Unarmed black man in ferguson, missouri, there is a similar script to the events that played out recently in ferguson a grand jury in Staten Island section of new york city decided not to indict new York Police Officer Daniel Pantaleo in the choking death of eric garner. Garner died after panaleo and other plains clothes Police Officers attempted to arrest him on the selling of a loose cigarettes on the street. Unlike ferguson, the protests in new york from peaceful and local. New yorkers have been following the garner case since his death in july, a week after a similar grand jury decision in missouri, and the violence sparked there, its clear that eric garner will signal something bigger to most americans. That yes, sir were devoting the show to the garner case. Mike viqueira joins us from washington where he heard that the attorney general is announcing an investigation into this death. Michael, what do you know . Reporter well, thats right, Al Jazeera America has confirmed that the
Unarmed black man in ferguson, missouri, there is a similar script to the events that played out recently in ferguson a grand jury in Staten Island section of new york city decided not to indict new York Police Officer Daniel Pantaleo in the choking death of eric garner. Garner died after panaleo and other plains clothes Police Officers attempted to arrest him on the selling of a loose cigarettes on the street. Unlike ferguson, the protests in new york from peaceful and local. New yorkers have been following the garner case since his death in july, a week after a similar grand jury decision in missouri, and the violence sparked there, its clear that eric garner will signal something bigger to most americans. That yes, sir were devoting the show to the garner case. Mike viqueira joins us from washington where he heard that the attorney general is announcing an investigation into this death. Michael, what do you know . Reporter well, thats right, Al Jazeera America has confirmed that the
The changes in ukraine and the question in the crimea. I would stress if all this were not so, then they would have thought of some other reason to hold back the growing strength of russia. Its been the plight. Several people were killed. Separatists in chechnya have been waging a war against moscow for 20 years. Lets go live to peter who is live in moscow. Peter, we know very little of what happening during putins speech there. What were you hearing while you were there. The capitol looked like a war zone last night. We see from those pictures. The building was surrounded by chechnya security forces. We understand that the militants are hold up with an exchange of power with policepatrol check points that left three to five police dead. It seems obvious that this was timed to steal the headlines from president putins address to the kremlin to parliament at the kremlin this morning. This is what the president had to say about the chechnya. We remember well about who and how in the 1990
We begin with a night of protests in new york. Angry demonstrators chanted, blocked major thoroughfares that new yorkers reacted to the news that a grand jury did not indictment a Police Officer in the chokehold death of eric gardner. Paul beban joins us at new york time square. Paul . Reporter thats right, john. We are about two to three blocks west of times square, the corner of 10th avenue and 42nd street. A large group of protesters just crossed on their way back to time square. They have been disrupting traffic around this area. We followed them out of times square a little while ago, about 150 to 200 people who laid down in the middle of the intersection, right in front of the Port Authority bus terminal right in the heart of times square, blocked traffic for three to four minutes. We jumped out of the vehicle, followed them west down 42nd street. I think they went to the west side highway where there is another group of large protesters far arer uptown disrupting traffic. It loo
Airbags can explode and send metal flying. A grand jury decision not to indict a white Police Officer in the death of an unarmed black man has yielded protests tonight. Youre looking at live pictures from time square. Lets roll them in. New york city. 43yearold eric garner died after an officer put him in a choke hold after he was arrested in Staten Island. New yorks mayor just moments ago vowed to make changes to the citys police force. Lets begin with paul beban. Paul, youre at the site of the incident. What more can you tell us . Set the scene for us. Well, good evening, its kind of a chilly, blustery, slightly rainy evening out here. Very quite scene. The confrontational of no justice, no peace. Its a neighborhood gathering here, and not important to know not a heavy Police Presence. Just now we had a Police Cruiser pull up. But for the most part the Police Presence has been very stand off. People are just sort of milling around, getting together, talking in small groups. Again, th