100-Plus Students Skip Last Class Period to Protest Garner Death

More than 100 New Canaan High School students left their last class and held a rally and march to express their outrage the death of Eric Garner at the hands of New York City police officers on Staten Island, according to various reports.

Reports differed on how many hundreds of the 1,300 of the school’s students participated in the Thursday protest, which included speeches by organizer Charles Sosnick, a die-in outside the school, with students laying on the ground to illustrate the fact that Garner was on the ground when he died, and a march to New Canaan Police Headquarters.

Sosnick, a senior at NCHS, said the march to the police station wasn’t to accuse New Canaan police of improper behavior, but to remind everyone that New Canaan police are “just as susceptible” to brutality, racism and lack of respect toward the public as any police, according to an article on the New Canaanite website.