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Chokehold victim Eric Garner’s daughter Erica ripped the Clinton campaign on Twitter Thursday over emails in which the Democratic nominee’s staffers discussed using her late father in an op-ed on gun violence.
“I’m troubled by the revelation that you and this campaign actually discussed ‘using’ Eric Garner … Why would you want to ‘use’ my dad?” Garner tweeted along with a link to emails released by WikiLeaks.
“These people will co opt anything to push their agenda. Police violence is not the same as gun violence,” she wrote.
Garner’s anger was triggered when she read hacked tweets released by WikiLeaks.
“I know we have Erica Garner issues but we don’t want to mention Erica at all? I can see her coming after us for leaving him out of the piece,” campaign spokesman Nick Merrill wrote in March, as the campaign was the op-ed to run in The Daily News.
“Eric Garner not included because not killed by gun violence,” staffer Maya Harris replied.
“That’s a pretty good point,” Merrill answered.
The op-ed never mentioned Garner’s death.
“I’m glad you had Maya on your team to explain why you won’t be USING my dad in you f—–g gun violence piece… Black woman saved your a–,” Garner added.
She also tweeted that there is a difference between police violence against civilians and gun violence in general — and bashed Team Clinton over the issue.
“These people will co opt anything to push their agenda,” she wrote in another Twitter message. “Police violence is not the same as gun violence.”
The emails did not explain what “issues” the campaign had with Erica Garner.
Eric Garner died after being put in a chokehold by an NYPD cop on Staten Island in July of 2014.
U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch this week announced she was appointing Justice Department investigators to take over a civil rights probe that she started in Brooklyn, which has failed to find criminal charges to bring against chokehold cop Daniel Pantaleo in the Garner case.




