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.
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Following Garner Death, de Blasio Seeks to Ease Tensions With Help From Faith Leaders
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)
Annie Wu
8/20/2014
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10/8/2018

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Annie Wu joined the full-time staff at the Epoch Times in July 2014. That year, she won a first-place award from the New York Press Association for best spot news coverage. She is a graduate of Barnard College and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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