Several hundred people rallied in Providence and blocked downtown streets to protest a grand jury's decision to not indict a white police officer in the chokehold death of an unarmed black man in New York City.

City police also said they had to stop some protesters from walking onto Interstate 95 Friday night, but no arrests or violence were reported.

People marched and shouted "black lives matter" and other sayings to protest a grand jury's decision to not indict a white New York City officer in the chokehold death of an unarmed black man, Eric Garner. They also protested a similar grand jury decision in the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.

Demonstrators stopped at several intersections and sat down. They also lay down outside the Providence Place mall.