Étiqueté : Garner

Erica Garner, a prominent activist against police brutality, whose father’s death at the hands of US officers spurred mass protests, has died after suffering a heart attack. The 27-year-old passed away on Saturday morning after being hospitalised last week, a member of her team posted on her official Twitter account. « She passed away this morning.…

Rights groups, artists and politicians have rallied around Erica Garner, an activist and writer whose father’s death at the hands of police ignited huge protests, as she fights for her life in hospital. The 27-year-old daughter of Eric Garner, the New Yorker victim of a police chokehold in July 2014, was hospitalised on December 24…