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They want law enforcement and the justice system to treat everyone equally. i spoke to a woman who arrived here, was riding the bus and saw this protest happening. she got off the bus and said she had to join. she said as a young black woman she can relate to the victimization of young black men. she says too often people in the black community said dont make noise, dont rock the boat. she said its time to make noise to make a change. shes plaid people are out here take thing action. she believe...

They are doing something a little bit differently than they did yesterday. yesterday we noticed they were trying to block the streets, block the roadways. today, theyre walking through the streets, trying to basically take upmost of the sidewalks. and i want you to take a look and listen to what theyre saying. >> dont shoot! hands up, dont shoot! >> reporter: thats what youre hearing in all the other cities across the u.s. the message is the same, they want to have a dialogue for the people of t...

Number. but thousands of people moving up, not on the sidewalks, moving up on the street amidst traffic heading toward that line of police officers which is where our deborah feyerick has been. again, this is, as experiences of new york city police department, this city has not seen anything like this. certainly as far back as i can remember and ive lived here my entire life. its an extraordinary scene to see a city like this. the major arteries of the city, the brooklyn bridge. the west side hi...

In the nations capital, washington, d.c., right outside verizon center where the washington wizards are supposed to be playing in about 30 minutes or so. people are protesting the grand jury decision in new york city. lets listen in now to hear what theyre saying. >> shut it down! shut it down! >> what do we want? >> justice! >> when do we want it? >> now! >> lets go to chicago right now with cnns kyung lah. demonstrators pretty angry over there. theyren to the march in chicago, right? >> report...

On to the sidewalks and then police formed barricades, blocked the protesters and divided the groups up. so nobody knew where to go. this particular group of protesters began walking back down towards seventh avenue. they were promptly arrested and told that they were in the street and they were told that they were supposed to be on the sidewalk so they are now arrested. we are wait iing for a head cou, but the police showing no patience tonight on this second night of protests. christine? >> de...

Its very disruptive. its crazy out in the streets, but its all peaceful. its all calm. and again, the police arent confronting anyone. theyre just letting them walk through here. and theyre blocking traffic. >> ron allen live in the streets of new york city tonight. as he said, a peaceful but disruptive, which has been the watch-word for the protests tonight. peaceful but disruptive. organic. all over the place. they blocked down numerous streets. theres been about 30 arrests. there has been no ...

Psychedelic mushrooms. >> he gave eli and i the bag and said, here you go. have fun. we just kind of started taking bites out of it and just eating it. it tasted just like chocolate, nothing bad, no chemical taste or anything. just chocolate and ended up splitting the bag. it was nothing like anything ive had before. i was kind of scared but i was like, reassuring myself and like subconscious, its just mushrooms. its just mushrooms. >> it wasnt just psychedelic mushrooms. it was something much w...

>> reporter: hi, wolf. we started at times square where we had about 200 protesters. a crowd was joined by another group which doubled the size, and now you can see, after staying in times square and chanting and protesting there for a while, they have begun marching north. we know this is the general direction towards where that rockefeller tree lighting is supposed to happen tonight. people have been chanting, shut it down, shut it down! talking about the tree lighting. but at the same time, i...

I see these guys walking down the street. rasheed wouldve rolled up and said, hey, guys, we have sidewalks on either side of the street. will you guys, please, get on the sidewalk? what are you doing? thats how i would have approached it. and the difference is, it was coming from a black officer that they rarely see. someone who theyre connected with. so their response to me may have been differently. it may have been -- may have. and so just that may have, thats reasonable doubt. we have to put...

Everything else, entertainment shows. we dont come together over the season finale of m.a.s.h. any more. members of congress dont have discussions. sports is where we all come together and if thats where we have to have discussion on race an policing then thats where it has to happen. >> if they are engaged the pendulum is swinging back that way. thank you so much. we mentioned some of those walkouts here. we have jason carroll on phone with me in the thick of things in new york. jason carroll...