on december 8th cleveland s lebron james wore this shirt before the brooklyn nets game. showing his solidarity with new york city protesters after the decision of the staten island grand jury not to indict anyone in the death of erin garner and jay-z helped deliver the t-shirts to the nets game. on december 14th andrew hawkins wore this showing his support for the families of tamir rice and john crawford ii but these instances have left some wondering how recording artists are participating in the dialogue. quest questlove addressed this in an interview with billboard, referring to the backlash the dixie chicks received in 2003 after saying they were ashamed president bush was from texas.
post protest. can we count on any federal charges? something people are counting on? i don t believe there will be federal charges in this case because of the facts and circumstances. we do welcome the fact there will be an open discussion about the, the death of michael brown. what happened in ferguson. that will hopefully broaden the the understanding from those who don t really believe that racism takes place in the criminal justice system. final word to you. you were with protesters in ferguson. how disappointed. will people be if there are no charges in the trayvon martin case, no charges in the michael brown case, and no charges from the feds in eric garner case. sorry, erin, repeat your question. how devastated will people people if there are no charges in any of the three cases from trayvon martin, martin brown, eric garner? i think people are pretty devastated now.
some of those as the well due to the weather. so it was difficult for officers to got a handle on what was going on. a much different scene in terms of, how we saw the police response here. versus, to what i was listening to, what you saw in chicago. where police were basically not alug plowing protesters to move about. allowed them to move through the city. iconic spots. into stores, macy s. back out of them. for now this particular part of the protest has ended for the evening. erin. jason. thank you very much. want to go off to don lemon. don actually was in midtown, manhattan. moved to within of the main highways runs right up along, the river, the east river. wheree protesters are coming to where you are now, don. it s not clear. we spoke to police officers here on the scene. they say, they re just here waiting. because as we have been telling you all night. at least when i was on earlier. they re not exactly sure where they re going. they just kind of show up.
what protesters refer to as a die-in, the streets in washington, d.c. let s just listen to the sights and listen to the sounds and see the sights right now. the protests around the country have had similar themes and slogans. the prevailing slogan, black lives matter. not everybody thinks race had a role to play. erin garner said what happened to her father was horrible, a nightmare and tragedy but said