Nearly a year after Eric Garner died following a police chokehold on Staten Island, a New York lawmaker is pushing to ban the tactic under federal law. Congressman Hakeem Jeffries said Monday that he would introduce the Excessive Use of Force Prevention Act on Capitol Hill on Tuesday. Garner's mother, Gwen Carr, joined him for the announcement. She said she hopes the federal bill will hold police more responsible if they use excessive force.

"You have murderers, rapists, everybody out here, they get their day in court. My son, he won't get his day in court because he's gone now," Carr said.

In the video recording of his arrest, Garner said "I can't breathe" eleven times before he died. Chokeholds are banned by the NYPD, but the officer was not indicted. 

"The right to breathe is a human right. It's a biological right. And no one has the right to take that right from us," said Kirsten John Foy of the National Action Network.

Under Jeffries' bill, police chokeholds would be considered a federal civil rights violation.