Students Plan Ferguson 'Response Event' Friday Night

Students at Salem State University are planning a ”response event” Friday in response to the grand jury decision earlier this month not to charge a police officer in connection to the shooting death of an unarmed man in Ferguson, Missouri, according to the Ferguson National Response Network.

The event is planned to start at 7 p.m. near the Bertolon School of Business along the Marblehead Rail Trail, off Loring Avenue.

It is one of “planned response events” across the country that are designed to address “all police brutality and racial injustice nationwide.”

The grand jury decision has prompted protests, demonstrations and so-called “die-ins” in cities and on college campus across the city, including Boston, Cambridge and Somerville.

In October, Salem State hosted a forum with a panel of professors that addressed “the connection that race, racism and racial oppression have to the events that occurred and are unfolding in Ferguson, Missouri this year.”

Since then, protesters have also focused on the death of Eric Garner, who died after he was arrested for allegedly selling loose cigarettes and an officer placed him in a chokehold.