Activists protest NYPD shooting of groom
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Thousands of protesters counted in unison to 50 to mark the number of shots police fired in the wedding day death of a groom as they marched Saturday along Fifth Avenue on one of the busiest shopping days of the year.
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Human rights advocates, journalists and politicians marched Thursday to the apartment building where journalist Anna Politkovskaya was gunned down to commemorate her birthday and show their skepticism over government claims about who was behind her killing.
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Police smashed the camera of a local New York television crew at an angry demonstration against Republicans holding their national convention nearby, an AFP correspondent on the scene said.
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Demonstrators take to the streets of New York Monday, raising a ruckus about the Republicans who have come to town for the week.
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In a nine-hour span, police fatally shot a man armed with a knife and critically wounded an ax-wielding teenager, drawing fresh complaints from civil-rights activists in a city already troubled by a rash of officer shootings.
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New York Police arrested more than 900 people late on Tuesday as anti-Bush activists blocked traffic, staged anti-war protests and harassed Republican delegates on the second day of a convention to nominate President Bush to a second term.
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Anti-globalization activists organizing a protest Friday against a weekend visit by US Secretary of State Colin Powell said they would oppose any police attempt to prevent them from marching on the American embassy.
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Activists in Arnold Schwarzenegger's country of birth demonstrated outside the U.S. Embassy in Vienna on Wednesday to protest the California governor's decision to allow the state's first execution in three years.
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Political standoff erupts into violence as police use live rounds and teargas to snuff out protest plans
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Civil rights advocates angry over the death of a student hit by a pepper-spray pellet are seeking at least a temporary ban on the Boston Police Department's use of so-called "less-lethal" weapons to control crowds.
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District attorney investigators began questioning two survivors of a deadly police shooting that left one man dead hours before his wedding, and one of the survivors spoke from his hospital bed to call for calm.
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A woman and her fiance were gunned down on a busy Manhattan street in a brazen shooting that investigators believe was committed by the woman's ex-husband, who then turned the gun on himself.
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The man gunned down in a spray of 50 police bullets on his wedding day was buried Saturday as hundreds of angry demonstrators honored him with a moment of silence before going jaw-to-jaw with police in a bitter confrontation outside a Queens precinct house.
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An angry crowd demanded Sunday to know why police officers killed an unarmed man on the day of his wedding, firing dozens of shots that also wounded two of the man's friends. Some called for the ouster of the city's police commissioner.
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Police opened fire early Saturday on a car full of men driving away from a bachelor party at a strip club, killing the groom on his wedding day after an undercover officer was rammed with the car.
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NEW YORK - Thousands of abortion-rights activists marched across the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday, the latest in a growing procession of protests leading up to the Republican National Convention.    Protesters were expected to gather later in the day in Central Park and at the World Trade Center site, where anti-Bush demonstrators planned to ring 2,749 bells - one for each victim of the Sept...
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Hundreds of New Yorkers held a candlelight vigil on Friday at the scene where an off-duty police officer killed an unarmed man in an incident that reignited charges of racism and excessive force among the city's police.