Protest over chokehold decision turns violent
Posted on AllSides December 7th, 2014
From The Left
Quiet finally fell on a main thoroughfare of Berkeley, Calif., on Sunday after a night of protest turned violent and left several businesses battered and looted.
Protests across the nation over a New York grand jury's decision Wednesday not to charge a white police officer in the chokehold-related death of an unarmed black man were mostly peaceful Saturday night. But in Berkeley, masked protesters smashed windows and threw objects at police, authorities said.
Some protesters broke business windo
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