Eric Garner's family expressed frustration with the Justice Department's progress Wednesday after they met to discuss the investigation into Garner's chokehold death at the hands of police in 2014.
Garner's family said DOJ prosecutors told them and the Rev. Al Sharpton that the investigation is continuing.
That drew condemnation from Garner's mother, Gwen Carr, about the case's pace.
"We shouldn't have to wait like this," Carr said at a news conference. "Other cases have been solved that came after us."
Garner's family said they came to the meeting with the prosecutors from Washington, who had taken over the case, hoping to learn if there would be an indictment of the police officer who killed Garner.
Earlier this year, law enforcement sources told NY1 a federal grand jury was hearing testimony in the case.
The Justice Department is trying to decide whether to bring federal civil rights charges against NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo.
He put Eric Garner in a deadly chokehold, a move banned by the NYPD, while trying to arrest him for illegally selling loose cigarettes in July 2014. Garner died after saying multiple times he could not breathe.
The city medical examiner had ruled Garner's death a homicide.
The federal investigation began after a grand jury on Staten Island declined to indict Pantaleo.
Garner's family said they are hopeful Pantaleo will be indicted because the prosecutors are veterans and have worked with the National Action Network on other police cases around the country, and have convicted other officers on civil rights charges.
The family is calling on DOJ to indict all of the officers who were involved with trying to arrest Garner, not just Pantaleo.
The Justice Department did not comment on the meeting.