Protests slow in New York after funeral for slain black man


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  • Sunday, 07 Dec 2014

Reverend Al Sharpton announces a march against police violence on December 13 in Washington DC as chokehold victim Eric Garner's mother Gwen Carr (R) and widow Esaw Garner (2nd R) watch at Reverend Sharpton's National Action Network House of Justice in New York December 6, 2014. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A fourth night of demonstrations against police violence got off to a slow start on a rain-soaked Saturday in New York, after mourners held a funeral for a black man shot dead by a white police officer in the stairwell of a Brooklyn apartment house.

But protesters in Berkeley, California clashed with police, hurling objects and smashing store windows on Saturday night.

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