NY police arrest 200 people in protests over shooting verdict

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NEW YORK (AFP) — Some 200 people were arrested in New York Wednesday, police said, after city-wide protests against last month's acquittal of three policemen who killed an unarmed black man on his stag night.

"About 200 people were detained. All of them have been released now," a police spokesman said, adding that there were no reports of violence or people wounded during the demonstrations, staged at various locations in the city.

Civil rights activist Al Sharpton was among those held, a police spokeswoman indicated earlier.

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

Other protests took place in Harlem, near...