'She's Fighting': Eric Garner's Activist Daughter Hospitalized

Erica Garner, the 27-year-old civil rights activist and daughter of slain Black man Eric Garner, has been hospitalized after having a heart attack Monday, local U.S. media confirmed Tuesday.

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"Right now, the family is just praying and asking for everyone to keep her in their prayers," Erica’s mother Esaw Snipes-Garner said in an interview with the New York Daily News. "She's fighting." Garner, a mother of two, gave birth to her youngest child in August and the pregnancy put a strain on her heart, according to Snipes-Garner.

Over the past few years Garner has been an outspoken activist against police brutality against Black and non-white people in the United States after her father was suffocated to death when a policeman put him in a chokehold in 2014.

A video of the incident went viral in which Eric Garner is heard saying “I can’t breath” as the white police officer continued to choke him. Garner’s words became an iconic slogan for the anti-police brutality movement Black Lives Matter.

In December 2014, a grand jury decided not to indict the officer who killed him, despite the New York City medical examiner's classification of Garner's death as a homicide.

Garner made headlines in 2016 during the U.S. presidential campaigns when she endorsed former candidate Senator Bernie Sanders, a self-proclaimed socialist democrat who vowed to address racism within law enforcement in the country.

Garner and her young daughter Alyssa were featured in a three-minute Sanders campaign ad where she talked about how the death of her father forced her to become more involved in the civil rights fight. "I'm never giving up," she said. "I'm never gonna forget, and I don't want the world to forget."