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 highway was shut down due to the demonstrations
Photos were uploaded to Twitter on Wednesday evening.
Cops were seen trying to get protesters out the highway. Some were arrested.
The son of Garner, Eric Snipes, told the NY Daily News that there woudn’t be any Ferguson-like riots in the 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,” Snipes told the paper. “I want him to get indicted.”
Protesters in NYC shut down part of the West Side Highway: http://t.co/9W47KMiN3H pic.twitter.com/WOkQxp8oBP #EricGarner
— Trove (@trove) December 4, 2014
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
