The fifth night of demonstrations in support of gunned down Ferguson, Missouri teen Michael Brown saw scores of protesters marching through the streets of New York in a vigil that culminated in Times Square Thursday night.

Tensions flared as some protestors attempted to shove their way through a police barricade set up in their path toward the beating heart of the city.

#NMOS14 #NYC #UnionSquare #MikeBrown pic.twitter.com/iuAw5YwEn9

— Lamar Richardson (@Lamar_Alphonso) August 15, 2014

Police held their own and tempers soon calmed, but as night gripped New York, the already congested Times Square ground to a halt as over 1000 marchers flowed into the streets to demand an end to police brutality and militarization and justice for 18-year-old Brown.

#HandsUpDontShoot Times Square in NYC last night in solidarity with #Ferguson < via Brendan McDermid @Reuters pic.twitter.com/1B1MeXO83i

— The Crisis Magazine (@thecrisismag) August 15, 2014

The group chanted ‘Hands Up, Don’t Shoot’ in their march toward midtown that tied up traffic in the hours after the evening rush.

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