Several arrests have been made in New York after protesters shut down Brooklyn Bridge, RT's Aleksey Yaroshevsky reports from the site.
Tuesday’s nationwide event was organized by the Stop Mass Incarceration Network. The group is demanding that “the murder of Black and Brown people by the police MUST STOP”; calling for “justice for all the victims of brutal, murdering police”; asking the court system to “indict, convict and send killer cops to jail” because “the whole damn system is guilty as hell”; and to “stop the repression targeting the protests” by dropping all charges against protesters.
Protesters are shutting down Brooklyn Bridge #ShutDownA14pic.twitter.com/ysFhQCwaVm
— Alexey Yaroshevsky (@Yaro_RT) April
14, 2015
"On April 14, we're going to revive the spirit of Ferguson,
that spirit of refusing to suffer the brutality of the system in
silence. And we're going to take it high. We have to get back out
into the streets to declare that we're not backing down, we're
not going away,” activist Carl Dix told the War is a Crime
Organization.
Not only have the NYPD arrested several protesters, they also stopped a car and told passengers to put hands where they could see themIn New York City, hundreds of protesters marched from Union Square south towards City Hall. The demonstrators shut down Broadway, participating in a die-in at the corner of Broadway and Houston, RT’s Alexey Yaroshevsky reported.
— Alexey Yaroshevsky (@Yaro_RT) April 14, 2015
The group converged on City Hall and the New York Police Department headquarters.
“We got a black president, black attorney general, black cabinet secretary of Homeland Security, but we haven’t had one federal prosecution of a policeman for killing all of those folks,” activist Dr. Cornel West told an audience, noting that one African American or Latino has been killed on average every 28 hours.
Over 200 people gathered in Chicago’s Daley Center to “disrupt business as usual,” and demonstrators blocked traffic on State Street, according to Chicago Sun Times reporter Maudlyne Ihejirika.
In Oakland, California, organizers are “pushing revolutionary communism” and reading Bob Avakian. They have also occupied the entrance to City Hall.
#ShutDownA14
in #Oakland.
Whistles and chants make for a deafening noise in City Hall.
pic.twitter.com/DthTflWqD0
— David DeBolt (@daviddebolt) April
14, 2015
Across the bridge in San Francisco, demonstrators marched down
Mission Street towards the police station in the Mission
District, especially protesting the death of Amilcar Perez-Lopez,
a 21-year-old Guatemalan immigrant who was shot by plain clothes
San Francisco Police officers Craig Tiffe and Eric Rebodi on
February 26, the Guardsman reported.
A simultaneous protest occurred in front of City Hall, according to KNTV.
In Southern California, protesters gathered in front of the Los Angeles Police Department.
#NOW
Skirmishes outside @Sfpd
mission station as police order protesters off sidewalk.
#KTVU#ShutDownA14pic.twitter.com/C1LWiqABVt
— David Stevenson (@DStevensonKTVU) April
14, 2015
#ShutDownA14
Chicago Daley Plaza pic.twitter.com/Na56QFPuoc
— Missy Enaje (@melissamissye) April
14, 2015
