--- title: Bernie Sanders Endorsed by Eric Garner's Daughter description: Bernie Sanders released a video on Thursday featuring the daughter of Eric Garner, who was killed in a chokehold by New York City police canonical: https://time.com/4218694/bernie-sanders-erica-garner-endorsement/ author: Katie Reilly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-02-12T00:19:48.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:41:57.591Z article:section: Politics og:title: Eric Garner's Daughter Endorses Bernie Sanders in New Video og:description: Campaign aims to reach more black voters. og:url: https://time.com/4218694/bernie-sanders-erica-garner-endorsement/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltddf9942a057a6442/69887d62cf40a8bec4c41ef8/erica-garner-protest.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: &lt;&gt; on December 11, 2014 in New York City. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Eric Garner's Daughter Endorses Bernie Sanders in New Video twitter:description: Campaign aims to reach more black voters. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltddf9942a057a6442/69887d62cf40a8bec4c41ef8/erica-garner-protest.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Eric Garner's Daughter Endorses Bernie Sanders in New Video > Sponsored content. 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Brief is free at time.com/newsletters. ## Video: Vote TOGETHER For Bernie Sanders [Watch (HLS stream): Vote TOGETHER For Bernie Sanders](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/qWCHpfQh.m3u8) (1:00)  _Published 2016-02-11_  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Feb 12, 2016 12:19 AM UTC  Erica Garner, daughter of Eric Garner, leads a march of people on Dec. 11, 2014. Erica Garner, daughter of Eric Garner, leads a march of people on Dec. 11, 2014. Andrew Burton/Getty Images  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Feb 12, 2016 12:19 AM UTC Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders [released an online video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Syln8IkOIqc&feature=youtu.be) Thursday featuring the daughter of Eric Garner, a 43-year-old unarmed father of six who was [killed in a chokehold by New York City police officers](http://time.com/3016326/eric-garner-video-police-chokehold-death/) in 2014. The video is an example of attempts by the Democratic presidential candidate to reach out to black voters as the race heads to South Carolina and Nevada, where there are large populations of blacks and Latinos. In South Carolina, black voters make up more than [60% of the primary electorate](http://time.com/4184135/democratic-debate-charleston-analysis/). “I’m behind anyone who’s going to listen and speak up for us, and I think we need to believe in a leader like Bernie Sanders,” Erica Garner says in the video. “There’s no other person that’s speaking about this. People are dying. This is real. This is not TV. We need a president that’s going to talk about it.” Gwen Carr, Eric Garner’s mother, [endorsed Clinton](https://www.hillaryclinton.com/feed/eric-garner-was-my-son/) last month. Sanders, who met with the Rev. Al Sharpton Wednesday, also recently released an ad in which he calls for unifying America across racial lines. “If we do not allow them to divide us up by race, by sexual orientation, by gender … by whether or not we were born in America or whether we’re immigrants, when we stand together as white and black and Hispanic and gay and straight and woman and man … we will transform America,” he says in the ad. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4218694/bernie-sanders-erica-garner-endorsement/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4218694/bernie-sanders-erica-garner-endorsement/"},"headline":"Eric Garner's Daughter Endorses Bernie Sanders in New Video","datePublished":"2016-02-12T00:19:48.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:41:57.591Z","description":"Sanders aims to reach more black voters as the race heads to South Carolina","url":"https://time.com/4218694/bernie-sanders-erica-garner-endorsement/","keywords":["Bernie Sanders","2016 Election","South Carolina","Nevada","campaign ads"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltddf9942a057a6442/69887d62cf40a8bec4c41ef8/erica-garner-protest.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Katie Reilly","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltddf9942a057a6442/69887d62cf40a8bec4c41ef8/erica-garner-protest.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"<> on December 11, 2014 in New York City.","caption":"<> on December 11, 2014 in New York City.","creditText":"Andrew Burton/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/bernie-sanders/","name":"Bernie Sanders"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4218694/bernie-sanders-erica-garner-endorsement/","name":"Eric Garner's Daughter Endorses Bernie Sanders in New Video"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Vote TOGETHER For Bernie Sanders","description":"","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/qWCHpfQh/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2016-02-11T23:45:12.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/qWCHpfQh.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4218694/bernie-sanders-erica-garner-endorsement/","duration":"PT1M","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4218694/bernie-sanders-erica-garner-endorsement/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```