A warning.

There are descriptions of violence in this episode.

July 17, 2014.

Almost six years ago now.

It probably started off as a pretty normal summer day for Eric Garner.

Garner was dressed in a great t-shirt and tan cargo shorts, trying to figure out a good

place to eat lunch with his friend when the police rolled up.

His friend began filming.

Outside of a Staten Island beauty supply store, the cops accused Garner of selling looses.

Single, untack cigarettes.

The encounter escalated.

The officer reached up from behind Garner, who stood at six feet two inches tall, put

his arm around his neck and pulled him to the ground.

Garner cried out.

I can't breathe.

Garner said those words eleven times before his death.

It became a rallying cry of protest.

His activists denounced the police killings of black people, year after year, in city after

city.

And then, on Memorial Day of this year, those words echoed once again.

George Floyd said he couldn't breathe more than twenty times, pressed under the knee

of a Minneapolis police officer.

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