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Eric Garner

Racial Justice Activist Erica Garner, Daughter of Eric Garner, Dies at Age 27

Erica Garner

Erica Garner 'Showing Her Fighting Spirit' as Family Holds Onto Hope for Recovery

Jake Johnson, staff writer

"Please continue to pray hard for Erica and pray for her family and kids just as much."

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'She's Fighting': Erica Garner in Critical Condition After Suffering Heart Attack

Jake Johnson, staff writer

"Pray for her."

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Justice Department Overhauls Team in Eric Garner Police Killing Case

Nadia Prupis, staff writer

DOJ replaces several key agents, potentially giving jump-start to 'long-stalled...

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NYPD Sued for 'Gratuitous and Unlawful' Sound Cannons at Eric Garner Protests

Elizabeth Warren: 'Black Lives, Black Citizens, Black Families Matter'

To Prevent Police Brutality, Overhaul Police Culture: Report

'Still Can't Breathe': One Year After Eric Garner's Death, Justice Remains Elusive

'Money Isn't Justice': Eric Garner Family Calls for Real Accountability

'Distrust Reinforced' as NY Judge Rules Against Releasing Details of Eric Garner Grand Jury

Edits to Police Brutality Wikipedia Pages Trace Back to NYPD

Obama Task Force Calls for Significant Changes to Policing in America

NYPD Officer Indicted in Shooting of Akai Gurley: Reports

'Accountability, Not Surveillance': Group Raises Flags Over Police Body Cameras

Taking Back the Streets and Their Stories, Thousands Reclaim MLK Day

Invoking Radical Spirit, Racial Justice Movement Aims to #ReclaimMLK

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#CrimingWhileWhite/#AliveWhileBlack

As the feds plan to investigate the Eric Garner travesty "to heal the breakdown in trust," let them check out #CrimingWhileWhite - whites tell of sins safely committed under the cloak of white privilege - and #AliveWhileBlack - blacks tell the flip dark side of the story. Black - "Cops pulled me over (for) going 45 in a fast lane - speed limit was 50" to white - "My buddies wanted more oil $, so I pretended there were WMDs in Iraq & oversaw the murder of 150,000 ppl" - we are two nations.

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NYCLU

NYCLU Will Appeal Garner Grand Jury Transcript Decision

New York Civil Liberties Union

Garner Anniversary Underscores Need for Vast Culture Shift, Smart Criminal Justice Policies

NAACP

NAACP Statement on the Indictment of NYPD Officer Peter Liang

NYCLU

Tomorrow: NYCLU to Argue for Release of Garner Grand Jury Records

New York Civil Liberties Union

NYCLU Provides Body Camera Guidelines to White House Policing Task Force

Color of Change

ColorOfChange.Org Submits Thousands of Comments to Police Task Force and Asks President to Take Definitive Action in Letter

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Views

Steven Singer

The Best Way To Honor Tamir Rice is by Reforming Our Broken Justice System

Terrance Heath

2015: The Year That Black Lives Mattered, At Last

Steven Choi

A Year Since Eric Garner's Death: Policing, Black Lives Matter, and Immigrant Rights

Amy Goodman

The American Dream: Living to 18

Nathalie Baptiste

Nonviolence for Whom?

Tim Karr

Your Right to Record: Protected by Law, Disrespected by Law Enforcement

Aquil Basheer

America’s Human-on-Human Violence Problem Stops Now

Cathy Cohen, Danielle Allen

The New Civil Rights Movement Doesn’t Need An MLK

Ezekial Edwards

Walter Scott’s Killing Is a Direct Result of the Current State of Policing in America Today

Katrina vanden Heuvel

A National Cry for Criminal Justice Reform

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