Thousands Raise Their Voices For Eric Garner During Spirited March on Staten Island

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http://www.alternet.org/thousands-raise-their-voices-eric-garner-during-spirited-march-staten-island

Not too far ahead of the arm-linked band of men and women encircling the Rev. Al Sharpton, a father walked with his three young daughters, ages 6,10 and 13.

Baraka Smith, of Brooklyn, was one of many men and women who traveled to Staten Island with his young children to march in solidarity with the family of Eric Garner, who died at the hands of an NYPD officer. The officer had administered an illegal chokehold on the father of six in July.

For Smith, his young girls' presence at the rally was an elementary school lesson for black children: This could be you.

"What happened to Eric Garner, what happened to Mike Brown, could happen to me," Smith told AlterNet as the shoulder-to-shoulder crowd of marchers made their way down Bay Avenue. "It could happen to them. It could happen to any of us, so they need to be aware of it."

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1. I heard people talking about the march on WBAI. It sounded great -

people said it was very diverse-
White people, Asian people
(some Asian people marched as a group opposed to police brutality)
Arab people, people from the Caribbean.

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2. Kids all across the country are talking about this on the internet

I was surprised how much my 16 yr old knew about Eric Garner and Michael Brown

[ellenrr]

3. that's good. I was disappointed when I asked my brother

what he thot of Ferguson, and he thought I was talking about some actor.


true, I didn't give him any context. If I had said 'what do you think about the police killing of Michael Brown and related events', he probably would have snapped to it.