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Erica Garner dead: 'I can't breathe' police brutality campaigner and daughter of Eric Garner dies aged 27 | Erica Garner dead: 'I can't breathe' police brutality campaigner and daughter of Eric Garner dies aged 27 |
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Erica Garner, whose father Eric Garner died in 2014 after being put in a chokehold by police, has died at the age of 27 after suffering a heart attack. | |
Mr Garner's death was caught on tape as he told Staten Island, New York police who were arresting him: "I can't breathe." | Mr Garner's death was caught on tape as he told Staten Island, New York police who were arresting him: "I can't breathe." |
Ms Garner became a prominent activist in the years since, advocating for the safety of the black community and others from police brutality. | Ms Garner became a prominent activist in the years since, advocating for the safety of the black community and others from police brutality. |
Family members told the New York Daily News that Ms Garner had suffered a heart attack a week ago. Her brain had been starved for oxygen following the cardiac incident and she slipped into a coma from which she never woke. | |
Doctors had declared her brain dead a few days ago as a person identified as a coworker took over the activists Twitter account to update followers on Ms Garner's condition. | |
“She was a warrior, she was a fighter and we didn’t pull the plug on her,” Esaw Snipes, Ms Garner's mother, said. | “She was a warrior, she was a fighter and we didn’t pull the plug on her,” Esaw Snipes, Ms Garner's mother, said. |
Ms Snipes said her daughter "left on her own terms.” | Ms Snipes said her daughter "left on her own terms.” |
In the wake of her father's July 2014 death, Ms Garner led protests and the video spurred the formation of the Black Lives Matter movement. | |
Mr Garner, a father of six, had been unarmed when New York City Police officer Daniel Pantaleo choked him for resisting arrest after selling "loosies," or single cigarettes, outside of a store on Staten Island. | |
Mr Garner had asthma and told officers on the scene 11 times that he was unable to breathe. | |
Mr Pantaleo was stripped of his badge, gun, and put on desk duty while the department banned the use of a chokehold while arresting people. | |
He was never criminally charged with Mr Garner's death and continues to serve as an officer. | |
Ms Garner's activism led to meeting former President Barack Obama and campaigning for erstwhile presidential candidate and current Senator Bernie Sanders last year. | |
She, like her father, also had asthma and family members said that is what triggered the attack. However, this was not Ms Garner's first heart attack. | |
Just four months she gave birth to her son, named after her father. Doctors said Ms Garner's post-partum attack was a result of the pregnancy putting too much stress on her already-enlarged heart. | |
There has been an outpouring of support for Ms Garner's family and her activism on social media following the announcement. |
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