NY protesters slam police brutality in US

Hundreds of protesters have held a rally in New York City to protest police brutality against Americans, in particular, people of color.

The demonstrators marched Saturday through the streets of New York at the 'RiseUpOctober' event which began on Thursday.

NY police made multiple arrests during the march. Officers informed demonstrators that if they did not move they would be arrested. With protesters standing their ground, members of the New York Police Department (NYPD) started seizing random peaceful protesters and detaining them.

The protest was also joined by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Quentin Tarantino and academic Cornel West who rallied along others in Manhattan's Washington Square Park before marching about two miles along the Sixth Avenue.

The rally was organized by Carl Dix of the Revolutionary Communist Party and West with the help of the Stop Mass Incarceration Network.

The organizers’ goal was to organize “mass determined resistance” to a “matrix of oppression.”

A string of police killings of unarmed African Americans has led to the creation of the Black Lives Matter movement and raised nationwide debates about police violence.

Numerous demonstrations have been held across the country following white police officers killing unarmed African-American men, including Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri; Tamir Rice in Cleveland, Ohio; Eric Garner in Staten Island, New York and Walter Scott in North Charleston, South Carolina.

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