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NYC mayor warns violence against police intolerable

Xinhua, April 15, 2015 Adjust font size:

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said violence against the police is unacceptable after two police officers were attacked late Tuesday.

Demonstrators and police officers clashed on the streets of Brooklyn Tuesday night, in a protest against acts of police brutality throughout the country.

They started in Union Square and marched down Broadway before making their way to the Brooklyn Bridge during evening rush hour.

"These attacks will be thoroughly investigated, and we will urge the full prosecution of the perpetrators," the mayor said in a statement.

Reports said scuffles occurred between police officers and demonstrators, who reportedly threw objects at officers. Witnesses on social media said that the protesters broke through police barricades, with some jumping onto the traffic lanes.

"Reports this evening that two of our NYPD (New York City Police Department) officers were assaulted by protesters remind us that here in New York City, violence or threats of violence against the police are unacceptable and will absolutely not be tolerated," de Blasio said.

"Any other person who might use the right to peaceful protest as cover to initiate violence, cause mayhem or incite disorder - whether against the police, the people or property of our great City - should consider themselves on notice that New York City will not stand for it," he said.

At the same time, the organizer of the protest, The Stop Mass Incarceration Network, said on its website that some of its major leaders have been recently arrested.

The organization aims to stop the injustice of mass incarceration and police brutality, and the racially biased policies and practices, its website said.

A police spokesman confirmed to local media that several people had been arrested, but said that he could not provide a number.

"It is an outrage that business as usual in this country means cops getting away with killing our people, day after day, and those who insist that this must stop are being targeted!" the organization said.

The group says they want to draw attention to more recent cases of police brutality, including the deadly shooting of an unarmed black man by a white police officer in South Carolina, and the death of Eric Garner, who died after being placed in a chokehold that caused him to suffer neck and chest compressions during his arrest in July 2014. Endi