Tarantino joins NYC struggle against police violence

Tarantino joins NYC struggle against police violence

Oscar-winning director Quentin Tarantino joined hundreds of protesters waving signs, shouting through loudspeakers and march along the city's streets on Saturday to protest police violence in the country.

"I am a person with a conscience," said Tarantino, who flew in from California for the event. "And if you think is murder, then you should rise up and stand on it. I'm here to say I'm on the side slain."

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The team gathered in Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan to Washington Square Park before marching about two miles along Sixth Avenue. Protesters walked past a line of policemen blocked one lane for them. As they advanced, people with loudspeakers shouting comrades killed by the stories like the other waved placards with pictures of the dead, mostly young black men, and the dates and places of their deaths.

The event was the last of three demonstrations, group Riseup October was held in New York this week. Speakers at the demonstration said they want the justice of people killed by the police.

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Temaki Williams walked hand in hand with academic and activist Cornel West, one of the organizers. Her son, La Reko Williams was killed by police in 2011 in Charlotte, North Carolina. A federal jury ruled that the police officer Charlotte of Mecklenburg, who do not face criminal charges, the use of force, and awarded her $ 500,000.

However, he said, money is not a substitute for justice.

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"It was not worth the price of my son's life," he said. "It is a wound that will not heal."

The opposition has come a heightened awareness at the national level often contested relations between the police and the people they serve. New York's mayor and police commissioner said that you are serious about establishing sensible reforms to build trust between the police and the community.