STATEN ISLAND — Family members of Eric Garner — who died while being arrested on a Staten Island street — released a song named after his last words to mark the two year anniversary of his death.
Garner's sister Ellisha Flagg and his brother Steven Flagg released the song "I Can't Breathe" Sunday on iTunes, Billboard first reported.
"A system that took my brother from me," Steven Flagg raps on the track. "No matter how much money I receive I can hear my brother crying 'I can't breathe.'"
The family could not be reached for comment but told Billboard, "The song is dedicated to the struggle everyone is going through."
This is the second song Steven Flagg worked on about his brother's death. Last year, he released the track "This Ends Today" with Garner's daughter Erica Garner.
Garner, 43, died on July 17, 2014 after being put in a chokehold by NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo for allegedly selling untaxed cigarettes on a Tompkinsville street.
Dramatic cellphone footage of the arrest shows the father of six pleading "I can't breathe" numerous times as he is wrestled to the ground by officers. His death sparked protests nationwide against police brutality with his last words serving as a rallying cry for them.
Despite the medical examiner ruling Garner's death a homicide, a grand jury ruled not to indict Pantaleo for it. Nearly a year after his death, the city reached a $5.9 million settlement with the victim's family in a wrongful death suit.
