"I can't breathe!" Her son's tragic death was nationwide news four years ago — and she's making sure that the demand for justice against police brutality is never silenced.
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00:00Don't think that you are exempt, because we don't know when it's going to come knocking on our doors, and when it do, it's too late.
00:30If it takes the rest of my life, I'm going to fight for justice for my son, and not only my son, for other people's sons.
00:44Even though my son said he couldn't breathe 11 times, 11 times he said he couldn't breathe, and they chose not to indict, where is the justice?
00:56The chokehold has been banned for decades. Did they follow it? No. Did they stand accountable for it? No. So this is what we want today, accountability.
01:08What I'm trying to say is that this is not a game, it's not politics with me and my family, this is serious. My son Eric Garner's life mattered.
01:27I was able to turn sorrow into a strategy, and mourning into a movement, because I made a promise to my son to be his voice, and the voice of the voiceless and the nameless, because there are plenty of people out there that's hurting just like I am.
01:46We are looking for justice for our children.