Protesters call for Bill Bratton's resignation over Staten Island death

ERIN DURKIN

Activists called for the resignation of Police Commissioner Bill Bratton Monday over the death of Staten Island man Eric Garner after an NYPD officer put him in a chokehold.

“What Commissioner Bill Bratton has shown is that he is unable to control his own police officers, and he has never done anything to address the systematic brutality that keeps on happening,” said Josmar Trujillo, an organizer with the group New Yorkers Against Bratton.

“This is not a man who can mend and heal the wounds between community and police,” he said. “He is a poison for communities of color.”

The group of about a dozen protesters outside City Hall included members of New Yorkers Against Bratton, which was formed in December after Bratton’s appointment as police commissioner to oppose his “broken windows” approach of pursuing minors crimes, as well as a CUNY professor critical of the approach and a longshot candidate for mayor and governor.

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