More NBA players joined ongoing nationwide protests against police violence on Tuesday night, as dozens of demonstrators again briefly blocked a California freeway.
More than 150 protesters were arrested in California overnight after shutting down a major freeway in another outbreak of nationwide demonstrations against police use of deadly force on minorities.
New York State's top prosecutor on Monday sought the power to probe all police killings of unarmed civilians in his state, following sometimes violent U.S. protests over two grand juries' moves to clear officers in the deaths of unarmed black men.
Thousands of demonstrators disrupted New York City traffic into early Thursday after a grand jury decided not to bring charges against a white police officer in the chokehold death of an unarmed black man.
A grand jury decision not to indict a New York policeman over a fatal chokehold underscores how difficult it is to charge an officer in the United States, even when the tactic appears to contradict police department policy and is caught on video.
Buzzfeed cited the NYPD use of force guidelines from 2013's NYPD Patrol Guide, which clearly states that police officers are prohibited from using chokeholds as it could kill suspects. The officer who was seen in the video wrapping his arms on Garner, Daniel Pantaleo, had been stripped off his gun and badge. The fire department has subsequently suspended four ambulance medics. Both NYPD and the fire department are conducting probes to determine whether proper procedures have been made.
