Black Lives Matter activist, 27, Erica Garner dies after suffering heart attack
The Black Lives Matter activist Erica Garner has died, after a week in hospital following a heart attack. She was 27 Garner was the daughter of Eric Garner, a man who died in a police chokehold in New York in 2014.
Announcing Garner’s death in New York on Saturday morning, the Rev Al Sharpton said she was “a warrior to the end” and said “her heart was broken when she didn’t get justice … the [heart] attack just dealt with the pieces that were left.”
Four months ago, Garner gave birth to a son. She also had an eight-year-old daughter.
Eric Garner, who was 43, died in Staten Island in July 2014 after a white police officer subdued him with an illegal chokehold, during an arrest over the alleged sale of untaxed loose cigarettes. He also suffered from asthma. His last words, “I can’t breathe”, became a slogan for activists protesting police brutality against African Americans.
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