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NY Protests Continue; Protesters Shut Down Missouri Highway; Court Backs Chicago Occupy Arrests
NY Protests Continue Despite Mayor’s Plea. Hundreds of protesters gathered in New York City Tuesday evening, showing they don’t plan to halt demonstrations, despite Mayor Bill de Blasio’s call to suspend their actions until the two NYPD officers killed over the weekend have been laid to rest. About 300 demonstrators clogged city streets after gathering at 59th Street and Fifth Avenue, proceeding as they’d planned weeks earlier.
Protesters Mourn Antonio Martin, Shut Down Missouri Highway. Minutes before Christmas Day officially started, a few dozen activists stood outside the Cathedral Basilica in Berkeley, Missouri, with lit candles and posters in memory of Antonio Martin, a black 18-year-old who was fatally shot by a police officer Tuesday night.
Court Backs Chicago Curfew Law Used To Arrest Occupy Protesters. A state appeals court says a Chicago curfew law invoked to arrest Occupy protesters at the city’s best known park in 2011 doesn’t violate free speech rights, declaring the First Amendment “does not guarantee the right to employ every conceivable method of communication at all times and in all places.”
