Powerful video: Eric Garner’s daughter supports Bernie Sanders because he’s a protester, like she is now

Erica Garner is the daughter of Eric Garner. In this powerful video clip, Ms. Garner tells about the impact her dad’s murder has had on her family’s life and her own life. She has had to explain to her young daughter Elissa that the racism she’s learning about in school, which Rosa Parks and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. fought against, is:

… not really over … I’m a activist … My Dad’s name was 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 was loved daily … Elissa misses my dad. She tells me, “Are you OK mom, do you Miss PopPop?” She wishes he was there so her mom wouldn’t be sad any more.

I’m just trying to get the truth out there to tell his side of the story … For a whole year, I’ve protested every Tuesday and Thursday … I’m speaking out, me being his daughter … I don’t want the world to forget what happened to my dad …

I’m behind anyone who’s going to listen and speak up for us and I think we need to believe in a leader like Bernie Sanders…

Good report on this video endorsement ad by US Uncut.

Hat tip to Kiburi Tucker for the nice find.