Erica Garner, daughter of slain cigarette seller Eric Garner, says comments she made about Rev. Al Sharpton in a video released by conservative activist James O’Keefe‘s Project Veritas were “taken out of context, edited and released to partisan outlets for nefarious reasons.” The New York Post published the video today, with a story titled, “Garner’s Kid On Sharpton: […]

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      UPDATED 01/21/15, 9:22 a.m. EST: Erica Garner directly addressed the memorial incident after her weekly march Tuesday evening. “They burned it down, but they can never wash the blood that they spilled on 202 Bay Street, August 17th, 2014,” she said next to the site, reasserting her belief that someone intentionally set the memorial […]

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Erica Garner (pictured far right), daughter of Eric Garner, held a march through Staten Island Thursday evening. It was the latest in a bi-weekly vigil she has lead since her father’s death. RELATED: Former Eric Garner Lawyer Will Not Face Charges For Rape Allegations “I want people who [are] protesting everywhere to know that this is what […]

In response to Eric Garner’s (pictured)  untimely death last summer at the hands of White New York City police officer Daniel Pantaleo, the Garner family has released “This Ends Today,” a rap cut on the “I Can’t Breathe” album, according to the New York Daily News. RELATED: NewsOne’s Eric Garner Coverage The haunting nearly four-minute song was recorded by Garner’s […]

Less than a week after two NYPD officers were ambushed and killed, one of Eric Garner’s daughters posted the address of a Staten Island police officer who was on the scene when her father died in a chokehold. The tweet hit the Internet on Christmas Day and received about 500 views before it was removed, according […]