Emerald Garner, whose father Eric Garner was killed in a police chokehold, visited the New York City Police Memorial to mourn the death of the two police officers killed last weekend.
“I just had to come out and let their family know that we stand with them, and I’m going to send my prayers and condolences to all the families who are suffering through this tragedy,” she said in an interview with ABC News.
“I was never anti-police,” Garner clarified. “Like I said before, I have family that’s in the NYPD that I’ve grown up around, family reunions and everything so my family you know, we’re not anti-police.”
The shooting of the officers has been used by some to denounce the movement against police brutality that rallied around the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown.
“It didn’t have anything to do with race or anything–it was a mental health crisis,” said Emerald Garner, “and he was dealing with [it] personally and didn’t have the proper way to express his anger.”
Watch her interview with ABC below:
