
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Protesters shout at Times Square after it was announced that the New York City police officer involved in the death of Eric Garner is not being indicted. A grand jury cleared the white officer Wednesday in the videotaped chokehold death of Garner, an unarmed black man who had been stopped on suspicion of selling loose, untaxed cigarettes, a lawyer for the victim’s family said. A video shot by an onlooker and widely viewed on the Internet showed the 43-year-old Garner telling a group of police officers to leave him alone as they tried to arrest him. The city medical examiner ruled Garner’s death a homicide and found that a chokehold contributed to it.
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A protester yells as he is detained during a demonstration against police violence and the grand jury decision in the Eric Garner case, in front of the Thomas F. Eagleton U.S. Courthouse in St. Louis, Missouri.
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A child reads posters at the makeshift memorial where Eric Garner died in the Staten Island borough of New York.
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Rev. Al Sharpton (L), president of the National Action Network, Gwen Carr (2nd-L), mother of Eric Garner, and Esaw Garner (R), widow of Eric Garner, hold a press conference Wednesday in New York, after the grand jury decision.
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Demonstrators gather at Columbus Circle to protest a grand jury decision on the death of Eric Garner in New York.
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A demonstrator in Times Square holds a sign during a protest against the grand jury decision in the Eric Garner case.
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A demonstrator in Times Square holds her hands up during a protest against the grand jury decision in the Eric Garner case.
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Demonstrators block traffic at K Street and Vermont Avenue, NW, during a protest in Washington, D.C., against a New York grand jury decision.
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Protesters block traffic at K Street and Vermont Avenue, NW in Washington, D.C.
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