The daughter of Eric Garner blasted Mayor de Blasio Thursday for not releasing disciplinary records on the cop whose chokehold led to her father’s death.
Erica Garner was beyond blunt in her brutal assessment of the mayor, saying she felt betrayed by the decision to suddenly abide by a long-ignored law.
“Just cause you love Black p---y don’t mean you love Black lives... cc @BilldeBlasio,” Erica Garner wrote on Twitter.
“God has a way of exposing fraud ... Bill De Blasio can say whatever he wants. Black people here get no justice in his administration in NYC,” Garner, 26, added.
The activist is the eldest daughter of the 43-year-old Staten Island man who died after being put in a chokehold by NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo in July 2014.
The city’s decision to withhold disciplinary records on Pantaleo — including appealing a judge’s order to release the records — has sparked outrage among police reform activists, as well as Garner’s family.
The mayor claims he’s barred from releasing the records because of a state law that the NYPD and the city ignored for nearly 30 years.
De Blasio, and the NYPD, insist Section 50-A of the state civil rights law prevents the records’ release.
A spokesman for the mayor said the NYPD was for years in violation of the law, and is changing its practice to comply. On Thursday, Gov. Cuomo argued the law never stopped the release of similar files in the past. “The law hasn’t changed,” Cuomo said.
“Many, many years the NYPD disclosed the information. The NYPD now looks at the law and makes a different determination.”
De Blasio said he wants to release the records but can’t because of the law.
She also brought up the mayor’s son, Dante. “The thing that kills me is that De Blasio is raising a Black man..This is the example... My dad lays down and rolls over for white supremacy,” she added.
The mayor declined to comment on the critical tweets.
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