NY police arrest 50 people in protests over shooting verdict

Comments | AFP, May, 2008

NEW YORK (AFP) — More than 50 people were arrested in New York Wednesday, police said, after city-wide protests against last month's acquittal of three policemen who killed a unarmed black man on his stag night.

"Over 50 were arrested," a police spokeswoman said, adding that US civil rights activist Al Sharpton was among those held. She said there were "no reports of violence or wounded."

Several hundred people gathered in front of the police headquarters in southern Manhattan waving banners saying: "No justice, no peace," and "This whole damn system is guilty."

Other protests took place in Harlem, near Central Park and in Brooklyn, and demonstrators blocked traffic on the Queensboro, Triborough and Brooklyn bridges, organizers said.

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