As taping of ABC’s “The President & the People: A National Conversation” concluded Thursday, a very emotional audience member Erica Gardner, Black Lives Matter activist and daughter of Eric Gardner, exploded from her chair.
Eric Gardner was the New York “chokehold victim” who died after being restrained by an NYPD officer attempting to arrest him. The officer was subsequently cleared of all charges by a Staten Island grand jury.
“I was railroaded! I was railroaded by ABC on the two-year anniversary of my father’s death!” Erica was heard yelling immediately after the meeting, according to CNN Money. “That’s what I have to do? A black person has to yell to be heard?”
Garner then took to social media to voice her rage, and called the event “a farce.”
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Yo this town hall that presidential town hall #abc arranged is a farce. It was nothing short of full exploitation of Black pain and grief
— officialERICA GARNER (@es_snipes) July 14, 2016
They lied to me and my family to get us to travel to DC to participate. Taking time away from things I had planned to remember my father.
— officialERICA GARNER (@es_snipes) July 14, 2016
they promised me that if ANY questions got asked of #POTUS that mine would be asked… They lied to both me and @osope to get us there.
— officialERICA GARNER (@es_snipes) July 14, 2016
I should have known something was wrong when they had little Cameron Sterling standing with the Lt. Gov of Texas while he denounced BLM
— officialERICA GARNER (@es_snipes) July 14, 2016
I need all of you to know that this #ABC town hall that will air at 8pm is a sham. They shut out ALL real and hard questions
— officialERICA GARNER (@es_snipes) July 14, 2016
I speak for myself and many others from the movement for Black lives when I say we wereused n I don’t endorse what happened today on #abc !
— officialERICA GARNER (@es_snipes) July 14, 2016
I went there trying to represent THE PEOPLE… #ABC wanted ratings even if it meant they had to profit from Black misery and oppression.
— officialERICA GARNER (@es_snipes) July 14, 2016
I was not upset about not speaking with #POTUS . i was upset because #ABC lied and used me, my pain, and suffering for ratings.
— officialERICA GARNER (@es_snipes) July 15, 2016
But with or without Garner’s questions, President Obama still found that at least somne of the blame for the murders of five Dallas police officers fell on the shoulders of law enforcement itself.
“The roots of the problems we saw this week date back not just decades — date back centuries,” he said.
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