САЩ: Протестиращи блокират улиците в памет на убития Джон Крофърт

Hundreds of people blocked traffic on Flatbush Avenue, one of Brooklyn's busiest streets, in New York, Monday, to mark the one-year anniversary since black male John Crawford was shot by police whilst carrying an air rifle in an Ohio Walmart. The protesters gathered outside a Brooklyn shopping mall, chanting and blocking the street before police arrived to break up the rally. The activists also stormed a branch of Target in the area, holding toy guns, carrying placards condemning police brutality and racism and chanting slogans including "how is a toy gun mistaken for a real gun?" Crawford died on August 5, 2014, after police officer Sean Williams shot him in a Walmart in Ohio. A shopper called 911 saying that Crawford was waving a gun in a threatening manner. The caller later said that he had never seen Crawford pointing the gun at anyone. Police arrived on the scene and within seconds they shot the 22-year-old man dead. Security cameras showed Crawford waving the air rifle aimlessly whilst talking on the phone before he was shot.