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The Unprecedented Scale of the #BlackLivesMatter Protests
The past weeks have seen the largest number of Americans taking to the streets since the Occupy and Iraq War protests. But what really sets these ongoing actions apart is that they are in so many cities—and spread out across them.
Demonstrators took to New York streets for a second night of protests this past Thursday after a grand jury decided that Wednesday not to indict a New York Police Department officer for the choking death of Eric Garner in Staten Island.
The protests weren't isolated to New York alone. Just as protesters took to major highways across America late in November following the grand jury decision in Ferguson, thousands of people once again shut down roads in Chicago, Atlanta, and Boston. The demonstrations reached smaller cities, too, including Albany, Savannah, Indianapolis, Wilmington, Asheville, and many more.