• A demonstrator being arrested in Chicago, Illinois on Saturday. ‘I can’t breathe’ were the last words uttered repeatedly by Garner, as police wrestled him to the ground for allegedly selling untaxed cigarettes in New York’s Staten Island. Scott Olson/Getty Images/AFP
    A demonstrator being arrested in Chicago, Illinois on Saturday. ‘I can’t breathe’ were the last words uttered repeatedly by Garner, as police wrestled him to the ground for allegedly selling untaxed cigarettes in New York’s Staten Island. Scott Olson/Getty Images/AFP
  • The Empire State Building is seen in the background while people march against police violence, in Midtown Manhattan, New York. Eduardo Munoz / Reuters
    The Empire State Building is seen in the background while people march against police violence, in Midtown Manhattan, New York. Eduardo Munoz / Reuters
  • Demonstrators marching in near-freezing temperatures have taken over automobile lanes of the Lincoln Tunnel, Brooklyn Bridge and West Side Highway in New York as well as Lake Shore Drive in Chicago. Scott Olson/Getty Images/AFP
    Demonstrators marching in near-freezing temperatures have taken over automobile lanes of the Lincoln Tunnel, Brooklyn Bridge and West Side Highway in New York as well as Lake Shore Drive in Chicago. Scott Olson/Getty Images/AFP
  • Demonstrators march along the Magnificent Mile shopping district on Michigan Avenue in Chicago – one of many staged nationwide in response to grand juries’ failure to indict white police officers involved in the the deaths of black men. Scott Olson/Getty Images/AFP
    Demonstrators march along the Magnificent Mile shopping district on Michigan Avenue in Chicago – one of many staged nationwide in response to grand juries’ failure to indict white police officers involved in the the deaths of black men. Scott Olson/Getty Images/AFP
  • In Boston, more than 20 people were arrested for disorderly conduct after scuffling with officers blocking a highway on-ramp. AP Photo/The Boston Herald, Faith Ninivaggi
    In Boston, more than 20 people were arrested for disorderly conduct after scuffling with officers blocking a highway on-ramp. AP Photo/The Boston Herald, Faith Ninivaggi
  • Though police in Washington did not provide an estimate of the crowd size, it appeared far larger than the 5,000 people organisers initially said they’d expected. Joshua Roberts/Reuters
    Though police in Washington did not provide an estimate of the crowd size, it appeared far larger than the 5,000 people organisers initially said they’d expected. Joshua Roberts/Reuters
  • In New York, police said approximately 25,000 took to the streets. People shout slogans against police as they take part in the march in New York. Eduardo Munoz/Reuters
    In New York, police said approximately 25,000 took to the streets. People shout slogans against police as they take part in the march in New York. Eduardo Munoz/Reuters
  • The mixed crowds of black and white mobilised many young people but also families, children, parents and the elderly. Saul Loeb/AFP Photo
    The mixed crowds of black and white mobilised many young people but also families, children, parents and the elderly. Saul Loeb/AFP Photo
  • A woman shouts slogans against police brutality while marching on the streets of Manhattan, New York on Saturday. Elizabeth Shafiroff/Reuters
    A woman shouts slogans against police brutality while marching on the streets of Manhattan, New York on Saturday. Elizabeth Shafiroff/Reuters

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Thousands take to the streets to protest US police killings - in pictures

Rob Gurdebeke

December 14, 2014

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From New York to Washington to Boston, tens of thousands of protesters stepped up deomonstrations across the United States demanding justice for black men killed by white policemen. Grand jury decisions not to prosecute the white officers responsible for the death of black teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, and a fatal chokehold of Eric Garner in New York, have triggered weeks of protests.

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