A Reminder Of How Heart-Wrenching Eric Garner’s Last Words Were
They were heard in a video that went viral, plastered across the front page of newspapers and echoed through the chants of hundreds of protesters who mourned his death.
They were Eric Garner’s last words — the words the 43-year-old Staten Island man muttered while he was placed in a chokehold by NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo, which eventually led to Garner’s untimely death: “I can’t breathe.”
