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Brian todd has details. >> hands up, dont shoot. >> reporter: thousands protesting in new york, st. louis, d.c. >> no more guns! >> reporter: so-called die-ins in chicago and boston. a national outcry over police tactics and an appeal to prevent this from happening again. >> i cant breathe! >> reporter: now in new york, the nations largest police force reeling from the chokehold case is retraining 22,000 officers, supervisors and executives. each gets a three-day course. not just a refresher on ...

Commissioner has announced plans to retrain all of the citys officers on conflict resolution and the use of force. ryan todd has details. >> reporter: thousands protesting in new york, st. louis, d.c. so-called die-ins in chicago and boston. >> i cant breathe! >> reporter: a national outcry over police tactics and an appeal to prevent this from happening again. >> i cant breathe. i cant breathe. i cant breathe. >> now in new york, the nations largest police force reeling from the chokehold case ...

>> and a lot of these protests were in boston. police say about 1,000 people marched through downtown. look at that. >> similar scene in miami. look at this. youll see traffic backed up. this goes on for miles as the protesters flooded the interstates. >> while demonstrations were peaceful, protesters in new york, they did something different here. they stormed into popular stores in stage die-ins. we do know at least two people were arrested. >> and lets bring in cristina alechi in new york. yo...

And staging die-ins. literally laying down on the floors of these floors. cristina, do we know how do the stores react to that? and how long were they? >> its really interesting because the stores didnt seem to really react at all. as i mentioned before, these stores are really accustomed to seeing large groups of people walking in around the holidays. obviously, they knew they were protesters when they started lying down on the floor. just mentioned that were reporting that the protesters are f...

Like. that was the rallying cry aimed at protesters last night, as demonstrators took to at least 17 cities. >> were talking the northeast to california. protesters angry over the choke hold of eric garner filled the streets to demand justice and law enforcement reform. >> some of the largest protests in boston. take a look at these pictures. police say about a thousand people marched through downtown. >> seen in miami, look at this, you can see traffic here backed up for miles and miles as prot...

Good morning, im michaela pereira. john berman is off today. at this hour, a growing sense that the choke hold death of a staten island man by police is bringing more folks together regardless of their race and the decision not to indict the cop responsible has inspired more protests not just in, no but across the nation. demonstrators marching, staging sit-ins, die-ins, blockades, demanding change in the way police treat minorities. on the heels of ferguson its clear this is more about -- abo...

Protests planned for this evening. police presence starting to be established here. squad cars behind me, police cars down here. we have seen police patrolmen walking up and down the streets. i saw two undercover cops with badges on getting ready to blend into the crowds out here. police forces across the united states gearing up for more protests tonight. this comes as the police force thats at the center of this whole controversy is undergoing major retraining tonight. thousands protesting in ...

Put eric garner in a chokehold. >> the verdict was hard to understand. but i havent seen all the details. but its sad that race continues to play such an emotional, divisive part of life. >> youre looking right now at live pictures out of chicago where protesters are already starting to come together for this third night of demonstrations. if you were working late in manhattan last night and looked down the street, chances are you saw swarmed of protesters. taking away the neon because of the bi...

Staging die-ins where they lay on the ground at clayton, missouri, and a missouri mall intended to disrupt holiday shopping. they did it in seattle as well. that was also the faktic in portland, where police ultimately made arrests and where reverend jesse jackson encouraged the crowd. >> weve seen a mean-spirited backlash in our country that does not represent the best in us. we must fight it in the face of michael brown. >> reporter: portland also produced a warm moment from the demonstrations...

Tom is an organizer with the tampa tea party patriots. good to have you, tom. >> great to be on, neil. thank you. >> neil: all right. so, a lot of congressmen are saying were done with this town hall stuff, its so yesterday. so you are going to hold forums anyway. dont they have to be there? they were there the first time and they chose not to listen to us. the american people spoke resoundedly in one voice saying we dont want the monstrosity of socialized health. >> neil: what are you going to ...