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.

A man holds a sign at a gathering in New York's Union Square, awaiting news on the Ferguson grand jury on Nov. 24, 2014.

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Upon hearing reports that Ferguson, Mo., police officer Darren Wilson had not been indicted, crowds in New York began the two-mile march to Times Square, shutting down traffic along the way.

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Marchers walk past a U.S. armed forces recruiting station in Times Square on Nov. 24, 2014.

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A protestor outside the New York Public Library on Dec. 4, 2014 raises his hands, a reference to contested reports that Michael Brown had his hands up when he was shot by police in Ferguson, Mo.

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Though the marches were largely unauthorized, police initially made few arrests. Here officers walk alongside the march on Dec. 4, 2014.

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An NYPD officer walks on the edge of the march on Dec. 4, 2014.

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A protestor walks down 42nd Street in Manhattan on Dec. 4, 2014.

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