Well over ten thousand people stormed into the streets of New York City on the second night of mass protests in the wake of the decision of a Staten Island grand jury to refuse to indict the police who murdered Eric Garner. Some ten thousand rallied at Foley Square—where New York City’s police and government offices are centered. People from all walks of life chanting “Black lives matter” and “I can’t breathe.”

Chicago Comes Alive in Protest, December 4

Protest at St. Louis Federal Building / Dept. Of Justice

December 5, 2014.

Die-In at University of Chicago

Greensboro, North Carolina: WHO SHUT SHIT DOWN? WE SHUT SHIT DOWN!

December 5, 2014

December 4:
Protests Spread Across the U.S.

Tens of thousands of people, in cities across the country, took to the streets Thursday, December 4. Building on previous days, thousands in each of a number of marches in NYC shut down two bridges, two tunnels and two highways around Manhattan. In Chicago, the Dan Ryan Expressway was briefly shut down as a few protesters made their way onto the roadway. Protesters there also took over and shut down Lake Shore Drive. In Boston thousands shut down downtown. In Ferguson, St. Louis, Oakland, San Francisco, Seattle, Denver, Minneapolis, Albany, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Dallas, Pittsburgh, Richmond VA, and more, people blocked roads and highways, and held marches and "die-ins."
At schools from the University of Texas, to Princeton, to Stanford (where students shut down nearby Highway 101), students held die-ins and other protests on and off campus.

Photos of some of this are on the right.

Oakland: 500 March Through the Streets

December 3

From Class and Out into the Streets

December 3

Marches and Speak-outs in Downtown Seattle

December 3

Hundreds in Ferguson-St. Louis County Protest No Indictment in Eric Garner Murder: “I Can’t Breathe!”

December 3, 10 pm:

From the NYC Streets, Wednesday night, 9 p.m.

9:00 pm, Times Square, New York City

From the Streets of New York City Immediately After the Cop Who Murdered Eric Garner Was NOT INDICTED

New York City, Union Square, December 3, 2014, 6:00 pm

From the NYC Streets, Wednesday night, 8 p.m.

Day — and still the cop who killed Michael Brown is not indicted and is walking free! We demand justice!

Protests after Eric Garner Grand Jury Decision
December 5: Outcries Around the Country and Around the World

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The Guardian: Eric Garner chokehold protests in New York

Yes, it IS about RACE. Police murder of Black people enforces a setup that has enslaved Black people in one form or another for hundreds of years. Communication, sensitivity, diversity… has its place, but the essential problem is not just understanding racism but ENDING police murder and every dimension of the oppression of Black people.

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New York City Dec 4, City Hall. Photo: Stephanie Strickland

"Interrupt your services and spill into the streets!"
Rev. Pfleger and six other Chicago clergy call for all churches in Chicago to take their congregations to the street and interrupt traffic this Sunday to declare that BLACK LIVES MATTER.

Those who send their police to terrorize and kill people of color, and their paid mouthpieces in the media, and those who fear righteous resistance more than they hate injustice… have no right to define what is a “good protester” against police brutality and murder.

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The Los Angeles Revolution Club issued a call for people to take action on Friday, December 5 to disrupt business-as-usual—and to take pictures, post them on social media, and send to revolution.reports@yahoo.com. A reader sent in this photo of a die-in protest at Crenshaw High School in LA. Signs say “Mike Brown,” “Emmett Till,” and “Black Lives Matter.”

NO, the fact that a Black woman cop supervised the murder of Eric Garner does not “take race out of the equation.” What it does is demonstrate why more Black police are not the solution to the police murder of Black people.

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NYC Foley Square 8 pm Dec 4

Washington, DC, shutting down 395, December 4

NYC shutting down Brooklyn Bridge, December 4

Chicago, Michigan Avenue, Dec 4

Oakland, December 3

Dan Ryan freeway at Roosevelt, Chicago, December 4

Downtown St. Louis, Dec 4

Foley Square, NYC, December 4

University of Texas, December 4

Blocking the 3rd Street Tunnel, Washington D.C. December 3

Shutting down the Lincoln Tunnel, NYC, 10 pm December 3.

Times Square NYC Ayotzinapa protest chanting "Hands Up Don't Shoot" December 3

Radio City Music Hall, NYC, 8 pm Dec. 3

Chicago, 7 pm December 3

Grand Central Terminal 9pm, Dec 3, NYC

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San Francisco, shutting down Market Street, 7 pm Dec 3.

Oakland, CA, 7 pm Dec 3

Thousands of people blocked and marched up West Side Highway, NYC. 8pm-10pm Dec 3.

Woman stuck in traffic on West Side Hwy, NYC, 9 pm Dec 3.

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Die-in Grand Central Terminal NYC 4:30 pm Dec 3.

Eric Garner protest Union Square December 3 2014

At a moment when millions and millions of people in this country—and around the world—are confronting fundamental questions of what's wrong with this system that over and over and over again murders Black youth and lets the murdering police go free, whether all this can be fundamentally changed, and if so, how... people need to be in the streets demanding justice, but along with that, carve out time to watch the entire Dialogue between Cornel West and Bob Avakian: REVOLUTION AND RELIGION - The Fight for Emancipation and the Role of Religion–including (but not only) how the demand for justice for Michael Brown and other victims of police brutality and murder is spoken to. (See the section that begins at 1:44:14 through 1:49:04.)

Interview with High School Student Protesters in SF Bay Area:

"Students Are Powerful and They Won't Shut Up"

December 13, 2014

A Young Latina on the Protests: "Something I've only seen be told in history books"

December 18, 2014

Talking to revcom.us: "I can't sit it out any longer"

December 13, 2014

Scenes from Ferguson: the Uprising's Reach, and the Reaction

December 10, 2014

TWEETS:

Updated December 4: After the news broke on December 3, that the grand jury had decided NOT to indict the cop who murdered Eric Garner, many thousands of tweets went out immediately—in the hour afterward, there were more than 13,000 tweets of people voicing their outrage. Here are just some of them, including many from celebrities:

Diddy
I can't take it anymore! It's Enough, and enough is enough! Honestly my emotions are all over the… http://instagram.com/p/wKaJbzpl48/

Justice is a right all of us are entitled, not a privilege that can be denied. We need to use this… http://instagram.com/p/wK3qBFpl8Y/

Actor Aaron Paul
How do "crazy" cops keep getting away with this?!? He murdered that man. Stop the madness. #EricGarner #ICantBreathe

Author John Green
Eric Garner's last words.

The Lucas Bros.
so america is basically saying: it's ok to kill big, tall black dudes if they do anything except play sports...#ericgarner

Rapper Azealia Banks
The media is trying to scare black people into believing that our lives are worthless.
DAMN.

Orlando Jones
TIL although selling loose cigarettes is a crime apparently choking a man to death is not #RIPEricGarner

Shonda Rhimes
How is this America? #ICantBreathe

Questlove Gomez
I'm ashamed. Mostly because I'm no longer shocked at things now-a-days. Nothing is shocking. #EricGarner

iamdiddy
#WATCH when I see a cop car I get scared! My kids get scared! #UNITE #EricGarner #MikeBrown . #Fact this tragedy is not a one time occurrence this happens every day in different in the cities across America!!! #SpeakUp

John Mayer
I wouldn't feel right posting anything else before saying my heart hurts today.

Bill Maher
I'd just like to know what a cop WOULD have to do to get indicted - and what good are cop cameras since Eric Garner IS on tape?

Macklemore
RIP Eric Garner and condolences to his family. We must start holding the police accountable for their… http://instagram.com/p/wKc-FQwK6K/

MC HAMMER
Deep Hurt. We're Men. Human. We feel pain. There will be one collective cry added to these tears.Then the birth of a New Anger. #EricGarner

Michael B Jordan
Fruitvale Station..all too familiar

Musician Ezra Koenig
if ur desperately trying to justify violence against unarmed civilians in 2014, who do u think you would have been in 1964 or 1944?

u want to disprove the claims of ppl talking abt an unjust & racist system today but u would have listened during Apartheid, Jim Crow, etc??

Film director Gina PrinceBythewood
eric garner. no indictment. indictment just means a question of facts. they decided there was no need to question...

Mack™
to the family of Mr. Garner, my heart is bleeding for you… i'm sorry. this shit is killing me.

and to all the young black men… from Stapleton Projects in Staten Island, all the way to Compton in Los Angeles… STAY STRONG.

Sandra Bernhard
#ericgarner #thisstopstoday the racism the mistrust the fear think about it change it today http://www.whosay.com/l/Njz9M8I

Russell Simmons
i am deeply disappointed in the non-indictment of the police officer who killed Eric Garner. The Dept. of Justice must step in now.

Entrepreneur Mark Suster
Spent my entire day offline. Am just reading about #EricGarner non-indictment. I am shocked. Dismayed. Disappointed. In disbelief. #NotRight

John Stewart, during his opening of The Daily Show on Wednesday said:

"I honestly don't know what to say. If comedy is tragedy plus time, I need more f*cking time ... but I would really settle for less f*cking tragedy, to be honest with you...We are definitely not living in a post-racial society, and I can imagine there are a lot of people out there wondering how much of a society we're living in at all."

Chris Rock
Come on man. We can't continue to have an entire group of Americans who can be killed without consequence or justice. #EricGarner

John Legend
I am stunned by the failure to indict Eric Garner's killer.

Actor Jesse Williams
Grand Jury says guy choking person to death in front of all of us, is not worth looking into. http://bit.ly/1vMAxuG

Non-white human beings are human beings. Human beings you don't happen to like, are human beings. Human beings incidentally, have rights.

Actor Ellen Pompeo

#ericgarner #icantbreathe #enoughisenough #wethepeople ARE FED UP http://www.whosay.com/l/FgJ9LOI

Piers Morgan
How can you NOT indict a policeman for choking to death an unarmed man who screams 'I can't breathe' 8 times? #EricGarner

Writer Randa Jarrar
They can't choke this mobilization, this movement, this furiousness over the injustice of years of impunity. #BlackLivesMatter

ICE T
This Eric Garner shit is making me sick to my stomach.. We all watched a SNUFF FILM! No indictment!?? Really!?? pic.twitter.com/O7vHNT5dOv

Spike Lee
Somebody's Eyes Are http://Lying.BLACK LIVES MATTER. WE NEED THE FEDS FOR JUSTICE. These Grand Juries In… http://instagram.com/p/wKKXSdSqnH/

Mia Farrow
How is this possible!!!!!!??: NO INDICTMENT!? http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=j1ka4oKu1jo&sns=em … #EricGardner

Star Jones
Homicide: deliberate & unlawful killing of one person by another. Explain #EricGarner please. http://bit.ly/1zjH7Z2

Actor Dulé Hill
Trayvon Martin. Unarmed. Mike Brown. Unarmed. Eric Garner. Unarmed. Is there anything left to say?

Civil rights attorney Lisa Bloom
Eric Garner choked on videotape. His hands up before taken down. Not threatening anyone. Did prosecutors forget how to prosecute once again?

Former NFL player, Shaun King
Not hyperbole. The ONLY way the murder of Eric Garner is justified is because he is not truly valued as fully human.

Dancer, Taylour Paige
Set your clocks back 300 years. #Icantbreathe

Typical Black Chick

This country is littered with our blood. We've died for it and by it. #EricGarner #BlackLivesMatter #TamirRice

Big Boi
So much for body cameras #EricGarner

#EricGarner RT @TherealTaraji: I CAN'T BREATH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#EricGarner RT @BSolomonsHood: @BigBoi so maybe we didn't really see what we thought we saw according to the grand jury.

MC HAMMER
Deep Hurt. We're Men. Human. We feel pain. There will be one collective cry added to these tears.Then the birth of a New Anger. #EricGarner

Taraji P. Henson
I CAN'T BREATH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Author, Sophia A. Nelson
My stomach hurts as I see the divide in terms of RACE on what should be common sense, judeo christian beliefs on right & wrong. #EricGarner

Malcom Jamal-Warner
Bodycams on police officers. Snuff films made legal. How about showing what justice looks like? #GarnerRiceBrown

Actress Anika Noni Rose
Dear United States, it's spirit numbing, shameful, and sickly redundant. #EricGarner

Jeffrey Wright
An individual or institution can’t kill Eric Garner in that fashion & not be held accountable. #ChokedWhilePoor New America’s not having it.

Actor Penn Badgley
Ok so we know the man who filmed #EricGarner is being punished & the man who KILLED HIM is not. New York better get ready to f*cking quake.” He went on, “The entire thing is on camera. Daniel Pantaleo murdering Eric Garner. Somehow, that’s not proof. Does democracy exist?

Actress Tracie Thoms
Police chokeholds are banned. #EricGarner's death was ruled a homicide. A cop put him in a banned chokehold & killed him. It's on TAPE....

Tracee Ellis Ross
I just found out about #EricGarner.... I am in disbelief. #nojustice #thisisnotok

Mae (Natural Chica)
Kill a dog= jail time, Police kills black man on camera= no indictment #ICantBreathe #BlackLivesMatter

Omar Epps
No indictment. Wake up, there's also no more conspiracy. The plan in motion is right there on video for all eyes to see. #EricGarner

Writer Jill Filipovic
A cop killed a man ON VIDEO using a banned chokehold method and a grand jury STILL doesn't indict him? #BlackLivesMatter #EricGarner

Siobhan Thompson
If I was strangled in the street by a cop in broad daylight you can be damn sure that there'd be a trial #EricGarner #BlackLivesMatter

Gabrielle Union
I have no words left... just angry tears thru gritted teeth. #RIPEricGarner #RIPHumanity #RIPCompassion May the Lord have mercy...

Comedian Baratunde
so basically, the founding fathers got it right. we're not fully human in the eyes of the law. #america #blacklivesmatter

Comedian The Tyler Richardson
So, what IS an indictable offense? #BlackLivesMatter

Record producer Andre Perry
Saddened by the fact that I have a son that I can't fully protect from the authorities. Hell, I can't protect myself. #BlackLivesMatter

Attorney Cornell Brooks
The breaking news of no indictment in Eric Garner's death is yet another tragic reason we must prevail in the Journey for Justice.

Tavis Smiley
Illegal chokehold, caught on tape, and still no indictment? Black life has little value. #EricGarner

Benjamin Crump, Esq.
My prayers are with the family of #EricGarner during this most difficult time. #TheSystemIsBroken

Occupy Wall Street
Apparently the penalty for selling untaxed cigarettes in NY is death. #ShutItDown #BlackLivesMatter

TV and radio journalist Luke Russert
Sen. Gillibrand "I’m shocked by this grand jury decision, and will be calling on the Department of Justice to investigate.” #EricGarner

David Joachim, NYT
Maybe if a ham sandwich had killed Eric Garner, things would have turned out differently.

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Day — and still the cop who killed Michael Brown is not indicted and is walking free! We demand justice!