Die-in, Washington DC. Photo: Susan Melkisethian, flickr

Media roundup – protests across America against police racism

Protests are taking place in cities and colleges across the US – and striking fast food workers are linking the fight against police racism with their struggle for a living wage. We’ve brought together pictures from dozens of marches and die-ins, and more protests are planned for the next few days.

Protests have continued across the US – and are continuing into next week – against police violence against black Americans, and the justice system’s failure to hold police to account. Last Wednesday, it was announced that the cop who choked Eric Garner to death in New York will not face charges. On 24 November we had learned that Darren Wilson, who shot Michael Brown, will not be indicted. Only two days before that, twelve-year-old Tamir Rice was shot dead by a cop in Cleveland Ohio. On Saturday 6 December the funeral took place of Akai Gurley, described by the New York police commissioner as a “total innocent” after he was shot by an inexperienced cop in a Brooklyn stairwell.

Here we include photos from some of the protests. There have been demonstrations and die-ins in city centres and on college campuses. The protests have also linked up with strikes on Thursday by fast food and other retail workers, many of them people of colour, for whom the struggle to win decent pay and the struggle against police racism are parts of the same fight for equality and respect.

Street Protests

Wednesday: vigil outside Baltimore police department. Photo by SocialJusticeSeeker812, flickr

Thursday: protesters close Interstate 35, Minneapolis. Photo by Fibonacci Blue, flickr

Thursday: die-in on the Boston subway

Thursday: protest in Las Vegas. Photo by Beverly Yuen Thompson, flickr

Thursday: protesters block traffic in New York

Thursday: New York protesters link arms as they march

Friday: thousands protest in Boston

Friday: die-in, Washington DC

Friday: march in Cleveland, Ohio

Friday: die-in in Miami, Florida

Friday: protesters block the highway in Florida

Friday: die-in in Pittsburgh

Saturday: die-in on the highway in Atlanta

Saturday: protesters face cops in Berkeley, California

Die-Ins

Thursday: University of Southern California. Photo by Neon Tommy, flickr

Thursday: Grand Central Station, New York City

Thursday: Temple University, Philadelphia

Thursday: University of Texas at Austin

Friday: die-in and protest at Brooklyn Technical High School

Friday: Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York

Friday: Colombia University, New York City

Friday: Harvard University

Friday: University of Alabama

Friday: inside Macy’s department store, New York City

Friday: University of Florida

Friday: University of Oregon

Duke University, North Carolina

College library die-in by students in Williamsburg, Virginia

Saturday: Houston Galleria. Photo by Elizabeth Brossa, flickr

Fast Food and Other Retail Workers

Fast food workers protest in New Orleans – fighting for $15 an hour, and with their hands up

Die-in at St. Louis convenience store