Erica Garner

The Katie Halper Show

Katie Halper

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4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2017

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Here' my oped on this: https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/mayor-de-blasio-not-late-honor-erica-garner-legacy-article-1.3761825 I interviewed Erica Garner a few weeks ago and was planning to release her interview next week or the week after. But on December 24, I learned that Erica had been hospitalized and put into a medically induced coma after suffering a heart attack. She's 27 and has two kids and is the daughter of Eric Garner, who was murdered by the NYPD in Staten Island. He was placed in a choke hold despite saying "I can't breath," 11 times. This episode consists of two interviews, done a week apart, I conducted with Erica over the phone. She talked about her demands for DiBlasio, her hopes for the future and the work she's doing. She also shared insights and stories about her father, who she called a gentle giant. I will update this when I hear any updates about Erica. Someone who tweeted out that they work with Erica has been has been tweeting updates about her condition at es_snipes.

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0:00.0	Hello welcome to the Katie helper show. This is a not so typical episode of the show. This is a very I guess sensitive episode time sensitive and also sensitive
0:12.7	episode because it's with Erica Garner.
0:15.2	She's the daughter of Eric Garner, who was murdered by the NYPD.
0:19.6	And I interviewed her a couple weeks ago. I was going to release it shortly, but there's some really sad news which is that she's
0:26.7	in the hospital, she suffered a heart attack and is in a medically induced coma.
0:32.3	I interviewed Erica twice, once the first week of December
0:36.2	and once the week after.
0:37.7	She had approached me because she wanted to talk
0:39.7	about the three-year anniversary
0:41.6	of the non-indictment of her father's killer on
0:44.9	December 3rd 2017 and of course Eric Garner was the unarmed black man who said
0:52.0	I can't breathe 11 times after he was placed in a
0:55.0	chokehold by a police officer on Staten Island. The NYPD were not indicted but
1:01.4	alone convicted so I want to take this opportunity to release the
1:04.5	episode because what Erica talks about is so important to Erica and it's an issue that she's spent her life fighting for.
1:13.6	And Erica Garner has dedicated her life to honoring her father's memory
1:18.9	and also to organizing against police brutality and impunity. And I think it's really important and moving
1:24.8	and she says some really harsh things about Blasio that are pretty deserved it I'd say
1:29.2	and she also has some really great insights into organizing and how people can honor her father's
1:35.7	memory and impact the lives of others.
1:38.3	I'm not including an intro and outro as me and Gabe.
1:41.5	We're not obviously charging for any bonus content or anything.
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