People hold candles while they take part in a rally to call for action in response to police violence, at the steps of City Hall in New York, December 12, 2014. Photo: Reuters
Demonstrators are staging mass "whistle-blowing" rallies at NYPD police stations throughout New York tonight, kicking off a second weekend of protests against the killing of Eric Garner.
The unarmed black father was killed by a white NYPD officer. The officer was not charged with a crime.
In Harlem, about three dozen protesters marched past public housing projects where they say police abuse is particularly pervasive before rallying outside a local police station house. There, the crowd blew metal whistles, piercing the cold air with the high-pitch shrill.
"We are here because out of this precinct, regularly, routinely, they abuse people in these housing projects," organizer Kevin Lee, 59, told the throng of protesters.
The idea was to "literally blow the whistle on killer cops … in the communities most affected by police brutality," according to a statement by Stop Mass Incarceration Network, which organized similar protests in the boroughs of Bronx and Queens to be held on Friday.
People march around Police headquarters while they call for action in response to police violence, in New York, December 12, 2014. Photo: Reuters/Eduardo Munoz
"New York protesters 'blow the whistle' at police stations" [reuters.com]
