Thousands march in New York City to protest police chokehold death

The Reverend Al Sharpton led thousands of chanting but halcyon activists in a march across Staten Island on Saturday to protest the death of Eric Garner, who died after New York City police put him in an ostracized chokehold last month.

Protesters peregrinated by bus and ferry to join the rally over Garner, a 43-year-old ebony father of six, whose killing has become a component of a more immensely colossal national debate about how U.S. police use force, particularly on people who are not white.

"If you can do it to him, then you can do it to any citizen and we are not going to be silent when that transpires," Sharpton verbally expressed at a pre-rally verbalization at the Mt. Sinai United Christian Church in the borough where Garner died.

Sharpton was joined by former New York Governor David Patterson, other civil rights bellwethers and Garner's widow, Esaw.

"Let's make this a tranquil march and get equity for my husband so that this doesn't transpire to anybody else," Esaw Garner verbalized in a somber tone to protesters.
The demonstration was withal in replication to the death of Michael Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old African American who was shot dead by a white police officer this month in Ferguson, Missouri, sparking more than a week of truculent confrontations, Sharpton verbally expressed.

Protesters carried signs asking for equity for Garner and Brown and shouted slogans including, "Hands up don't shoot." They commenced Saturday's march at just after noon, with plans to ambulate past the District Attorney's Office, a few blocks from the terminal for ferries to Manhattan.

Dawn Edwards, a human resource executive from Brooklyn, verbally expressed she opted to march out of trepidation that negative stereotypes will have an impact on her two adolescent sons as they grew older.

"I hope when my boys grow up to become men those stereotypes will no longer subsist," she verbally expressed.

A few dozen New York Police Department officers lined blocked streets near the march's starting point.

A New York City prosecutor verbally expressed on Tuesday that he will present evidence to a grand jury next month to determine whether anyone should be criminally charged in Garner's death.

The city's medical examiner ruled the death a homicide, verbalizing police officers killed him by compressing his neck and chest as they restrained him for selling loose cigarettes. His health quandaries, including asthma and exorbitant corpulence, were contributing factors, the medical examiner verbalized.