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Brian todd has details. >> hands up, don't 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 can't breathe! >> reporter: now in new york, the nation's 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 tactical training and the proper use of force but also problem solving, learning how to talk thro...

Commissioner has announced plans to retrain all of the city's 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 can't breathe! >> reporter: a national outcry over police tactics and an appeal to prevent this from happening again. >> i can't breathe. i can't breathe. i can't breathe. >> now in new york, the nation's largest police force reeling from the chokehold case is retraining 22,000 officers, supervisors and executives. each gets a three-day course, not j...

>> 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. you'll 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 let's bring in cristina alechi in new york. you got me? okay, we don't have cristina there. i want to talk about the legal angle of the affairs.

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? >> it's really interesting because the stores didn't 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 we're reporting that the protesters are fairly peaceful. and they also keep moving. they weren't in the stores very long. because you know...

Like. that was the rallying cry aimed at protesters last night, as demonstrators took to at least 17 cities. >> we're 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 protesters flooded the interstates. >> protesters in new york stormed into popular stores and stage sta...