Eric Garner Said ‘I Can't Breathe' 11 Times -- Now Activists Are Making 11 Demands In His Name
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/11/eric-garner-protests-demands_n_6308956.html
It’s been more than a week since a Staten Island grand jury decided not to indict a New York City police officer in the death of Eric Garner, and protesters have taken to the streets each night since then, staging “die-ins” and marching over bridges, often bringing traffic to a standstill.
Now, a coalition of activist groups has issued a list of 11 specific demands to reform the NYPD -- one demand for each time Garner said “I can’t breathe” before he died.
The demands include a call for New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) to appoint a special prosecutor for all cases in which a civilian dies at the hands of police. Other demands include the passage of an NYPD reform bill called The Right To Know Act, which Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) has said he does not support, and an end to “broken windows” policing....
The coalition is organized under the hashtag #ThisStopsToday, as “This stops today” were also some of Garner’s final words. Its first action took place Wednesday in Midtown Manhattan, with protesters chanting “Broken windows! Broken lives!” outside the headquarters of the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank often credited with developing what’s called the “broken windows” theory of policing.
