--- title: Police Brutality Brings Thousands Out to Marches Nationwide description: In Washington, DC, New York City and around the country, Americans staged protests over the deaths of unarmed citizens by police canonical: https://time.com/3632777/police-brutality-protest-washington/ author: Denver Nicks article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-12-13T20:13:49.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-13T21:45:46.000Z article:section: U.S. og:title: Police Brutality Brings Thousands Out to Marches Nationwide og:description: In Washington, DC, New York City and around the country, Americans staged protests over the deaths of unarmed citizens by police og:url: https://time.com/3632777/police-brutality-protest-washington/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt698dab4d99d25f37/69876e978e060103fb459346/eric-ganer-michael-brown-protests.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Thousands of protesters participate in the 'Justice For All' march against police violence on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington on Dec. 13, 2014. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Police Brutality Brings Thousands Out to Marches Nationwide twitter:description: In Washington, DC, New York City and around the country, Americans staged protests over the deaths of unarmed citizens by police twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt698dab4d99d25f37/69876e978e060103fb459346/eric-ganer-michael-brown-protests.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Thousands Rally Against Police Brutality in Washington and New York City > Sponsored content. 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Thousands of protesters participate in the 'Justice For All' march against police violence on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington on Dec. 13, 2014.Bill Clark—CQ Roll Call/Getty Images by [Denver Nicks](https://time.com/author/denver-nicks/) and [Charlotte Alter](https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/) Updated: Dec 13, 2023 9:45 PM UTCPublished: Dec 13, 2014 8:13 PM UTC Demonstrators numbering in the tens of thousands marched on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. and in New York City on Saturday, as well as other cities across the U.S., to protest the killings of unarmed black men by police officers. In the nation’s capital, the families of black men killed by police, including relatives of Staten Island resident Eric Garner, Ferguson, Mo. teenager Michael Brown, and Cleveland, Ohio 12-year-0ld Tamir Rice and others, joined civil rights groups and other demonstrators at the Justice For All march. The marchers called for an end to police killings and for law enforcement who kill unarmed citizens to be held to account for their actions. In New York City, protestors held signs featuring the words “I am Eric Garner” and chanted what has become a rallying cry of the movement to end police killings of unarmed black men: “Hands up/Don’t shoot.” Andre Irving, 31 and black, attended the rally with his father Mark Irving, 57\. “I’m worried for my safety, the safety of my family, my friends, my neighbors,” he told TIME. “Can I go to the store and walk home without being killed?” ### See Thousands Across The Nation Protest Police Brutality  Thousands of people gather at Washington Square to march through Manhattan to protest police violence on Dec. 13, 2014 in New York City. Cem Ozdel—Anadolu Agency/Getty Images  Demonstrators chant at Freedom Plaza in Washington on Dec. 13, 2014. Jose Luis Magana—AP  Thousands of protestors demonstrate against police brutality in New York City as part of the Millions March on Dec. 13, 2014. Andrew Hinderaker  Thousands of protestors demonstrate against police brutality in New York City as part of the Millions March on Dec. 13, 2014. Andrew Hinderaker  People march in the National March Against Police Violence on Dec. 13, 2014 in New York City. Andrew Burton—Getty Images  Thousands take part in the "Justice for All" march and rally down Pennsylvania Avenue to the U.S. Capitol in Washington D.C. on Dec. 13, 2014. Saul Loeb—AFP/Getty Images  People shout slogans against police as they take part in a march against police violence in New York City on Dec. 13, 2014. Eduardo Munoz—Reuters  Young boys watch from a seat in a charter bus as demonstrators march along Michigan Avenue to protest police brutality on Dec. 13, 2014 in Chicago. Scott Olson—Getty Images  Thousands of protestors demonstrate against police brutality in new York City on Dec. 13, 2014. John Minchillo—AP  A police officer looks into the crowd, after he was hit on the leg with paint thrown by protesters during an evening demonstration against police violence in Oakland, Calif. on Dec. 13, 2014. Stephen Lam—Reuters  Film director Spike Lee, and others, march on Pennsylvania Avenue toward Capitol Hill in Washington, on Dec. 13, 2014. Jose Luis Magana—AP  Lesley McSpadden, mother of unarmed teenager Michael Brown, shot and killed in Ferguson, Mo., in August, helps lead the march on Dec. 13, 2014 in Washington D.C. Chip Somodevilla—Getty Images  A man holds up a ''Jail Killer Cops' sign during a 'Millions March' demonstration in Oakland, Calif. on Dec. 13, 2014. Elijah Nouvelage—Getty Images  People march in the National March Against Police Violence on Dec. 13, 2014 in New York City. Andrew Burton—Getty Images  Thousands of protestors demonstrate against police brutality in New York City as part of the Millions March on Dec. 13, 2014. Andrew Hinderaker Eva Osborne, 8, wore a pin featuring the words “I can’t breathe,” some of the last words Eric Garner spoke before he dies in a video of his arrest, and a phrase that has also been used as a rallying call. “I have a black brother and a black dad,” she said. Her brother is five, her father 43, the same age as Eric Garner. “When my brother grows up, he might be treated the same way.” Police declined to estimate the size of the ground in Washington, [the New York _Times_ reports](http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/14/us/thousands-march-in-washington-to-protest-deaths-by-police.html?%5Fr=0), but media estimates place the size of the crowd in the tens of thousands. Police in New York City estimated the crowd size at roughly 12,000\. The protests mark a new level of civil action in weeks of sometimes violent unrest around the country, as citizens erupted in mass outrage after no charges were brought against police officers responsible for killing Brown, an unarmed teenager shot by police in Ferguson, and Garner, an unarmed Staten Island man who died after being aggressively subdued by police during his arrest for illegally selling cigarettes on the street. The Justice For All march in Washington was spearheaded by the National Action Network led by Al Sharpton. Some demonstrators, expressing disdain at those they considered celebrity protestors, disrupted the proceedings at a pre-march rally, The Washington _Post_ [reports](http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/sharpton-to-lead-justice-for-all-march-in-dc/2014/12/13/36ce8a68-824f-11e4-9f38-95a187e4c1f7%5Fstory.html). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3632777/police-brutality-protest-washington/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3632777/police-brutality-protest-washington/"},"headline":"Thousands Rally Against Police Brutality in Washington and New York City","datePublished":"2014-12-13T20:13:49.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-13T21:45:46.000Z","description":"In Washington, DC, New York City and around the country, Americans staged protests over the deaths of unarmed citizens by police","url":"https://time.com/3632777/police-brutality-protest-washington/","keywords":["Crime","protest","police","Law Enforcement","justice","Police Brutality","Eric Garner","Michael Brown"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt698dab4d99d25f37/69876e978e060103fb459346/eric-ganer-michael-brown-protests.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Denver Nicks","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/denver-nicks/"},{"@type":"Person","name":"Charlotte Alter","jobTitle":"Senior Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt698dab4d99d25f37/69876e978e060103fb459346/eric-ganer-michael-brown-protests.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Thousands of protesters participate in the 'Justice For All' march against police violence on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington on Dec. 13, 2014.","caption":"Thousands of protesters participate in the 'Justice For All' march against police violence on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington on Dec. 13, 2014.","creditText":"Bill Clark—CQ Roll Call/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3632777/police-brutality-protest-washington/","name":"Thousands Rally Against Police Brutality in Washington and New York City"}}]}] ```