“We didn’t choose for my father to be murdered, but we were left to pick up the pieces after,' writes Eric Garner's daughter, Emerald Garner, in her new book.
. And while you haven’t even fully grieved, you’re now linked to other cases, and you only have the bond that your loved one was also murdered by the police.
The surviving family members of a victim of police brutality should all automatically get all of the counseling and therapy they need free of charge for as long as they need it. That should be automatic. Erica was different. She wanted to let the world know exactly how she felt. She wanted to be open with her emotions. She wanted to wear her heart on her sleeve, and for everyone to be fully aware of what she was going through, struggling with, and dealing with. She wanted to rally the troops and storm the castle, so to speak. She wanted to scream from the mountaintops with a megaphone.
My other brother Emery, the youngest, just digressed completely. He went into babyism. He couldn’t deal with it at all without breaking down. And that was the same for all of us. We just presented it differently. He needed someone to help push him along because the world doesn’t stop just because you have stopped. The world keeps going. And he needed someone to guide him through managing all of that.
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