US civil rights activist Erica Garner dies at 27

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Erica Garner, a prominent activist in opposition to police brutality, whose father’s loss of life by the palms of US officers spurred mass protests, has died after struggling a coronary heart attack.

The 27-one year-mature passed away on Saturday morning after being hospitalised final week, a member of her crew posted on her professional Twitter tale.

« She passed away this morning. The reports are true. We didn’t deserve her, » the crew member wrote on Saturday.

Following her hospitalisation on December 24, Garner went into a coma.

Three days later, on December 27, a member of her crew acknowledged she had suffered « major mind damage from a scarcity of oxygen while in cardiac arrest ».

Erica’s father, Eric, a forty three-one year-mature unlit American, died in July 2014 after a Contemporary York City police officer held him in a chokehold.

His final phrases, as he used to be being pinned to the bottom, had been, « I will be capable to’t breathe. »

Considered hundreds of thousands of instances, the video of his loss of life helped spur huge protests in opposition to police brutality and anti-unlit racism within the US.

An activist and writer, Erica had turned into an outspoken snarl within the fight in opposition to police brutality.

Thousands of oldsters despatched her properly-needs over the previous week, at the side of US politicians, artists, civil rights activists and others.

After news of Garner’s loss of life broke, many took to social media to pay tribute to her.

On Twitter, reverend and civil rights activist Jesse Jackson acknowledged he despatched « prayers and condolences to the family of warrior of justice, #EricaGarner ».

Shaun King, a prominent US journalist and activist, acknowledged on Saturday that « we’re much less this capacity that loss ».

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