"We don't want to see rioting," Dukes said. Hazel Dukes, president of the New York state chapter of the NAACP civil rights group, said she was "very worried" about the possible response if no charges are brought by the Staten Island grand jury, which has been meeting in secret since August. The decision also prompted dozens of sympathy demonstrations across the United States, including in New York where major roadways were shut down. "We've been doing a lot of behind-the-scenes work to just try to get temperaments at bay." After the Missouri grand jury decision in the death of Michael Brown, rioters clashed with police, burning down buildings and looting stores. "We're just praying and hoping that things don't get out of hand," said Bobby Digi, a Staten Island activist and businessman. Protesters may march to federal prosecutors' offices in Brooklyn, which some hope will take over the Garner case if there is no local indictment, according to activist Al Sharpton's National Action Network. Officials on Staten Island, the city's smallest borough and site of Garner's death, have been told to expect a heightened police presence in the wake of violent protests last week after a grand jury in Missouri did not charge a white police officer in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teen in August. It is not clear when the grand jury will rule. Protest groups have planned marches if the grand jury does not charge any of the officers involved in the July 17 incident, which led to the death of Eric Garner, a 43-year-old father of six. The video shared on Facebook by Craig's cousin, Porsha Craver, has been shared over 80,000 times and viewed more than 2m times.By Ellen Wulfhorst NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York officials were preparing for likely protests as a grand jury decides whether to charge police in the death of a black man subjected to a banned choke hold, but aimed to avoid the kind of violence that engulfed a St.
The officer was wearing a body camera but footage will not be released until an investigation is completed. Craig, her daughter and a relative, Brea Hymond, were all arrested.Īn attorney for the family, Lee Merritt, said at a news conference on Thursday: "It's not a situation where someone used a racial slur, but racism is still all over it," according to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.įort Worth police said an internal investigation was underway. The cop then says: "why not?" Shocked, the woman behind the camera tells the officer: "You are live."Īfter further heated exchange the officer tells Craig: "If you keep yelling at me, you're going to piss me off and I'm going to take you to jail."Ī girl the New York Post identifies as Craig's 15-year-old daughter walks in between the officer and her mother but the officer grabs the girl.Ī scuffle ensues in which the officer takes out his taser, though reports said it was uncertain whether or not he used it. The cop says to Craig: "Why don't you teach your son not to litter?" to which Craig replies "it doesn't matter if he did or didn't, it doesn't give him the right to put his hands on him." On her Brexit plans Theresa May keeps mum in front of ma'am
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