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The Rev. Al Sharpton is accompanied by Esaw Garner, center, wife of Eric Garner, who died in a chokehold incident with a New York City Police officer, and Gwen Carr, mother of the deceased, as he places a wreath at the scene of the occurrence last month. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

CITY HALL -- Eric Garner's family will join the Rev. Al Sharpton at a wreath-laying where two police officers were assassinated in Brooklynand hold a candlelight vigil in Tompkinsville on Martin Luther King Jr. Day next week.

The group, which includes Garner's widow Esaw and his mother Gwen Carr, will lead a caravan of buses to the wreath-laying and candlelight vigil after a policy forum at Sharpton's Harlem headquarters on Monday afternoon.

"We're going to travel through the boroughs," Carr said on Tuesday. "We're doing that on Martin Luther King Day to commemorate his birthday and remember what the struggle is about."

In addition to praying where Detectives Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos were slain in Brooklyn, the group will also hold a vigil for Akai Gurley on Monday. Gurley was unarmed when he was shot and killed by a police officer in a dark public housing stairwell last year.

Garner diedafter being placed in an apparent chokehold by a police officer during an arrest attempt in Tompkinsville last summer. Since a grand jury's decision not to indict in the case, demonstrations and vigils have been regularly held on Staten Island and across the city.

Carr's mother said she hasn't gotten protest fatigue since the controversial decision last year.

"I got to do what I got to do to get justice," she said.

Here is a complete schedule of city events Sharpton has planned for Monday's holiday:

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