The mother of Eric Garner, the unarmed black man whose high-profile death at the hands of police in 2014 sparked widespread protests, addressed hundreds of demonstrators in New York…
The mother of Eric Garner, the unarmed black man whose high-profile death at the hands of police in 2014 sparked widespread protests, addressed hundreds of demonstrators in New York on Friday demanding action against police brutality in the wake of George Floyd’s death.
The Washington Post reports that Gwen Carr addressed a crowd in Foley Square a day after more than 70 protesters were arrested in the area. Carr, speaking through a megaphone and wearing an “I can’t breathe” mask, said the death of Floyd echoed that of her son.
“They have to stop coming into our neighborhoods and brutalizing, terrorizing, murdering,” she said.
