 In July, Eric Garner died in New York City, after a New York City Police Department officer put him in a banned chokehold while arresting him.Garner's death has been cited as one of several police killings of African Americans that sparked the Black Lives Matter movement.In August, during Labor Day weekend, Black Lives Matter organized a "Freedom Ride", that brought more than 500 African-Americans from across the United States into Ferguson, Missouri, to support the work being done on the ground by local organizations.