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9:10 p.m.
Several dozen people have demonstrated at a busy Houston intersection to protest the death of a black man in the custody of Baltimore police. About 50 people gathered Wednesday evening at the intersection near the south Houston campus of historically black Texas Southern University. Some were holding placards bearing such slogans as "Honk For Justice" and "America's Worst Nightmare."
The protesters were outnumbered by the police presence that included officers mounted on horseback and flying overhead in a helicopter. An ambulance and a bus were on standby.
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8:30 p.m.
Hundreds have marched in Boston and Indianapolis in support of Baltimore protesters angered by the death of a black man in police custody.
The Boston gathering began Wednesday evening in a park behind police headquarters in Roxbury and continued with a peaceful march through the neighbourhood. Police accompanied the marchers and blocked streets for them.
Marchers chanted "no justice, no peace, no racist police" and some carried signs, including "Boston Stands With Baltimore."
Wayne Dozier, grandfather of D.J. Henry, a black college football player from Massachusetts who was shot by police in the suburbs New York City four years ago, attended the rally and said "it hurts" to lose a loved one to police action. He said society needs to change.
In downtown Indianapolis, more than two dozen protesters marched around Monument Circle chanting "no racist police" and carrying signs with slogans that included "I'm not scared of the apocalypse. I'm scared of a copalypse."
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8:25 p.m.
More than a dozen people have been arrested at a rally in Manhattan's Union Square to protest the death of Freddie Gray, a Baltimore man who was critically injured in police custody.
Several hundred protesters began gathering Wednesday night, chanting "no justice, no peace" and "hands up, don't shoot" as police officers watched.
Later, a group of protesters spilled into the street and disrupted traffic. The police moved in and began making arrests. Officers with batons had to push the crowd back onto the sidewalk.
As a protester being arrested was led to a police van, people shouted "the whole world is watching."
Another group of protesters marched north to Times Square where they held a "die in" by lying on the ground.
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8:15 p.m.
Baltimore's police commissioner says the department is "not giving up" on dozens of people who've been released from custody after Monday's riots.
The people released Wednesday afternoon were arrested but not charged. Commissioner Anthony Batts said Wednesday evening that the department will conduct follow-up investigations and charge people appropriately. The department was required by law to release people from custody if they were not charged within 48 hours.
Capt. Eric Kowalczyk (koh-WAHL'-chek), a police spokesman, says the number of people released Wednesday was "in the 80s," but the Maryland Public Defender's Office, which worked on behalf of the detainees, said 101 people were let go.
Batts says 16 more adults and two juveniles were arrested during peaceful protests Wednesday. That brings the total number of arrests since Monday's riots to more than 250.
Protesters have been demanding answers after the death of Freddie Gray, an unarmed black man, in police custody.
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7:45 p.m.
More than a thousand protesters have made their way back from City Hall to Penn Station two hours after their peaceful march and rally began.
As the group walked back to the train station through residential neighbourhoods Thursday evening, people sitting on stoops were recording the march, waving to those walking and indicating their support for the demonstrators' message of justice for Freddie Gray, who was critically injured in police custody.
Law student Djaz Baluch Jr. was watching from his row house and said he supports the marchers "a hundred per cent."
"This inconvenience is minor compared to the inconvenience people in impoverished communities face every day due to police brutality," he said.
Once back at the station, protest organizers urged protesters to go home and fight another day.
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7 p.m.
Several hundred people have gathered at Union Square in Manhattan to protest the death of Freddie Gray, a Baltimore man who was critically injured in police custody.
The protesters chanted "no justice, no peace" and "hands up, don't shoot" Wednesday night as dozens of New York police officers watched.
A police helicopter hovered overhead and a police loudspeaker warned the protesters that they would be arrested if they marched in the street.
One of the protesters said, "The police have become out of control."
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