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Erica Garner: This is everything that I have: my family:
Family should be important to everyone.
Mostly, I like being a mother.
Alyssa — she's six years old.
That's my baby, my only child.
She likes to read me books,
sit down and talk with me about her school.
Alyssa: Bet there's a lot of sand in our car.
Erica: Recently she just learned about Rosa Parks,
and Martin Luther King.
She asked me "Did Rosa Parks not give up her
seat for a white man?", and I said yes.
She said, "But those are in the old days, right mommy?"
And I had to explain to her that it's not really over.
This is what mommy is, I'm a activist.
And the same thing Martin Luther King was,
he fought for our rights, that's the same thing I'm doing
in honor of her Pop-pop.
My dad's name is Eric Garner.
No one gets to see their parent's last moments,
and I was able to see my dad die on national TV.
They don't know what they took from us.
He wasn't just someone that no one cared for him,
or no one loved him.
He was loved dearly.
Alyssa misses my dad.
She tells me "Are you okay mom?"
"Do you miss Pop-pop?"
She wishes he was here.
So her mom wouldn't be sad anymore.
I'm just trying to get the truth out there
to tell his side of the story.
He was being a loving, caring man that he was,
and he was murdered.
Every Tuesday
for a whole year,
I've protested in every Tuesday and Thursday.
I feel like a representative for people
throughout this whole nation because
I'm doing this, I'm speaking out, me being his daughter.
And that's what I wanna do, I just wanna tell my truths.
I'm never giving up.
I'm never gonna forget.
And I don't want the world to forget
what happened to my dad.
Our people die for this.
Martin Luther King died for this.
Malcolm X died for this, and who were they?
They was protesters.
I'm behind anyone who's gonna listen and speak up for us,
and I think we need to believe in a leader
like Bernie Sanders.
Bernie Sanders: It is not acceptable to me that we have seen
young black men walk down streets in this country,
be beaten and be killed unjustly.
[Protesters] I can't breathe!
Erica: There's no other person
that's speaking about this.
People are dying, this is real.
This is not TV.
We need a president that's gonna talk about it.
Bernie: The African American community knows
that on any given day, some innocent person
like Sanda Bland can get into a car
and then three days later she could end up dead in jail.
Erica: I believe Bernie Sanders is a protester.
Bernie: When a police officer breaks the law,
that officer must be held accountable.
Erica: He's not scared to go up against
the Criminal Justice system, he's not scared.
Bernie: I want to see an America where when
young black men walk down the street,
they will not be harassed by police officers.
They will not be killed, they will not be shot.
Erica Garner: And that's why I'm for Bernie.