P.O.P Will March to Condemn Eric Garner Grand Jury

The People’s Organization for Progress will march and rally on Thursday, December 4t, to condemn the grand jury in New York City for not criminally indicting the officers involved in the videotaped chokehold killing of an unarmed Eric Garner in Staten Island.

Garner was killed on July 17 of this year after officers approached him for trying to sell “loosies,” or loose cigarettes. Officer Daniel Pantaleo placed Garner in a chokehold, from which he never recovered.

“This is the time be heard on the streets of every city in this country,” said Lawrence Hamm, the organization’s founding chairman. “Even in some of the most egregious cases, police officers are rarely criminally indicted in police brutality cases.”

Participants will assemble at the Lincoln Monument in Newark on Springfield Avenue at 5:00 p.m.

POP organized a large similar march and rally just last week in response to the Michael Brown grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri not handing down an indictment of the officer responsible for his death.

See coverage here:

• WATCH: Newark Will Hold Rally to Protest No Indictment for Ferguson Officer Who Shot Michael Brown
• Newark Locals to Protest Ferguson Grand Jury

Other efforts and events organized by the People’s Organization for Progress:

• P.O.P Marks Founding Anniversary of the Black Panther Party with Teach-In
• P.O.P Marching Against Police Brutality
• Film Screening: P.O.P Showing ‘Presumption of Guilt’
• P.O.P.C.O.R.N Kidz Remember Amiri Baraka

Information Courtesy of the People’s Organization for Progress.