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Thousands Take to Streets across US Protesting Police Brutality

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A wave of peaceful protests, aimed at denouncing police violence, swept across the US, with the number of protesters peaking in Los Angeles, where there were over 5,000 in the Millions March for First Amendment Rights.
“Hands up, don’t shoot”, “Black lives matter” and “No justice, no peace,” – these mottos united demonstrations that took place in several major American cities – Los Angeles, New York and Ferguson, where there have been several cases of fatal shooting by the police, RT reported.

The protesters were calling for justice for those killed by police – Michael Brown (Ferguson) and Eric Garner (New York), as well as Ezell Ford and Omar Abrego (both from Los Angeles) among them.

“Every 28 hours a person is killed in the United States by a police officer or authority figure or vigilante, and nothing stops for them,” Kirbie Joseph, an organizer of the march in New York, said. “Everything goes business as usual, and so we can’t stop.”

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