The real looting happens when innocent Black men are gunned down by police officers with no cause or justification.”

Foy, who once helped elect New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, says he’s the exact type of mayor who should be held accountable for reneging on his promises to the Black community and for letting the officer who choked Garner to death remain on the force for years.

“Specifically, we are demanding independent and thorough investigations of violent police officers,” Carr wrote in an op-ed for The New York Daily News.

Garner’s mother is scheduled to speak to Juneteenth protesters in Washington, D.C., alongside the loved ones of two other Black men killed by New York City police, Drive to Justice organizers told HuffPost.

Outside San Francisco City Hall, hundreds listened to rallying cries from Gwen Woods, the mother of a Black man, Mario Woods, shot dead by police in 2015.