Posted by TAG - July 20, 2014 | News
 STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — July 19, 2014. Photo: Reverend Al Sharpton (of the National Action Network) with Esaw Garner, widow of Eric Garner, at a protest held on Saturday, in the Staten Island neighborhood where Mr. Garner died while in police custody. Eric Garner died on Thursday, July 17, while being pinned to the ground by police during an arrest - a video shot by a friend of Garner’s shows the man being choked and crying out, “I can’t breathe” several times before he stopped moving or speaking. The Saturday rally and march was attended by hundreds of Staten Islanders. Police blocked traffic on Victory Boulevard and Bay Street, in the busy Tompkinsville section of the Island, to allow the large procession to march from the Mt. Sinai church rally site to the 120 Precinct. Two of the officers who arrested Mr. Garner are being investigated by the NYPD’s Internal Affairs Bureau - for using a chokehold on the victim. Below: New York City Public Advocate Letitia James at the Garner protest. |
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