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ellenrr

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Sun Dec 28, 2014, 09:14 AM Dec 2014

Police protesters turn backs on NYPD, copying cops' message to mayor

12/27-
As thousands gathered in New York Saturday to remember a New York Police Department officer who was murdered execution-style with his partner on Dec. 20, police brutality protesters continued to rally in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago.

Protesters who gathered at the NYPD's 75th precinct office to condemn the November shooting death of Akai Gurley, an unarmed black men who was killed by a rookie NYPD officer in a dark public housing stairwell, turned their backs on officers standing behind a metal barricade, symbolizing a lack of trust.

http://mashable.com/2014/12/27/protests-continue-ramos-funeral/

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Police protesters turn backs on NYPD, copying cops' message to mayor (Original Post) ellenrr Dec 2014 OP
If an eye for a eye makes the whole world go blind, turning your back makes it go dumb. Talk. Fred Sanders Dec 2014 #1
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