Erica Garner was an outspoken activist for social justice and police reform, whose father, an African American, was killed in a chokehold by a white policeman. His death and court ruling sparked a wave of protests across the US.
Erica Garner passed away in a New York hospital Saturday morning after a heart attack. The 27-year-old was the oldest daughter of an icon of the Black Lives Matter movement, Eric Garner.
In Garner’s Twitter account, her family and friends asked that she would be remembered as “mother, daughter, sister, aunt” with a heart “bigger than the world.
