Demonstrators are going on a 250-mile march that will take them from New York City to Philadelphia to Capitol Hill in protest of police brutality.
The March 2 Justice began Monday morning on Staten Island, the borough where Eric Garner died during a confrontation with NYPD officers last summer. Garner's death, along with others across the nation including that of Ferguson teen Michael Brown, set off protests that culminated with several nights of massive marches when a grand jury chose not to charge the officer seen putting Garner in a chokehold in a widely viewed amateur video with any crimes.
About 100 protesters from the Justice League NYC will begin their journey by marching across the Outerbridge Crossing into New Jersey. They'll stage protests and rallies in Newark, New Jersey; Trenton; Philadelphia; Wilmington, Delaware' and Baltimore, Maryland before making it to Washington on April 21.
Organizers said that the march's timing is to mark the death of Walter Scott, the black South Carolina man shot and killed by a white police officer after running from a traffic stop earlier this month.
