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Protest outside NY royal venue
劍橋公爵夫婦觀看比賽 紐約人場外抗議
This was one of the latest protests over the choke hold death of a man in New York by a police officer. The demonstration happened outside the venue where the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were watching a basketball game. The demonstrators staged a 'die-in' near the Barclays Center. About 300 broke through police lines at the entrance to the Atlantic Terminal Mall. The protests erupted over a decision not to indict anyone over the death of Eric Garner when police put him in a banned choke hold. (SOUNDBITE) (English) DAMON DAVIS, PROTESTER, SAYING:
"I'm out here in solidarity with these people, for their struggle. It's the same as it is in St. Louis." (SOUNDBITE) (English) GILBERT ROSA,PROTESTER, SAYING: "We tried to do it through legal channels and the legal channels are totally stacked against us. The legal channels are fixed." (SOUNDBITE) (English) JAMES WHITE, PROTESTER, SAYING: "I've been arrested for absolutely no reason and when asking officers of the law why it is they were doing what they were doing they simply put me in handcuffs." Inside the building six basketball players added their voices to the growing protests. They wore t-shirts emblazoned with Garner's final words in the pre-match warm-up for the Cleveland Cavaliers game against Brooklyn Nets The decision in the Garner case came just a week after a grand jury cleared another white officer who shot dead an unarmed Black-American teenager in Missouri.
