Hundreds of Salisbury University students stood quietly yesterday -- many of them wearing black.
They were protesting the decision by a New York City grand jury not to indict a white police officer whose chokehold was involved in the death of Eric Garner.
The campus NAACP rallied against what the students see as a pattern of police brutality against black suspects like Garner.
Alexis Lee, a historian for the student NAACP, said 24 black men and women have experienced similar fates since 1999.
Two dozen students stretched out across the courtyard near Blackwell Library drawing around 500 students, faculty members and supporters of all races.