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Mothers of Eric Garner, Trayvon Martin and other victims of police violence will speak at DNC
New York Daily NewsThe mothers of African-Americans killed by police or in gun violence, including Eric Garner’s mom, will be among the headlining speakers at the Democratic National Convention.
On Tuesday night, following a keynote speech by former President Bill Clinton, seven members of “Mothers of the Movement,” a sisterhood of moms who share the singular tragedy of having lost their sons to cops or guns, will address the Philadelphia summit.
Scheduled to speak are Gwen Carr, the mother of Garner, who was killed in an illegal police chokehold on Staten Island; Sybrina Fulton, the mother of Trayvon Martin, the Florida teenager shot dead by a self-appointed neighborhood watchman; Geneva Reed-Veal, the mother of Sandra Bland, who found hanged in a Texas jail cell after she was arrested during a traffic stop; and Lezley McSpadden, the mother of Michael Brown, whose shooting death at the hands of Ferguson, Mo., police in 2014 set off riots across the nation.
