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2014: The Year in Protests (87 images)

While demonstrators marched in the U.S. protesting police violence, pro-democracy activists occupied Hong Kong, and rioters took to the street of Kiev. Immigration, Independence, Climate Change, and Human Rights were all major themes in 2014, the year of the protester.



Ferguson, Missouri - Police shooting of Michael Brown
Protesters are greeted by a line of Missouri State Police during a protest march on the police station in Ferguson, Missouri on August 11, 2014. People are protesting the police shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown on August 9, 2014. Rioting and looting took place in the community on August 10. UPI/Bill Greenblatt
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Ferguson, Missouri - Police shooting of Michael Brown
Protesters are greeted by lines of State and County police during a demonstration march on the Ferguson police station in Ferguson, Missouri on August 11, 2014. People are upset because of the Ferguson Police shooting and death of an unarmed black teenager Michael Brown on August 9, 2014. UPI/Bill Greenblatt
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Ferguson, Missouri - Police shooting of Michael Brown
Fire hoses are useless as a section of of Ferguson, Missouri burns during the night of November 24th/25th after a grand jury decided not to indict police officer Darren Wilson in the killing of Michael Brown late on November 24, 2014. Wilson killed Brown, who was unarmed, in an August 9, 2014 incident that has sparked racial tension and riots. UPI/Lawrence Bryant
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Ferguson, Missouri - Police shooting of Michael Brown
Police restrain a protester as they remove him from a street during a demonstration in Ferguson, Missouri on Septmber 10, 2014. About 100 protesters threatened to walk onto and shutdown Highway 70 as a form of civil disobedience related to the Michael Brown shooting and riots in Ferguson, Missouri last month. Over 200 police stopped the protesters from reaching the highway. About 25 people were arrested. UPI/Bill Greenblatt
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