NYC braced for more protests over police violence after West Coast clashes | Reuters.
(Reuters) – A fifth day of nationwide protests against police violence was set to begin on Sunday after overnight clashes in two West Coast cities as New York’s police commissioner said an internal investigation into a chokehold death could last four months.
After a relatively calm night in New York City, 13 people were arrested overnight in angry demonstrations in Seattle, where crowds threw rocks and attacked police, and in the California university town of Berkeley, where windows were smashed, stores looted and tear gas fired at protesters.
Protests were planned on Sunday in dozens of cities across the country, including New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Miami and Minneapolis.
Nightly demonstrations, which were mostly peaceful until the unrest on the West Coast, have followed a New York grand jury’s decision not to indict a white police officer who put an unarmed black man in a banned chokehold that killed him.
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