It’s encouraging to see so many people protesting, but depressing that after all these years, they still have to protest:
In Atlanta and Boston and New York and Los Angeles, they marched by the hundreds or the thousands — blocking bridges, tunnels and major highways as they shouted their anger over a Missouri grand jury’s decision not to indict Officer Darren Wilson.
A day after St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch announced there would be no criminal charges against Wilson for the fatal shooting of Michael Brown, there were protests in more than 170 U.S. cities.
In the Big Apple, protesters shut down lanes of the FDR, known more formally as the Franklin D. Roosevelt East River Drive, as they chanted, “Mike Brown! Mike Brown!”
It was just one of several long lines of demonstrators make its way through the city. Police, who were nearby in large numbers, stayed back and let the marchers go.
Covered protests for 15 years never seen anything like this. #ferguson2nyc pic.twitter.com/z6hCZ6DfHz
— Josh Davis (@joshabla) November 26, 2014
WATCH LIVE: Group marching peacefully through downtown #Oakland: http://t.co/VFCHYKuEsn #Ferguson #MichaelBrown pic.twitter.com/4D9agrYeG7
— ABC7 News (@abc7newsBayArea) November 26, 2014
My City ✊ Highway blocked by protesters. .#HandsUpDontShoot
Every law enforcement officer—-police, DEA agent, US Marshall, all of them—-must be equipped with a body camera which is required to remain on while they are on duty. If the NSA can monitor us 24/7, then we can monitor the police 24/7. It’s time to end the police state.
They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind