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‘We can’t breathe’: Eric Garner protesters chant his last words

Eighty-three demonstrators arrested at protests held in New York after grand jury refuses to indict police officer who placed unarmed black man in chokehold

The last words of Eric Garner became the rallying cry for protests that swirled in New York after a grand jury refused to indict a police officer who placed the unarmed black man in a chokehold, reigniting racial tensions that have been simmering for months in the US.

“I can’t breathe,” protesters chanted, in mostly peaceful demonstrations that brought longstanding strains over race to the heart of America’s most populous city. Eighty-three arrests were made during the protests overnight, an NYPD spokesman confirmed to the Guardian.

Earlier in the day, prosecutors announced the jury’s decision not to charge Daniel Pantaleo, one of the New York police department officers who had confronted Garner for selling loose cigarettes on Staten Island in July.

The protesters’ anger echoed the tensions in Ferguson, Missouri, the scene of violence and rioting after another grand jury declined to bring charges against a white police office in the killing of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager suspected of robbing a convenience store. His death sparked hundreds of protests across the country and snapped into focus seething race issues.

Garner, who was black, died in July after being put in a chokehold by Pantaleo. Police had stopped the heavy-set father of six on suspicion of selling untaxed “loose” cigarettes. Garner had been arrested previously for selling untaxed cigarettes, marijuana possession and false impersonation.

A video shot by a bystander shows Garner resisting arrest as a plainclothes officer attempts to handcuff him. Backing away from the officer, Garner tells him: “This stops today,” which has become a rallying cry for protesters in New York. After a struggle during which Garner is wrestled to the ground by several officers, he gasps “I can’t breathe” until his 350lb body goes limp.

Barack Obama, criticised for his response to unrest in Ferguson, suggested the Garner case had reaffirmed his determination to ensure all Americans are treated equally in the criminal justice system.

“When anybody in this country is not being treated equally under the law, that’s a problem,” the president said in Washington. “And it is my job as president to help solve it.”

After the decision not to bring criminal charges in New York, the US attorney general, Eric Holder, announced a federal investigation. “All lives must be valued,” Holder said. “All lives.”

Holder’s announcement was not enough to placate the anger in the city. About 200 protesters partially closed the West Side Highway, before police made several arrests, while other groups descended on various locations in midtown Manhattan, including Grand Central station, the Lincoln tunnel and Brooklyn bridge. Protesters also targeted the annual lighting of the Christmas tree at the Rockefeller Center, but were kept away from the ceremony.

As crowds rallied in Times Square, one young black man likened the treatment of minorities in the US in the 21st century to the early days of slavery. “It goes back to the foundations of the country. We’ve been dehumanised since we’ve been here, and we are being dehumanised now,” he said.

“Every 28 hours a young black man is killed by police,” one young woman told the Guardian, referring to nationwide statistics. “Only 2% of police are indicted. Those numbers are crazy. It’s telling young black men that their lives don’t matter and their deaths can be passed over.”

Groups of protesters continued marching well into the night..

The mayor of New York, Bill de Blasio, had earlier urged calm. De Blasio, who is white, said that he and his wife, Chirlane McCray, who is black, had spent years teaching their mixed-race son, Dante de Blasio, 17, how to “take special care” around police officers.

We “have had to [talk to] Dante for years about the dangers he may face,” de Blasio said in an emotional news conference. “Because of a history that still hangs over us, we’ve had to train him, as families have … in how to take special care in any interaction with the police officers who are there to protect him.”

The New York police department has long denied racial profiling in its law enforcement practices, despite a finding by federal prosecutors in 2000 that the practice was routine for street crimes units.

The mayor called on protesters to remain nonviolent, saying he had just met Ben Garner, Eric Garner’s father. “Eric would not have wanted violence,” the mayor quoted the father as saying.

De Blasio acknowledged the widespread discontent the grand jury decision was likely to cause. “It’s a very emotional day for our city,” he said. “It’s a very painful day for so many people of this city.” The mayor said the country was at a crossroads, calling discrimination and inequality before the law “all our problem”.

“Anyone who believes in the values of this country should feel a call to action right now,” De Blasio said. “It is a moment that change must happen.”

Minutes later, Garner’s family appeared alongside civil rights campaigner the Rev Al Sharpton in Harlem to address the media.

Garner’s widow, Esaw, vowed to continue fighting for justice. “As long as I have breath in my body I will fight the fight,” she said.

In Washington, Holder said that Garner’s death as well as that of unarmed teenager Brown, who was shot dead by police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson in August, “have tested the sense of trust between law enforcement and the communities they are charged to serve”.

Holder said he respected the rights of protesters to voice their disappointment but called on them to remain peaceful.

Tensions had been simmering all week as New Yorkers braced for the verdict.

Activists called for a day of action following the verdict to protest the decision not to pursue charges against Pantaleo. Protesters have also been demanding an end to a policing philosophy championed by NYPD commissioner William Bratton. The policing model, known as broken windows, emphasises attention to petty crime – such as selling untaxed cigarettes – as a means of stymying large-scale crime.

The decision may compound already frayed relations between the New York police department and minority communities, which Bratton and de Blasio have pledged to repair.

The NYPD outlawed chokeholds over two decades ago, because they can be deadly if administered inappropriately or carelessly. Still, between January 2009 and June 2014, the city’s Civilian Complaint Review Board, an independent agency that investigates police misconduct, received 1,128 civilian complaints involving chokehold allegations. Of these, only a small fraction of the cases are ever substantiated– just ten over the five and a half year window.

In the days after Garner’s death, Bratton said all 35,000 officers would be retrained on the department’s use of force policy.

Sharpton announced a rally in Washington on 13 December. “It’s time for a national march to deal with a national crisis,” he said. “We are not going away.”

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Egyptian politicians accuse US of violating rights in Ferguson

CAIRO — A new crisis is looming for US-Egyptian relations after Cairo officials verbally attacked US authorities, accusing them of violating human rights during protests in Ferguson, Mo. Protests were staged in a number of US states following a Missouri grand jury's decision not to indict a police officer who killed Michael Brown, a young African-American man.

This comes after a period of strained relations between Cairo and Washington following the fall of the Muslim Brotherhood and the Egyptian authorities' dispersal of Mohamed Morsi supporters at sit-ins at Rabia al-Adawiya and Nahda squares. Washington adopted punitive measures against the Egyptian army as a sign of opposition to what it deemed violations of peaceful protesters’ rights, even announcing the suspension of a large portion of military aid.

The new tension in US-Egyptian relations comes in light of a rapprochement between Cairo and Moscow, with the announcement of a planned visit to Cairo by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Egyptian politicians called for the formation of an Egyptian fact-finding committee to track what they called breaches by US authorities against protesters in Ferguson. The Egyptian Foreign Ministry issued an official statement criticizing US police treatment of protesters in the wake of the grand jury decision not to make an indictment. The statement further called on US authorities to observe self-restraint and to respect the right of individuals to peacefully assemble. Moreover, Egyptian Interior Ministry spokesman Hani Abdel Latif said US police used excessive force against peaceful protesters as if they were dealing with arms dealers.

The US State Department refused to compare the human rights situation in the United States with the oppression in Egypt. State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf, in her response to Cairo, said that Americans enjoyed a level of freedom of expression that Egyptians do not, and that it was enough for Washington to address its problems with transparency.

The US media treated Egypt's criticism of human rights conditions in the United States as political scolding, considering that the Egyptian Foreign Ministry's statement employed language similar to that used by the United States, when the latter had urged Cairo to use restraint in dealing with the Brotherhood protesters.

Human rights organizations around the world have the right to monitor breaches in any country, according to Tahani al-Gebali, former vice president of Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court. Gebali told Al-Monitor that she supported the formation of an Egyptian fact-finding committee to review the human rights situation in Washington.

“The Egyptian committee might include prominent international figures like international criminal judges and figures. We have the necessary competence to achieve this legal task, to investigate the violations of the US authorities of the peaceful protesters of Ferguson,” Gebali said.

When asked whether the proposal to form this committee was prompted by past US criticism of human rights conditions in Egypt, Gebali said, “The situation was different in Egypt, as there was a revolution and a change of rules. As a result, the US’ leaning toward the Brotherhood, which was toppled by the revolution, created doubts about the intentions of US organizations.”

“This does not imply the return of American-Egyptian relations to the way they used to be. On the contrary, it serves the rapprochement between Egyptians and Americans because the people are the ones who triumph in the end. This relationship will live on, while governments change and regimes fall,” she said.

Journalist and politician Mustafa Bakri, who put forth the proposition to form an Egyptian fact-finding committee, told Al-Monitor by phone, “We witnessed human rights breaches against the American people during the recent protests. Even the jury could not issue a verdict incriminating the officer who was accused of murdering a black citizen. This showed public opinion that there is meddling in the US judiciary.”

Bakri believes that Egyptian human rights organizations, including the National Council for Human Rights, should form a committee to listen to testimony and verify the facts. Bakri wondered, “Will Washington allow this committee to do its job or not?”

Bakri said that the Egyptian fact-finding committee is not a form of retaliation against the United States for criticizing Egyptian human rights abuses, but that it stems from the awareness of certain American realities under the current president.

Manal al-Tibi, a member of the National Council for Human Rights, told Al-Monitor that the organization was not ready to give up its domestic responsibilities in Egypt to monitor human rights abroad. She said, “The people calling for forming this committee are definitely playing political games, to transmit a retaliatory message to the US system and human rights organizations as a response to their repetitive criticism for the human rights situation in Egypt lately.”

“As a human rights activist, I certainly do not accept that the US police deals with protesters this way, although I do not know the circumstances of [not indicting] the US police officer accused of killing a black man. However, this is a clear case of racism, and there are many black citizens suffering from discrimination,” she said.

Egypt's criticism of US human rights violations comes as a political message — Cairo is returning the same blow that Barack Obama’s administration and civil society organization leveled against it after June 30.

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Ramsey Orta "100% Sure" Cops Arrested Him As Revenge For Filming Fatal Chokehold

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Ramsey Orta, who filmed a police officer fatally choking a Staten Island man during an arrest, was arraigned on gun charges yesterday. Orta is convinced the arrest was NYPD-style retribution, telling the Staten Island Advance that he's "100% sure" the cops set him up.

Police say that Orta tried to hide a gun on a 17-year-old girl on Saturday. Orta has been in the spotlight since the Daily News obtained his video documenting the July 17 arrest of Eric Garner, who died while the police were trying to restrain him and put him in a chokehold. Last week, Garner's death was ruled a homicide.

Orta insisted the gun wasn't his, "When they searched me, they didn't find nothing on me. And the same cop that searched me, he told me clearly himself, that karma's a bitch, what goes around comes around," Orta said, adding later, "I had nothing to do with this. I would be stupid to walk around with a gun after me being in the spotlight." He also explained what he was doing out:

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LA police shoot and kill man in Hollywood tourist area

Police say man was brandishing a Swiss Army-style knife
LAPD has been under heavy criticism for killing an unarmed man in August

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Fresh protests were expected in Los Angeles after police shot a man on the tourist-packed Hollywood Walk of Fame, adding another killing to a recent and climbing toll.

Police officers attended one of the most crowded intersections in the city on Friday night, after reports of a man with a knife on Hollywood Boulevard. A man was subsequently shot dead. Some bystanders captured video and pictures of what appeared to be a white man slumped in the road, surrounded by a group of officers with pistols drawn.

The weapon the man was reported to have been brandishing appeared to have been a small Swiss Army-style pocket knife, according to pictures posted by police on social media that showed a numbered crime scene label next to the object.

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Op zaterdag 6 december 2014 22:22 schreef Fir3fly het volgende:
Ga je alleen maar halve nieuwsberichten posten of kom je ook nog met een mening? Wordt een beetje een linkdump topic zo.

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Another Race-Based Attack In St. Louis: Black Thugs Drag Bosnian Woman Out Of Her Car and Beat Her


A 26-year-old white Bosnian woman was dragged out of her car early this morning and beaten by three black assailants in the same South St. Louis neighborhood that saw a Bosnian man bludgeoned to death with hammers earlier this week.
Police are investigating the attack as a possible hate crime because the victim says the suspects asked her if she was Bosnian during the attack.
Via St. Louis CBS Local:
According to a police report, at about 5:30 a.m., a Bosnian woman was driving on the 4600 block of Lansdowne when three black males in their late-teens to early-20s stepped in front of her vehicle.
When the woman tried to drive around them, the suspects reportedly pulled out a firearm, so she stopped the car.
After hitting her windshield with a crowbar, the suspects pulled the woman from her car, threw her on the ground and kicked her.
A suspect grabbed her purse, searched it, and told the others it was empty. All three suspects then fled the scene.
Police say the woman said she thought the crime was racially motivated because the suspects asked her if she was Bosnian.
St. Louis Mayor Slay has been forced by the evidence to admit the obvious:
“This has all the appearances of a hate crime based on the information that we have,” St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay responds. “The fact that they did suggest that she was a Bosnian – she was a Bosnian lady. We’ve already turned this over to the FBI.”
Early Sunday morning in the same neighborhood, Bosnian Seldin Dranovic was beaten by three teens wielding hammers; but he managed to escape. An hour later Bosnian Zemir Begic would not be so lucky. He was brutally bludgeoned to death by the same groups of thugs.
It is becoming apparent that some blacks in this South St. Louis neighborhood feel a great deal of resentment and animosity toward the Bosnian community.
A YouTube video flagged by Jim Hoft of Gateway Pundit features a delusional black woman named Mary Omni ranting incoherently about Bosnians and suggesting that they deserve to die.
“Ferguson, Bosnian death immigrant warning is this. You are on these black young men 14th birthrights and land rights. If there’s an accident that occurs you are considered the invader and embezzler thief. You came to build a dream on the 14th Constitutional nation of supremacy. Fourteenth biblical inheritors… The Bosnian immigrant was invading. The Bosnian immigrant was joining globalists and they came to America for the American dream at the expense of black infant babies. At the expense of the Mike Brown. At the expense of the black housing. At the expense of the black’s education… The immigrant Bosnian is seen as a foreign invader and a thief.”
She defended those who attacked with hammers on Sunday, declaring that they had "the contract - the Bosnian don't have the contract to be here."
Then, chillingly, she recited the lyrics to the classic folk song, "If I has a Hammer."
If I had a hammer, I hammer in the morning, I hammer in the evening, I hammer out all over this land. I'll hammer out danger, I hammer out warning, I hammer out love between my brothers and my sisters all over this land. So if I had a hammer, I'll hammer in the morning, I'll hammer in the evening, I hammer out justice, I'll hammer out danger and I'll hammer out warning. I'll hammer out love between my brothers and my sisters, all over this land.
She called the Bosnian who was murdered, a casualty of his invasion and thieving and suggested that the murderers were blameless.
The video is entitled Ferguson Bosnian Death Warning!

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Op zondag 7 december 2014 10:26 schreef robin007bond het volgende:

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Zucht. De VS heeft een historie van politiegeweld tegen mensen van kleur, vandaar de woede.

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Op zondag 7 december 2014 10:28 schreef Kaneelstokje het volgende:

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De VS heeft een historie van politiegeweld. Punt.

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Op zondag 7 december 2014 10:32 schreef Kosmoproleet het volgende:

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Simplisme.

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Op zondag 7 december 2014 10:33 schreef Kosmoproleet het volgende:
De welvaartsgap tussen een modaal blank gezin en een modaal donker gezin in de USA is groter dan die in Zuid-Afrika onder apartheid.

Genoeg stof tot denken.

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CA Cop is Being Fired for NOT Using Violence to Resolve a Situation

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Seaside, CA — A 20 year veteran of the CSU Monterey Bay police force, was given a notice of termination this week for choosing NOT to immediately resort to violent escalation during a confrontation with a suicidal student.

The unidentified officer was the first one on the scene when responding to an incident involving a suicidal college student in his CSUMB dorm room in February of this year. The officer showed a heartening level of restraint when dealing with a student, who was in his room with a knife and hammer, and was also threatening to light himself on fire.

“He was clearly a danger to himself and he was in crisis,” Marina Police Chief Edmundo Rodriguez said. “We were trying to keep him from accessing the weapons or leave, to get him medical attention.”

Instead of immediately resorting to violence, this officer was talking the student down and de-escalating the situation. The officer was successful in calming the student down and was going to get him a glass of water when the Marina police department showed up, and immediately began tasering the student.

The campus officer refused to taser the student, as he did not perceive a threat. Subsequently Rodriguez’s department later issued a “failure to act” complaint against the campus officer, accusing him of not engaging in a “highly agitated situation.”

“It defies logic and is extremely disappointing that, at a time when law enforcement is under fire for using more force than necessary, an officer is being terminated for attempting to use civilized methods to resolve a situation,” the student’s father said.

“Our officer did not believe he was any threat at all,” said Jeff Solomon, the union’s president.

“The other officers started yelling and screaming to get down, Tased him multiple times, and from what we understand (told the university officer) to Tase him again,” Solomon said.

The officer has been on paid leave since April according to his attorney who said she will now file a lawsuit against the university.

“We believe the officer in this case exercised restraint and good judgment in not tasing a student that was suffering from mental health issues,” said the officer’s attorney Kathleen Storm.

This incident highlights the sick and twisted state of today’s police force. Darren Wilson shot and killed an unarmed teenager, and was not fired. Officer Daniel Pantaleo of the NYPD, placed Eric Garner in a chokehold, a maneuver which has been prohibited by the department since 1993, eventually killing the man. The entire incident was caught on video and Pantaleo was not fired.

This campus officer chose to use non-violence to try and resolve a situation, instead of killing or maiming a person, and he is being fired for it.

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Anonymous Shuts Down Oakland Police, Fire Dept, City Websites.

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The online hacktivist Anonymous has conducted a massive cyber attack on the official website of Oakland police, fire department and city website. As a result all targeted sites have been shut down.

Anonymous targeted the Oakland City Hall, Oakland police and fire departments website around 11 a.m.

It’s been few hours now that all sites are still down and readers are welcomed with warning messages like ”The page cannot be displayed Explanation: There is a problem with the page you are trying to reach and it cannot be displayed.”

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The news of targeting these sites was announced by Anonymous on their Twitter account. The cyber attack was conducted under the banner of #ShutItDown and #ICantBreathe. (These hashtags show Anonymous has targeted these sites in retaliation against recent killings of black males in the United States).

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Minority congressional staffers plan walkout in wake of Brown, Garner decisions

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Washington (CNN) -- Congressional staffers plan to walk off their jobs Thursday afternoon to show their support for the families of Michael Brown and Eric Garner in the wake of the decision by two grand juries not to indict the police officers responsible for their deaths, according to three staffers who plan to participate in the event.

The planned walkout comes after days of protests across the country, including in Washington, D.C., where demonstrators have marched through downtown, blocking roads and bridges on an almost nightly basis since last Wednesday's decision by a grand jury in Staten Island not to indict Officer Daniel Pantaleo in the chokehold death of Garner.

"We're proud to have this moment of solidarity with the families of Michael Brown and Eric Garner and the thousands of peaceful protesters around the country who are telling this country that black lives matter," said one staffer who was helping to plan the event.

The Congressional Asian Pacific American Staff Association and the Congressional Hispanic Staff Association joined black staffers and the Congressional Black Associates in planning the event, which is set to take place at 3:30 p.m., and is expected to draw at least 50 people. A staffer who planned to attend the protest said it was important to show support across racial lines.

"I believe it's important, because what affects one community really affects the entire country," the staffer told CNN. "It's not just one group of minorities that's affected. How one group is treated affects Asians, Hispanics, women. It's important that we show our solidarity and come together and really speak out about the injustices that are being done."

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Cleveland mayor slams government review of city's police force

Mayor Frank Jackson said that he disagreed with the DOJ’s findings, and said that his office would be conducting its own review

The mayor of Cleveland spoke out against a Department of Justice review of the city’s police department that found a pattern of unnecessary and unconstitutional use of force and that was released not long after the fatal shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice by a police officer in November.

In a rambling and at times incoherent 90-minute conversation with reporters Thursday, mayor Frank Jackson said that he disagreed with the DOJ’s findings, and said that his office would be conducting its own review.

“In terms of systemic failure, it relieves people of the responsibility to make decisions,” he said, “and people make decisions, and they should be made responsible for their decisions. Do we have problems? Yes. Do we have systemic failures? No.”

On 9 December, Attorney General Eric Holder announced that a civil rights investigation performed by his department found that Cleveland police officers engaged in “a pattern or practice of unreasonable and unnecessary use of force,” including deadly force.

The investigation, which was highly critical of the Cleveland police department, was conducted at the request of the mayor; but while Jackson said he welcomed the report he also appeared to want to distance himself from its findings.

“I just try to do the right thing, and wherever that leads me, I will go,” he said. “What I will not listen to are those with agendas, or those who use this tragedy to promote agendas.”

Jackson, a Democrat who has been in office since 2006, said the day Rice was shot was the worst day of his mayoralty.

“We don’t believe there is a systemic failure; but we do have a problem. We will ferret out what that problem is, and then we will reach an agreement with the Justice Department on a consent decree.”

He said that negotiations were already underway, and added that if his office could reach an agreement with the DOJ, then they would be happy to have a monitor.

The mayor spoke of his admiration for the “sincerity” of those protesting the shooting of Rice, but also praised the city’s Public Safety Director, Michael McGrath, who has been facing calls to resign.

Jackson called him “the only person … who put himself in the line of fire.”

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Undercover police officer pulls gun on Oakland protesters after cover blown

Plainclothes California highway patrol officers have walked among demonstrators for weeks: report

An undercover California highway patrol officer who had infiltrated protests against police violence in Oakland pulled a gun on demonstrators after his and his partner’s cover was blown.

According to accounts in the San Francisco Chronicle and the Berkeley Daily Planet, a few dozen protesters remaining from larger demonstrations yelled that two men in plainclothes were police.

“Just as we turned up 27th Street, the crowd started yelling at these two guys, saying they were undercover cops,” the Chronicle’s freelance photographer Michael Short told the newspaper on Thursday.

The Berkeley Daily Planet reported that the two men tried to walk away, but the couple of dozen remaining protesters “persisted, screaming at the two undercover cops”. The Planet said that an officer “pushed a protester aside”. The demonstrator allegedly pushed back and was tackled and handcuffed.

“Somebody snatched a hat off the shorter guy’s head and he was fumbling around for it. A guy ran up behind him, knocked him down on the ground. That guy jumped backed up and chased after him and tackled him and the crowd began surging on them,” Short said.

He told the Chronicle that the officer pulled a small baton out, then a gun, after the crowd started “surging” them. The Planet reported that more officers quickly moved in to disperse demonstrators.

In a stunning admission, the patrol’s Golden Gate Division told the San Francisco Chronicle that officers had been dressing like and walking with protesters since the first demonstration on 24 November, attempting to gather intelligence to stop highway shutdowns.

Protesters have flooded the streets of the San Francisco Bay area for weeks, since grand juries in New York and Missouri refused to indict police officers for shooting unarmed black men. Many protests have shut down highways, and some in Berkeley have turned violent, resulting in fires and looting.

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Justice for All march against police killings begins in Washington – live coverage

Thousands expected to march in cities around US including New York
Protests concern deaths of Michael Brown, Eric Garner and others

Another march on Washington? After Ferguson, that’s not change

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Milwaukee cop will not be charged in shooting of unarmed black man, says DA

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Manney is at least the third white police officer in the US this year to not be charged after a confrontation that led to a black man’s death.

Manney shot 31-year-old Hamilton on 30 April after responding to a call for a welfare check on a man sleeping in the park. Manney said Hamilton resisted when he tried to frisk him. The two exchanged punches before Hamilton got a hold of Manney’s baton and hit him on the neck with it, the former officer has said. Manney then opened fire, hitting Hamilton 14 times.

Hamilton’s family said he suffered fromschizophrenia and had recently stopped taking his medication.

Police chief Edward Flynn fired Manney in October, saying Manney instigated the fight with an inappropriate pat-down. The chief said Manney correctly identified Hamilton as mentally ill but ignored his training and department policy, and treated him as a criminal.

“You don’t go hands-on and start frisking somebody only because they appear to be mentally ill,” Flynn said when he announced Manney had been dismissed.

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Antonio Martin named locally as man shot dead by police in St Louis – live updates

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A crowd of about 100 people gathered at the Mobile gas station at the height of the protests, but the scene is now calmer, according to reports and video.