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NEW YORK, July 10, (APP/AFP) – Several
hundred demonstrators marched peacefully in New York City late
Saturday for the third consecutive night to protest police
abuses against black people.
The protests follow the death of two African-American men
shot dead by white police officers this week — their
dying moments captured in shocking video footage that went
viral online.
However after a black extremist shot dead five police officers
at a peaceful protest Thursday in Dallas, many activists
wanted to emphasize that they were against all types of violence.
At least one demonstrator thanked police officers escorting
the New York march.
Some in the crowd held up banners bearing the names of
Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, the two men whose deaths,
in Louisiana and Minnesota, triggered the
latest protests.
“Who’s next?” read one sign. “Beware racism,”
read another.
Protesters also remembered fellow New Yorker Delrawn
Small, 37, killed on July 4 by an off-duty police officer in
a road-rage confrontation. Both the victim and the shooter were
black men.
Video obtained by the New York Post on Saturday showed the
moment the off-duty officer, identified as Wayne Isaacs, fired
two shots through his car window at Small, who staggers out,
collapses and dies in the street.
The police department and the attorney general are
investigating the shooting.
The victim’s 22 year-old nephew, Zayanahla Vines, was at
the Saturday demo and urged the crowd to march in silence.
Some demonstrators, however, could not refrain from
the familiar chant, “No justice, no peace!”
Vines said he was shocked by the video. “I broke down,
I couldn’t stop crying,” he told the crowd.
But he said “this not about me, it is about us as people, it
is about black people in America… it needs to stop, something
needs to change. We are all here dying from the police.”