Manhattan Protest March

Michael Brown, an 18-year-old black man, was killed last August by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. Police and eyewitness accounts have been contradictory. On Monday a grand jury decided not to indict Darren Wilson, the police officer, on any criminal charges. Protests in Ferguson began soon after the announcement and they included much unrest and looting on Monday night. Other protests sprang up around the country. On Tuesday this week, a crowd of demonstrators disrupted automobile traffic by walking up the FDR Drive, the major thoroughfare on Manhattan's East side.