(17 Jul 2024)
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New York – 17 July 2024
1. Various of Gwen Carr and others march on street in Staten Island near where her son Eric Garner was killed
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Gwen Carr, Mother of Eric Garner:
“I still want to bring up about keeping my son’s name relevant, because he should not have died that day. I should not be here talking to you today. I should be doing what I usually do. He should be doing what he usually do.”
3. Marchers
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Gwen Carr, Mother of Eric Garner:
“I would like to see more justice. I want to see more accountability. When there’s wrongdoing. Although we know that the police have a tough job, but when there’s wrongdoing, when we have those bad apples in the police department, we have to get rid of them because we don’t want to see another innocent citizen get hurt, you know, by the police or gun violence, either one.”
5. Marching with banner
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Gwen Carr, Mother of Eric Garner:
“I am still commemorating my son, and I will for the rest of my life. I want people to remember him and remember that he was the one that helped get laws changed, to help implement laws, who was the sacrificial lamb, and that because of him, others have benefited. There’s more video cameras when people are doing wrong. There’s more cams on police offices. And, I think we’ve made steps in the right direction, but it’s still so much more work to do.”
7. Eric Garner mural
8. Eric Garner street sign
9. Man in shirt with the words “I Can’t Breathe, Black Lives Matter”
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Anngeannette Pinkston, Marching in Honor of Eric Garner:
“Well, today’s march is about Eric Garner. It’s ten years after his death when he basically stated that he can’t breathe. Ten years later, Gwen is still fighting until we get equality from this world. You understand? She’s going to continue fighting, Gwen Carr, she’s a strong, determined woman. And that’s why we’re all here, gathered here today to show support and to give back the things that she’s fighting for we want it too.”
11. Gwen Carr and Anngeannette Pinkston hugging
STORYLINE:
It has been 10 years since the chokehold death of Eric Garner at the hands of New York City police officers made “I can’t breathe” a rallying cry.
On Wednesday, Garner’s mother, Gwen Carr, led a march honoring her son on Staten Island. That’s where Garner died after being restrained by Officer Daniel Pantaleo on July 17, 2014.
Garner died after a confrontation with officers who accused him of selling loose, untaxed cigarettes. His death spurred protests in New York and across the country.
Neither state or federal prosecutors chose to file criminal charges against Pantaleo or the other officers who were present.
Video showed Pantaleo, who is white, wrapping an arm around the neck of Garner, who was Black, as they struggled and fell to the sidewalk. “I can’t breathe,” Garner gasped repeatedly, before losing consciousness. He was pronounced dead at a hospital.
Authorities in New York determined that Pantaleo had used a chokehold banned by the New York Police Department in the 1990s, and the city medical examiner’s office ruled Garner’s death a homicide, but neither state nor federal prosecutors filed criminal charges against
Pantaleo or any of the other officers who were present.
Pantaleo was fired in 2019 after a police disciplinary proceeding.
Garner’s family settled a lawsuit against New York City for $5.9 million but continued to seek justice in the form of a judicial inquiry into vGarner’s death in 2021.
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