Protests against police violence slow in New York, flare in Berkeley

ALJAZEEZRA Protests sparked by a series of deaths of unarmed black men at the hands of white officers continued for a fourth

A fourth night of demonstrations against police violence got off to a slow start on a rain-soaked Saturday in New York, after mourners held a funeral for an unarmed black man shot dead by a white police officer in the stairwell of a Brooklyn apartment building.

But protesters in Berkeley, California clashed with police, hurling objects and smashing store windows on Saturday night… (more)

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