Rev. Al Sharpton, Eric Garner’s mother, Gwen Carr, and City Council President Andrea Jenkins told a crowd gathered Thursday near the site George Floyd died in Minneapolis that they stand with commu…
Rev. Al Sharpton, Eric Garner’s mother, Gwen Carr, and City Council President Andrea Jenkins told a crowd gathered Thursday near the site George Floyd died in Minneapolis that they stand with community members demanding justice and prosecution of the police involved.
That should start with the immediate arrest of the four officers at the scene, Sharpton told those gathered.
“In order to get an arrest, all you need is probable cause… Then a grand jury decides if there is an indictment,” Sharpton said. “You don’t need anything more then you have now to arrest those folks… You have a deceased person… You have a tape showing how he (became) deceased… They should tell those four police what they all the people in the hood: ‘Tell it to the judge.’”
Sharpton went on to say that while he is nonviolent, he did not come to Minneapolis Thursday to address riots or any violence that broke out in response to Floyd’s death.
“The violence I am addressing is how a man could hold a man down with his knee on his neck for nine minutes… The violence started on this corner when (Floyd) was chocking and begging for his life,” Sharpton said. “We are not asking for a favor. We are asking for what is right.”
Sharpton said he planned to stay in town to attend Floyd’s funeral services at the request of his family and called on people across the country to come together to be part of a national “We Can’t Breathe movement” that would kick off Saturday.
