Garner death

NEW YORK—A highly-anticipated march and rally on Saturday on Staten Island has been preceded by days city leaders, including the mayor, urging for calm.

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.

NEW YORK—Six New York City Democrats requested that U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder open a federal investigation of the death of Staten Island resident Eric Garner in police custody, and inquire whether the NYPD’s “broken windows” policing violates the civil rights of the city’s minority communities.