Instead of Verrazano March, Sharpton Will Bring Buses Across Bridge

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Ross Barkan

Bowing to pressure from officials, Rev. Al Sharpton announced this morning that he will send caravans across the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge to protest police brutality instead of marching on foot.

Mr. Sharpton said at his National Action Network Headquarters in Harlem that the issue was the death of a Staten Island man in police custody–not whether people could walk across a bridge with no pedestrian walkway.

“Everybody made the bridge the issue,” Mr. Sharpton declared. “So the bridge did not choke Eric Garner. The issue is not the bridge. The issue is the homicide that no one has told this family or the community what they’re gonna do about it and who’s gonna be in charge.”

Read more at http://observer.com/2014/08/instead-of-verrazano-march-sharpton-will-bring-buses-across-bridge/#ixzz39vHPVAJt

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