Black Lives:
The twin grand-jury decisions not to indict white officers in the killings of two black men -- Michael Brown in Missouri and Eric Garner in New York -- set off weeks of protests around the nation at the end of 2014. In New York, protestors shut down major thoroughfares in an unauthorized march to Times Square after a grand jury in Ferguson, Mo., declined to indict police officer Darren Wilson, who shot the unarmed Brown in August. A week later, a New York grand jury brought no charges against officer Daniel Pantaleo for wrapping his arm around Garner's neck while arresting him for selling loose cigarettes. Garner, who reportedly told Pantaleo, "I can't breathe," died while being taken into custody.