Globe photos of the month, December 2014 Print

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Medical students wearing white coats held a die-in at Harvard Medical Schools Medical Education Center in Boston on International Human Rights Day. Demonstrations were also held at medical schools in New York, St. Louis, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and elsewhere to protest the lack of indictments for police killings and to spotlight racial bias as a public health issue . (David L. Ryan/Globe Staff)

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As thousands marched through the streets of Boston to protest recent police killings of black men, a Boston police officer grabbed a protester who had knocked him off his bike on Tremont Street. (John Tlumacki/Globe Staff)

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Despite the cold temperatures, Alexander Pires, 5, walked with his dad, Eder Pires, and grandfather, Ahmad Darvesh, on the beach at Red Rock Park on the Lynn Shore Reservation in Lynn. (Lane Turner/Globe Staff)

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A man dressed as Darth Vader drew looks from a group of children at Park Street Station on Boston Common.. (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff)

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Globe photos of the month, December 2014