By Rochelle Olson and Chao Xiong Star Tribune – Two national civil rights leaders visited south Minneapolis on Thursday for separate events but identical demands for the speedy charging and arrest of four Minneapolis police officers involved in death of George Floyd.

Sharpton was accompanied to the corner where Floyd was killed by Gwen Carr, the mother of Eric Garner, who was killed by New York City police in 2014.

Sharpton called on people to demonstrate Saturday across the country as part of the “We Can’t Breathe” movement, echoing the words both Garner and Floyd said to police before their deaths.

Sharpton said he and Carr would be with supporters at the scene of Garner’s death in New York “to link with those here in Minneapolis and around the country.”

Sharpton vowed to return for Floyd’s memorial service and “over and over again” until “we get justice” Carr recounted her five-year fight to get the officer who killed her son fired.