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Calling state grand jury systems broken, the Rev. Al Sharpton announced a national march on Washington next weekend to protest the lack of indictments against cops in New York City and Ferguson, Missouri, whose actions led to the deaths of black civilians.

Sharpton, speaking from the Harlem headquarter of his National Action Network on Thursday, vowed to put pressure on the federal government to take action in both cases.

We need to centralize and make clear, we want the Justice Department and the federal government to deal with the fact that the grand jury systems on a state level are broken and seem to lack the capacity to deal with police when you are dealing with questions of criminality and killings, he said.

The families of both Michael Brown, an unarmed black teen who was fatally shot by a white Ferguson cop, and Eric Garner, who died after being taken down by a white cop who threw his arm around his neck on Staten Island, will join the leaders of the march on Saturday, Dec. 13.

We want a centralized march around the specific address of a broken system that the grand juries have only underscored, Sharpton said.

He called out the grand jurys decision, released Wednesday, to not indict NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo despite video footage of the incident.

When even with a videotape you cannot seem to achieve a standard of probable cause A man laying down already surrounded by police, and hes still choking. He said I cant breathe 11 times. If that is not probable cause, then I dont know what probable cause has ever been established, Sharpton said.

The outspoken activist, who has been at the forefront of both cases as an advocate for the families, refused to speculate on how big the march in Washington would be, but compared it to past civil rights protests.

I see it as the sort of marches on Washington and other places that were for policy and repair of what needed to happen, he said, mentioning the marches and boycotts that led to the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

[We] hope this march begins a series of efforts that will lead to how we redo the grand jury review of policing in this country.

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Al Sharpton urges national march on Washington