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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The Rev. Al Sharpton and the family ofEric Garner will hold a vigil Monday night in Tompkinsville on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a finale to commemorations that will stretch from Washington D.C. to Harlem.

As president and founder of the National Action Network in Harlem, Rev. Sharpton will be rubbing shoulders with Mayor Bill de Blasio and other local and national politicians throughout the day.

Rev. Sharpton and the Garner family "will continue to call for a federal investigation of his killing and possible civil rights violation" at the 8 p.m. vigil on Bay Street near Victory Boulevard where Eric Garner had his fatal encounter with the NYPD.

In the afternoon on Monday, Rev. Sharpton, the family of Eric Garner and hundreds of supporters bused from the National Action Network will lay a wreath at the site at Myrtle and Tompkins Avenues in Brooklyn where NYPD Officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos were assassinated. Rev. Sharpton was quick to disavow any connection to the shootings.

"Dr. King would have denounced senseless violence & stressed our movement for justice in police reform, a movement that is not anti police or a hate of police movement," said a news release from the National Action Network.

Mayor de Blasio, and Senators Charles Schumer (D-NY) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) are scheduled to join Rev. Sharpton in a Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Policy Forum that will be live streamed beginning at 1 p.m. at NationalActionNetwork.net.

On Monday morning, Rev. Sharpton and the National Action Network are hosting a breakfast at theswanky Mayflower Hotel in the District of Columbia with guest speakers U.S. Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell of Health and Human Services and U.S. Secretary, Julin Castro of Housing and Urban Development.

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Rev. Al Sharpton and Garner family to hold vigil on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Staten Island