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NYC Prepares For Mass Civil Disobedience After Jury Refuses To Indict Cops in Garner Killing (Picture)
ours after a grand jury cleared an NYPD officer in the chokehold death of Eric Garner, crowds gathered at the site on Staten Island where the 43-year-old father died as others began a silent “lie-down” protest at Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan and still others marched toward Times Square shouting, “I can’t breathe!”
Some headed toward Rockefeller Center in an apparent effort to disrupt the tree lighting ceremony, but were unable to get past police. Later, demonstrators marched on the West Side Highway near the 40s and 50s, gridlocking it for blocks at a time. There were also backups at the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge, the Lincoln Tunnel and the Brooklyn Bridge.
Crowds gathered at Times Square, Union Square and Foley Square following the grand jury’s decision Wednesday not to indict NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo, who was seen on amateur video wrapping his hand around Garner’s neck July 17 as the heavyset, asthmatic man gasped for air.
Around 30 people were arrested by late Wednesday night, police said. There have been no reports of injuries.
NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton said earlier in the week that the NYPD was anticipating protests and that the department had been preparing for them for months.
Extra patrols were deployed at Rockefeller Plaza, and to the site of the chokehold in Tompkinsville, Staten Island, where several protesters rallied outside a store chanting, “No justice, no peace.” A police spokesman said mobile units were in place to respond to protests developing across the city. MOREHERE
WAKE UP PEOPLE!!!!! THIS ERIC GARNER GARBAGE IS A HOAX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GIVE ME A BREAK !!!
Calling an ‘event’ a hoax is an old dis-info tactic used by the KKK and the Masonic Order……they scream HOAX anytime they want a subject to ‘die.’
Why are you calling standing up for justice disobedience? How come they have been preparing for it for months?