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2017-12-31 -Obits-
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Erica Garner, Black Lives Matter activist, dies aged 27
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[THEGUARDIAN] Black Lives Matter activist Erica Garner has died, after a week in hospital following a heart attack. She was 27. Garner was the daughter of Eric Garner, a man who died in a police chokehold in New York in 2014.
Among tributes, Senator Bernie Sanders
 ...The only openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords. He ran for the 2016 nomination for president, to be cheated by Hillary, then went back to being a socialist...
said that although Garner "didn’t ask to be an activist, she responded to the personal tragedy of seeing her father die ... by becoming a leading proponent for criminal justice reform and for an end to police brutality".
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Announcing Garner’s death in New York on Saturday morning, the Rev civil rights hustler Al Sharpton
...Tawana Brawley's spiritual advisor...
said she was "a warrior to the end" and said "her heart was broken when she didn’t get justice ... the [heart] attack just dealt with the pieces that were left."
Four months ago, Garner gave birth to a son who was named for her father. She also had an eight-year-old daughter. In a recent interview with the webshow Like it or Not, she talked about the difficulties of life as a parent and an activist. "I’m struggling right now from the stress of everything," she said, "because the system, it beats you down."
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