Thousands of demonstrators take to the streets in New York to highlight police brutality at last week's protest against the power of the US finance industry Several thousand anti-Wall Street protesters marched through downtown Manhattan on Friday night to protest against incidents of police brutality at a previous demonstration.

Members of the Occupy Wall Street movement have vowed to stay through winter in a park near New York's iconic financial district where they are protesting issues including the 2008 bank bailouts, foreclosures and high unemployment in the United States.Similar protests inspired by New York's have emerged in other US cities in recent days, including Boston, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles.