Chokehold decision criticized by rights leaders

Lack of indictment in Garner's death condemned as 'a travesty of justice'

Civil rights leaders decried the grand jury decision not to charge a white New York City police officer in the chokehold death of a black man as thousands of people united in anger and disbelief took to the streets for a second night.

The case of Eric Garner - combined with the decision by a grand jury last week not to charge the white officer who shot and killed unarmed black 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri - stirred a national conversation about race, police training and the grand jury process. Unlike Brown's shooting, Garner's arrest was captured on videotape.