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'No Justice, No Peace' Protests Resume in NYC for 4th Day

Associated Press

   NEW YORK - New York City officials were looking for a peaceful way
   forward as the city entered a fourth day of protests against police
   brutality that have left police cars burned and led to the arrest of
   hundreds of people.

   Mayor Bill de Blasio said he had no plans to impose a curfew Sunday,
   unlike other major U.S. cities, and smaller cities throughout the
   state.

   De Blasio said city police showed "tremendous restraint overall" during
   the weekend's protests, but promised an investigation of video showing
   two police cruisers lurching into a crowd of demonstrators on a
   Brooklyn street. He was appointing two city officials to conduct an
   independent review of how the protests unfolded and how they were
   handled by the police.

   "We all better get back to the humanity here," de Blasio said at a
   Sunday morning briefing. "The protesters are human beings. They need to
   be treated with tremendous respect. The police officers are human
   beings. They need to be treated with tremendous respect."

   Hours after he spoke, demonstrations resumed. Hundreds of people
   gathered on a plaza in downtown Brooklyn, chanting "No justice, no
   peace," and "Black lives matter," while making occasional insulting
   hand gestures at a line of police officers protecting the arena where
   the NBA's Nets play. Marchers chanted "Hands up, don't shoot" -- a
   rallying cry that originated from the August 2014 shooting of Michael
   Brown in Ferguson, Missouri -- during a separate rally in Queens.

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