Violent protests over chokehold death

A fifth day of nationwide protests against police violence was set to begin yesterday after overnight clashes in two West Coast cities as New York’s police commissioner said an internal investigation into a chokehold death could last four months.

After a relatively calm night in New York City, 13 people were arrested overnight in angry demonstrations in Seattle, where crowds threw rocks and attacked police, and in the California university town of Berkeley, where windows were smashed, stores looted and tear gas fired at protesters.

Protests were planned yesterday in dozens of cities across the country, including New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Miami and Minneapolis.