After almost three years, Eric Garner's family is still frustrated waiting for answers about the ongoing federal investigation into Garner's death.
Garner had asthma and was heard saying that he couldn't breathe.
"As is common with an ongoing investigation, agents and prosecutors from the Department of Justice are meeting with the family of Eric Garner", said department spokesman Devin O'Malley.
Garner, 43, of Staten Island, died during a 2014 altercation with police who were trying to take him into custody for selling loose cigarettes.
It's been almost three years since Garner died during a confrontation with police on Staten Island, but the Justice Dept. still can't tell Garner's family whether or not the officers involved will face federal charges.
The unproductive Brooklyn meeting comes just three weeks short of July 17 - the third anniversary of Garner's death on Staten Island. "It is frustrating. Other cases have been solved that came after us and we are still waiting", Carr said.
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She also has dedicated her life to helping the wrongly convicted through work with the Innocence Project and other organizations. Another photo shows a padlock the couple attached to a bridge in Paris with their initials - AMK and CGR - written on it.
Eric Garner's widow Esaw Snipes, left, and his daughter Erica and son Eric Garner Jr. leave a Brooklyn hotel after meeting with Department of Justice officials regarding a civil rights charge, Wednesday, June 21, 2017, in NY.
But the government, which arranged the meeting, did confirm that the investigation remains active for the first time since the inauguration of President Donald Trump and the installation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions-who has sought to scale back President Barack Obama's oversight initiatives on local police departments.
"The particular representatives working on this case made a commitment to see it through to the end", said Moore.
DOJ prosecutors have been presenting evidence to grand jurors in Brooklyn federal court in hopes of charging NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo with civil rights violations. He later was pronounced dead at a hospital. The medical examiner ruled the cause of death was "compression of neck (choke hold), compression of chest and prone positioning during physical restraint by police".
Garner's death sparked angry protests from people complaining about the treatment of black men and boys at the hands of white police officers, and his dying words became a slogan for the Black Lives Matter movement.
A Staten Island grand jury did not return an indictment.
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