'We can't breathe': Photos of protests in US after Eric Garner's chokehold death

'We can't breathe': Photos of protests in US after Eric Garner's chokehold death

FP Staff December 5, 2014, 12:09:37 IST

Protesters conduct a lie-in to protest against the deaths of unarmed black men at the hands of white police officers in New York City and Ferguson.

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'We can't breathe': Photos of protests in US after Eric Garner's chokehold death
A demonstrator screams as others protest the deaths of two unarmed black men at the hands of white police officers in New York City and Ferguson, Mo. by laying in the street as they march through Pittsburgh on Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
(L) Jennifer Myers, one of the demonstrators protesting the deaths of two unarmed black men at the hands of white police officers in New York City and Ferguson, Mo. lays a rose in a symbolic chalk body outline during a march through Pittsburgh. (R) A demonstrator holds up a sign as he lays in the street with others protesting the deaths of two unarmed black men at the hands of white police officers in New York City and Ferguson, Mo. during a march through Pittsburgh on Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014.  AP
FILE - This combination of undated photos provided by the Brown family and the Garner family via the National Action Network shows Michael Brown, left, the black 18-year-old who was fatally shot by a white police officer in Ferguson, Mo. in August 2014, and Eric Garner, who died after a white police officer had him in a chokehold in the Staten Island borough of New York in July 2014. The cases of Brown and Garner involve an unarmed black man killed by a white police officer in a confrontation over a relatively minor crime. But there are sharp differences, too, in the circumstances of the Aug. 9 and July 17 killings. AP
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Thousands of protestors march through traffic up Tremont Street, next to the annual Christmas tree lighting ceremony, during a demonstration against the deaths of two unarmed black men at the hands of white police officers in New York City and Ferguson, Mo., in Boston, Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014.  AP
Thousands of protestors sit down on the Charlestown Bridge, blocking traffic into Downtown Boston, during a demonstration against the deaths of two unarmed black men at the hands of white police officers in New York City and Ferguson, Mo., in Boston, Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014.  At rear is the Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge.  AP
Protesters hold signs in Atlanta on Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014 during a demonstration against the deaths of two unarmed black men at the hands of white police officers in New York City and Ferguson, Mo. AP
Protestors pass as police block an entrance to a tunnel to Logan Airport during a demonstration against the deaths of two unarmed black men at the hands of white police officers in New York City and Ferguson, Mo., in Boston, Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014. AP
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