NEW YORK – un altro poliziotto bianco, Daniel Pantaleo, è stato assolto da un Gran Giurì per aver ucciso , soffocandolo, a Staten Island lo scorso 17 luglio, un nero disarmato e innocuo, Eric Garner, 43 anni padre di sei figli.
A una settimana dagli episodi di Ferguson, ancora proteste , questa volta a New York, anzi a Staten Island, nel pomeriggio di ieri, quando abbiamo avuto la notizia che si è diffusa in un lampo, tramite i messaggi su Twitter
la città, che doveva festeggiare l’avvio della stagione natalizia con l’illuminazione gioiosa dell’albero di Natale al Rockefeller Center, è stata invece travolta dalla protesta. In serata abbiamo visto cortei di ogni genere in ogni angolo di Manhattan
Protests erupt in New York after jury decision in police death
New York (AFP) – Thousands of protesters hit the streets of New York after a grand jury declined to charge a white police officer in the choking death of a black man, days after a similar decision sparked unrest in US cities.
Soon after the decision by the grand jury, hundreds of protesters converged on Rockefeller Center and in New York City’s iconic Times Square chanting “No justice, no peace,” the rallying cry of demonstrators already angered by a separate grand jury decision last week not to indict a white policeman in the fatal shooting of black teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.
Police made at least 30 arrests, New York Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said.
A series of small protests converged into a march of about 5,000 people down Broadway and eventually into Times Square, the Washington Post reported. Drivers stuck in traffic by the march honked their horns in solidarity, the paper said.
“In some cases, those may be misperceptions, but in some cases that’s a reality, and it is incumbent upon all of us as Americans… that we recognize this is an American problem and not just a black problem or a brown problem.”
The August shooting death of 18-year-old Brown by a white policeman in Ferguson sparked consecutive nights of violence and became a rallying cry for African-American communities across the United States fed up with what they say is racially biased policing.
A grand jury in that case also decided not to charge the white officer involved, triggering demonstrations in cities across America last week and into the weekend.
– Wearable cameras for cops –
A New York City medical examiner had ruled Garner’s death a homicide caused in part by the chokehold used during the arrest.
Mayor De Blasio has said authorities need to address the “underlying reality” highlighted by the deaths of Brown and Garner.
De Blasio, who is white, has a mixed-race son and said he is well aware of the difficulties young black people can face.
“We’ve had to literally train him, as families have all over this city for decades, in how to take special care in any encounter he has with the police,” the mayor said.
De Blasio noted that America is “dealing with centuries of racism.”
New York authorities announced a pilot program to equip about three dozen police officers with body cameras to record their behavior towards the public.
De Blasio hailed the tool as “one of the ways to create a real sense of transparency and accountability.”
https://news.yahoo.com/federal-rights-probe-launched-york-police-choking-death-014218749.html
Gwen Carr, mother of the late Eric Garner, listens as civil rights activist Reverend Al Sharpton (not pictured) speaks at the National Action Network in Harlem, New York December 3, 2014. Sharpton on Wednesday called for a protest march in Washington following a New York grand jury decision not to indict a white policeman in the chokehold death of Eric Garner, an unarmed black man. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri (UNITED STATES – Tags: CIVIL UNREST CRIME LAW POLITICS TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)
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