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In court, Garner ma vows to ‘resist’ Prez
THE MOTHER of Eric Garner vowed to carry on “the resistance” against President Trump as she went before a judge on civil disobedience charges Monday for protesting in front of Trump Tower.
“We believe that we have a right and we are the resistance,” said Gwendolyn Carr outside Manhattan Criminal Court after accepting a conditional dismissal deal.
Carr, whose 43-year-old son was put in a fatal chokehold by a Staten Island cop in 2014 while being busted for selling illegal cigarettes, was arrested along with several others for sitting in the street in front of Trump’s Fifth Ave. building on Jan. 31 — the day the President announced Neil Gorsuch as his Supreme Court nominee.
The protesters, who included Al Sharpton’s daughter Ashley Sharpton, objected to Trump getting to choose a justice for the nation’s highest court after Republicans denied former President Barack Obama the chance to name a replacement for late Justice Antonin Scalia last year.
“We can’t just stand by and say nothing and let the Trump administration just take advantage of this country,” said Carr, 67.
Sharpton, 29, who stood next to Carr outside the courthouse, noted how Monday’s court date coincided with the first day of Gorsuch’s Senate confirmation hearing in Washington, and said his appointment should be derailed by the Democrats.
“The resistance continues and the Dems need to filibuster the vote,” she said.