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🗓️ 2 November 2022
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Emerald Garner wrote this memoir to honor her father, Eric Garner, as she feels that many people forget about the family and how it feels to grieve after experiencing trauma. She has been leading the voice for change ever since the wake of her father’s death. Her powerful and vulnerable essays call for both the transformation of the justice system and police force, as well as accountability for those in power.
One of her achievements includes getting the Eric Garner Anti-Chokehold Act approved. On June 8, 2020, both houses of the New York State Assembly passed this act. It criminalizes the use of chokeholds, or aggravated strangulation, of any kind by police officers in the state of New York. The act “would occur when a police officer or peace officer obstructs breathing or blood circulation by using a chokehold or similar restraint, thereby causing physical injury or death to another person." This would be a class C felony, punishable by up to 15 years in prison.
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0:00.0 | I don't know what those white people in this country feel, |
0:05.0 | but I can only include what they feel from the state of their institution. |
0:10.0 | Now, this is the evidence. |
0:14.0 | You want me to make an act of faith, risking myself, my wife, my woman, my sister, my children, |
0:20.0 | on some idealism which you assure me exists in America, risking myself, my wife, my woman, my sister, my children, |
0:24.6 | on some idealism which you assure me exists in America, |
0:25.8 | which I have never seen. |
0:34.6 | So today, we have a guest who I think is just amazing. |
0:36.6 | I've been listening to her book, |
0:40.1 | and the way in which she tells her story is so powerful and it speaks for so many. |
0:43.7 | She is Emerald Garner, the daughter of Eric Garner. |
0:49.2 | When you think of the words, I Can't Breathe and his story, |
0:53.3 | she is his daughter. Hi, Emerald. Thanks so much for |
0:57.4 | joining us today. Hello, and thank you so much for having me. Absolutely. We're honored to have you. |
1:04.3 | As I always do, when we interview African American guests, I always start it off with who are you? Because even in your book, |
1:13.8 | you talk about how people just presume so much about who you are and what you have and what your |
1:19.7 | intentions were. And you were a person before all of this happened and you are a person now. |
1:26.8 | And so I just want us to give space to know who is Emerald Garner. |
1:33.1 | Well, there's a lot to me. |
1:35.1 | And I always say activist last. |
1:37.6 | The first thing I lead with is that, you know, I'm a woman. |
1:40.8 | Yes. |
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