One Year After Eric Garner’s Death, ‘Justice for Garner’ Rally to Take Place July 18

As the KKK Holds a Pro-Confederate Flag Rally, Rev. Al Sharpton to Call for the Renaming of Robert E. Lee Avenue in Brooklyn

NEW YORK - One year since the police chokehold death of Eric Garner, no federal charges have been filed against the officer who killed Mr. Garner in Staten Island and three years after the police shooting of teenager Ramarley Graham in the Bronx, both families have yet to see justice. President and founder of National Action Network (NAN), Reverend Al Sharpton and his coalition will rally and take a petition to the United States Justice Department to demand expedited federal investigations in Garner and Graham’s killings and call for justice system reform and police accountability.

The rally will also call for the immediate renaming of Robert E. Lee Avenue, a street named in honor of Confederate General Robert E. Lee on Fort Hamilton, which is New York’s only United States military base. It will be held in solidarity and remembrance of the lives lost in Charleston, South Carolina, and in protest of the Ku Klux Klan pro-Confederate flag rally at the South Carolina Statehouse taking place at the same time.

WHO:

The Family of police-chokehold victim Eric Garner, including Gwen Carr, his mother, his children and wife Esaw Garner; the mothers of national police-killing cases Sybrina Fulton (Trayvon Martin), Lesley McFadden (Michael Brown), Valerie Bell (Sean Bell), Constance Malcolm (Ramarley Graham) and more

The Justice for Eric Garner Rally Organizers: National Action Network (NAN), 1199 SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, NYC Communities for Change, Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), Working Families (WF) & New York State Nurses Association

WHEN:

Saturday, July 18, 2015 - 12:30 p.m.

WHAT:  Rally at the U.S. Federal Courthouse Eastern District Cadman Plaza

WHERE:

225 Cadman Plaza at Tillary Street

Brooklyn, NY

Other Eric Garner Week Events:

Friday, July 17, 2015

7:30 p.m.

House of the Lord Church

401 Atlantic Avenue

The Mothers and families of police killing victims Gwen Carr, Leslie McFadden, Sybrina Fulton and others

7:30 p.m.

Vigil for Eric Garner hosted by the family of Eric Garner

Canaan Baptist Church of Christ

116^th and Lenox – Harlem, NY

Source: The Office of the National Action Network