Following Garner Death, de Blasio Seeks to Ease Tensions With Help From Faith Leaders
NEW YORK—Mayor Bill de Blasio met with a dozen local Christian, Muslim, and Jewish faith leaders Wednesday to discuss how to ease tensions and build better relations between police and communities, in light of the death of Eric Garner, who died after a police officer placed him in a chokehold.
NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio (C) along with his wife (3rd R) meets with Timothy Cardinal Dolan, (3rd L) Rev. Al Sharpton, (2nd L) and commissioner William Bratton, (R) and other clergy members, for an interfaith roundtable meeting in Manhattan, New York on Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2014. Benjamin Chasteen/Epoch Times
By Annie Wu
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