<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px 0px 24px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong>NEW YORK (PIX11) –</strong> Following a grand jury’s decision not to indict an NYPD officer in the chokehold death of Eric Garner, Rev. Al Sharpton announced a national march in Washington D.C planned for December 13.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px 0px 24px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“We are dealing with a national crisis,” Sharpton said surrounded by Garner’s family, including his widow Esaw and mother Gwen Carr.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px 0px 24px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“How many people have to die before people understand this is not an illusion, this is a reality America has got to come to terms with?”</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px 0px 24px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Sharpton referenced the recent shooting deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Tamir Rice in Cleveland, and Akai Gurley in East New York.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px 0px 24px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“We have no faith in local, state prosecutions,” Sharpton said.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px 0px 24px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“While we wait for the federal government to move, we are moving that way [December 13],” Sharpton said.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px 0px 24px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“It is time for a national march to deal with a national problem.”</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px 0px 24px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px 0px 24px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When:::</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">10:30am @ Freedom Plaza, 13th Street & Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, D.C.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px 0px 24px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span><a href="http://pix11.com/2014/12/03/rev-sharpton-announces-washington-dc-march-to-protest-eric-garner-decision/">http://pix11.com/2014/12/03/rev-sharpton-announces-washington-dc-march-to-protest-eric-garner-decision/</a></p><br><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Jason</span><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">301-943-3017</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-align: center; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">😻</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 13pt;">🙀</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 13pt;">😽</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 13pt;">😼</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 13pt;">🐱</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 13pt;">🐯</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 13pt;">🐈</span></div></div></div></body></html>