Protesters have amassed on the West Side Highway on Wednesday night following a grand jury’s decision not to return an indictment on a Staten Island police officer who killed a man, Eric Garner, several months earlier.
The son of Garner, Eric Snipes, told the NY Daily News that there woudn’t be any Ferguson-like riots in New York City. “I’d tell them to go to the video and see what the officer did, and believe that what he did was a crime,” he said. “I want him to get indicted.”
More photos of protesters on West Side Highway #EricGarner pic.twitter.com/AR2zVexkP5
— Dan Linden (@DanLinden) December 4, 2014
NYPD officers have blocked off protesters trying to walk down Manhattan’s West Side Highway #EricGarner pic.twitter.com/lhrtD020wp
— Dan Linden (@DanLinden) December 4, 2014
Die in starts, silent, at 435 pm. Cops circle. #ericgarner pic.twitter.com/PBnYpWDDxJ
— Will Dizard (@willdizard) December 3, 2014
NOW: Protester Stage ‘Die-In’ At Grand Central Terminal In #NYC –#EricGarner MORE: – http://t.co/UwqARnxlN0 pic.twitter.com/VItCZxhc2p
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) December 3, 2014
Protesters are lying down in Grand Central Terminal as police circle. No train traffic blocked yet #EricGarner pic.twitter.com/MATPcngzeB
— Andy Campbell (@AndyBCampbell) December 3, 2014