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Blocking traffic here to make it hard for people to get to the wizards' game and hard to get home. the goal is to disrupt in order to bring attention to their cause, which is any racial injustice, ending racial profiling. they are upset that we are talking, they want this to be a moment of silence. >> you are not respecting the moment of silence that we have set for all the victims of police brutality in violation of their human rights. we asked for a moment of silence, and you can't even give us that? >> athena, i'm going to give them a moment of silence. we'll come back to you. >> chief bank...

Balanced in our court of law. >> is this a nationwide problem? we've seen a problem obviously in ferguson and in new york city and staten island, one of the boroughs in new york city. but are there similar problems? you monitor this all over the country elsewhere. >> absolutely. whether you're talking about ohio, missouri, atlanta, georgia, chicago, illinois, los angeles, california, it's a problem regardless of where you go in the country and it has to be fixed nationwide. >> take a look at this, this is boston, massachusetts. these are live pictures coming in from our affiliate there. you se...

Issue. this is a national crisis. >> reporter: in chicago, protesters clashed with police after shutting down a major thoroughfare and in d.c., protesters staged a die-in. >> reporter: all of this over the failure to indict officer pantaleo over the death of eric garner. the grand jury sat for nine weeks hearing from a total of 50 witnesses. 22 civilians, also police personnel. admitted into evidence, records regarding nypd policies and procedures, garner's medical records and photographs of the scene. but the details of that evidence remain sealed. >> what video was they watching? because the...

Pulsed throughout the city streets for more than nine hours. most chanting garner's last words. >> i can't breathe. >> reporter: before dieing on this staten island street. >> i can't breathe. i can't breathe. >> reporter: police, some in riot gear, blocking intersections as protesters began shutting down the city's most iconic landmarks. stopping the flow of traffic into and out of the island of manhattan for hours. some lying down right in the middle of the road, the same inside grand central station. >> i can't breathe. >> reporter: where other protesters staged a massive die-in as evening ...

Officials and even nypd brass, but it infuriated many african-americans. some gathered just steps away from where the fatal confrontation took place. >> they didn't indict him? why? where is the justice at? >> anybody with eyes can see what happened. >> reporter: while there was anger, so far, no violence. >> he shouldn't have been killed in that way. he shouldn't have been killed in any way. he should be here celebrating christmas and thanksgiving and everything else with his children and his grandchildren. and he can't. why? because a cop did wrong. >> reporter: police around the city were o...