(NBC News) Protesters shut down major highways in New York and Chicago, and demonstrations were held in other cities Thursday as outrage against a grand jury’s decision not to indict a white police officer in the death of an unarmed black man continued to be felt on city streets across the nation.
Thousands of protesters, chanting “hands up, don’t shoot,” and “shut the whole system down,” marched across the Brooklyn Bridge, shut down parts of the West Side Highway, and blocked traffic in demonstrations all over Manhattan. In Chicago, protesters walked onto the Dan Ryan Expressway and brought traffic to a halt. And in Washington, D.C, a crowd staged a “die-in” a block from the National Christmas Tree lighting ceremony near the White House.
