Eric Garner

Erica Garner, activist and daughter of NYPD police brutality victim Eric Garner, dead at 27.

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27-year-old civil rights activist Erica Garner has died

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The activism of Erica Garner

Right up until her death on Dec. 30, 2017, Erica Garner - the daughter of chokehold victim Eric Garner, who died in 2014 at the hands of officer …

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The oldest daughter of Eric Garner, the black man whose dying calls of “I can’t breathe” after he was placed in a chokehold by a police officer …

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Daughter of man who died after police chokehold hospitalized

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