Police arrest Black Lives Matter protesters in New York City
A demonstration in New York City by activists from the Black Lives Matter movement has been disrupted, after police detained a number of protesters.
The protest against police violence was held on Monday night. The number of people arrested and the reason for the detentions wasn't immediately clear.
The Black Lives Matter movement was launched to highlight US police brutality against people of color.
Dubbed "People's Monday", the demonstration was held to protest the death of 16-year-old Gynnya McMillen while in police custody.
McMillen died in January in her prison cell. The black girl was being held at the Lincoln Village Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Elizabethtown, Kentucky.
Investigators said several officers put McMillen in a type of martial arts restraint after she refused to take off her hoodie so a mugshot could be taken.
The latest police killing comes as law enforcement departments across the United States face increased scrutiny over allegations of excessive force against black people and other minority groups.
Police in the United States killed over 1,150 people in 2015, with the largest police departments disproportionately killing at least 321 African Americans, according to data compiled by an activist group that runs the Mapping Police Violence project.
The report also said charges against police officers who do use deadly force are very rare and that police use of lethal force is not correlated to violent crime rates.
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