Saturday marked the fourth day of continuous protests in New York City for Eric Garner and more are expected on Sunday. The royals arrive from the UK this afternoon and the NYPD is beefing up security to make sure no one bothers them. Meanwhile, at a demonstration against police violence in Berkeley, police responded with […]
Protests against a grand jury’s decision not to indict a Staten Island cop for putting Eric Garner in a fatal chokehold continued for a third night in New York and other cities. Despite the pouring rain, protesters marched through the streets and held a die-in at Apple’s flagship store in Manhattan. Garner’s mom, Gwen Carr, […]
Just ahead of the funeral on Saturday morning, more than 100 friends, family, and elected officials gathered at the Brown Memorial Baptist Church in Clinton Hill on Friday night for the wake of Akai Gurley. Over 100 people attend the wake for Akai Gurley at the Brown Memorial Baptist Church in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. pic.twitter.com/K0pyR0klB3 […]
Perhaps sensing the historic nature of the protests for Eric Garner and other unarmed black men and women who have been killed without any recourse from the law, some parents brought their children out to Foley Square on Thursday night. The massive event drew thousands of people, who used the location as a gathering point. […]
Spotted in Brooklyn: A little girl who wants to dance, and a bunch of strangers just as eager to join her. Frustrated by a Staten Island jury’s failure to indict an NYPD officer for the death of Eric Garner and filled with hope by the city’s mass protests, New Yorkers are feeling a lot of […]
Protests demanding justice for Eric Garner moved throughout the city for a second day with a reported 223 people being arrested as demonstrators shut down transportation networks and blocked roadways. ANIMAL captured footage of one of those arrests, at at 10:39 PM in Times Square. Marchers had blocked the intersection of 7th Avenue and 42nd Street. […]
According to sources speaking with the Daily News, the cop who shot Akai Gurley in an East New York stairwell decided to text his union rep instead of helping the dying man. After the rookie officer entered a darkened stairwell in the Louis H. Pink Houses with his gun drawn, the officers have said there […]
Tensions ran high between Eric Garner protesters and NYPD officers on Wednesday night near Rockefeller Center. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
The NYPD braced itself for a second night of protests after more than a thousand people marched across the city on Wednesday night, outraged by a Staten Island jury’s failure to charge officer Daniel Pantaleo in the death of unarmed black man Eric Garner. 83 people were arrested. While outgoing U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder […]
New Yorkers expressed their collective anger, frustration, and disappointment over a grand jury’s decision not to indict NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo over the death of unarmed black man Eric Garner on Wednesday night, launching a 50-person “die-in” in Grand Central Station, sending dozens to the Staten Island street where Garner was arrested this summer, and […]
