Hundreds protest gov’t refusal to charge cop who killed Eric Garner
Vol. 83/ No. 28 - August 5, 2019![New York rally July 17 after federal government refused to press charges against cop who killed Eric Garner. Gwen Carr, Garner’s mother, at center, vowed to continue to fight for cop’s firing.](https://themilitant.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/eric_garner8328-300x192.jpg)
NEW YORK — “We are Eric Garner! We need justice and we need it now!” hundreds of demonstrators chanted July 17 as they marched to police headquarters here demanding the cop who killed Garner be fired. Five years earlier Garner,…