Amy Goodman
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Erica Garner was “Unbought and Unbossed” in Push for Justice After Her Father Died in NYPD Chokehold
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January 3, 2018
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23:33Now PlayingWe remember Black Lives Matter activist Erica Garner, who died Saturday after she fell into a coma following an asthmainduced heart attack. She was just 27 years old. Erica helped lead the struggle for justice for her father, Eric Garner, who was killed when police officers in Staten Island wrestled him to the ground, pinned him down and applied a fatal chokehold in 2014. His final words were “I can’t breathe,” which he repeated 11 times. In August, Erica gave birth to her second child, a boy named after her late father. Doctors say the pregnancy strained her heart. We feature Erica in her own words on Democracy Now!, and we speak with two people who were close to herThe Intercept’s Shaun King and The Root’s Kirsten West Savali, whose piece is headlined “Erica Garner’I’m in This Fight Forever.’”
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