--- description: A large crowd of protesters took over a section of Manhattan's West Side Highway and were in a standoff with police Wednesday evening, hours after... title: Protests Erupt After Cop in Eric Garner Chokehold Death Not Indicted image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb417b8689b65cdf9/69876c8e35ba6f6ebdc05bca/rtr4gmo4.jpg?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Protests Erupt After Cop in Eric Garner Chokehold Death Not Indicted by [NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Dec 4, 2014 3:16 AM CUT  People take part in a protest against the grand jury decision on the death of Eric Garner in midtown Manhattan on Dec. 3, 2014 People take part in a protest against the grand jury decision on the death of Eric Garner in midtown Manhattan on Dec. 3, 2014Eric Thayer—Reuters by [NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Dec 4, 2014 3:16 AM CUT A large crowd of protesters took over a section of Manhattan’s West Side Highway and were in a standoff with police Wednesday evening, hours after a grand jury declined to indict a white police officer in the death of an unarmed black man on Staten Island earlier this summer — in a case that was recorded on video and showed the dead man crying “I can’t breathe.” A crowd estimated to number more than 100 was on the highway and was seen being pushed north by a line of police officers wearing helmets and armed with batons at around 9:30 p.m. … [Read the rest of the story from our partners at NBC News](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/protests-erupt-after-cop-eric-garner-chokehold-death-not-indicted-n261136?cid=par-time-article%5F20141204 "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3617399/protests-erupt-after-cop-in-eric-garner-chokehold-death-not-indicted/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3617399/protests-erupt-after-cop-in-eric-garner-chokehold-death-not-indicted/"},"headline":"Protests Erupt After Cop in Eric Garner Chokehold Death Not Indicted","datePublished":"2014-12-04T03:16:40.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T02:33:38.402Z","description":"A large crowd of protesters took over a section of Manhattan's West Side Highway and were in a standoff with police Wednesday evening, hours after...","url":"https://time.com/3617399/protests-erupt-after-cop-in-eric-garner-chokehold-death-not-indicted/","keywords":["Crime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb417b8689b65cdf9/69876c8e35ba6f6ebdc05bca/rtr4gmo4.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"NBC News","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nbc-news/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb417b8689b65cdf9/69876c8e35ba6f6ebdc05bca/rtr4gmo4.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"People take part in a protest against the grand jury decision on the death of Eric Garner in midtown Manhattan in New York","caption":"People take part in a protest against the grand jury decision on the death of Eric Garner in midtown Manhattan in New York","creditText":"Eric Thayer—Reuters","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/3617399/protests-erupt-after-cop-in-eric-garner-chokehold-death-not-indicted/","name":"Protests Erupt After Cop in Eric Garner Chokehold Death Not Indicted"}}]}] ```