Live updates from Saturday's rally for Eric Garner:
4:30 p.m. - Rally concludes without incident at the 120th Precinct stationhouse. Eric Garner's mother, Gwen Carr, and daughter, Emerald Garner thanked marchers for their support.
"This shows just how much Eric was loved," Ms. Carr said.
3:49 p.m. - Marchers chant, "I can't breathe," in front of 120th Precinct, echoing the last words of Eric Garner.
3:31 p.m. - March for Eric Garner makes a stop at scene where died in Tompkinsville. It's now continuing on to 120th Precinct.
3:20 p.m. - Rev. Al Sharpton is leading the march with Garner's family members.
Chants include: "120's gotta go," and "NYPD, no more killing."
3:12 p.m. - The march to the 120th police precinct in St. George has begun. At least two hundred people are marching.
Crowd are chanting, "No justice, no peace," as they march down Jersey Street.
3:06 p.m. - Garner's widow, Esaw, thanks community for the support they've shown her husband
She said Eric was looking forward to bringing his son to start his first year of college in the fall.
"He didn't have a violent bone in his body," she said.
2:57 p.m. - Sharpton invokes sports broadcaster Warner Wolf while speaking of Garner video.
"We don't have to argue, just go to the tape...We've been to the tape. And the tape speaks for itself."
He insists this isn't a "drive-by fall" and that "we will be here until what we see in that tape is clear in the halls of justice."
2:54 p.m. - Rev. Al Sharpton now speaking, says "From what I saw in the video, they (cops) disrespected his (Garner's) humanity."
2:42 p.m. - Tish James says situation will "test our mettle as a city." The public advocate said she is seeking answers as to why a banned practice was used so reflexively by a veteran police officer.
Of Garner, she said, "Maybe a man who was so beloved in life can teach us a lesson in death."
2:38 p.m. - Councilwoman Debi Rose asks that officers involved in Garner's attempted arrest be suspended without pay, pending a thorough and transparent investigation.
2:35 p.m. - Public advocate Letitia James and Comptroller Scott Stringer are in attendance at Saturday's rally.
2:27 p.m. - Borough president James Oddo was unable to attend Saturday's rally, but his office has offered a statement.
2:23 p.m. - City councilwoman Debi Rose, who represents the district where Eric Garner lived and died, has arrived at Mt. Sinai. Says she is "deeply saddened and troubled," by the circumstances of Garner's death.
"No one deserves to die or be killed with regards to what happened," she said. "Someone who could have been given a ticket is now dead."
2:14 p.m. - Around 100 people have packed into the Mount Sinai Center for Community Enrichment in New Brighton. Attendees are currently waiting for Rev. Al Sharpton and the Garner family to arrive.
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. – Large crowds are expected at the New Brighton rally and march for Eric Garner, the 43-year-old Staten Islander who died following an incident with police Thursday in Tompkinsville.
Rev. Al Sharpton, along with Eric Garner's family members, will be rallying Saturday at Mount Sinai Center for Community Enrichment, located at 382 Jersey St. in New Brighton, at 2 p.m. Community leaders, activists and local politicians are expected to attend.
Following the rally, residents will be marching to the 120th Precinct in St. George.
This rally and march follows Sharpton's public address, held earlier this morning at his National Action Network headquarters in Harlem.
"What defines you is whether or not you come to Staten Island to help a grieving widow," Rev. Sharpton said earlier, while addressing the Harlem crowd.
Garner, of Port Richmond, died Thursday shortly after police attempted to arrest him on suspicion of selling untaxed cigarettes. Police said Garner died of a heart attack while in police custody, but video of the incident shows an officer putting him in a chokehold and taking him to the ground. A medical examiner's autopsy will determine the official cause of death.
Updates from Mount Sinai Center to come.
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