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Article snippet: Erica Garner, the daughter of Eric Garner who became an outspoken activist against police brutality after her father’s death at the hands of a New York police officer, died on Saturday, according to her mother. She was 27. Ms. Garner had been placed in a medically induced coma last week after an asthma episode precipitated a major heart attack. She was being treated at Woodhull Medical and Mental Health Center in Brooklyn, and died there. No official cause of death has been given. “The only thing I can say is that she was a warrior,” Ms. Garner’s mother, Esaw Snipes, said on Saturday. “She fought the good fight. This is just the first fight in 27 years she lost.” Ms. Garner became a central figure in the charged conversation about race and the use of force by the police after a New York Police Department officer placed her father into an unauthorized chokehold on Staten Island in 2014 while responding to complaints he was selling untaxed cigarettes. As Mr. Garner, who also suffered from asthma, was being choked by the officer, Daniel Pantaleo, he repeated the words “I can’t breathe” 11 times — a phrase that became a rallying cry for the Black Lives Matter movement and other activists. An autopsy by the city’s medical examiner ruled Mr. Garner’s death a homicide. No charges were brought against Officer Pantaleo. Ms. Garner was initially apprehensive about becoming a face of the movement for police accountability, according to her website. But she became outspoken,... Link to the full article to read more