In the ongoing aftermath of a confrontation with NYPD that resulted in the choking and death of Eric Garner, the Staten Island man's brother and daughter have expressed their grief in an unlikely way: through song.
Entitled "This Ends Today", the emotionally gripping song features a rap verse and vocals from Garner's daughter Erica and his brother, Steven Flagg.
The song opens with a muffled voice recording of Garner's final words ("I can't breathe") before Erica sings the chorus: "Who is the man with the strength to choose? / When the rest refuse / And I say, 'This ends today.'"
Flagg then cuts in with a growly rap verse: "It's sad how my brother Eric Garner was killed / The pain in my heart still refuses to heal / Today some police be plottin' to kill."
The emotional lines reverberate throughout. "Justice or all, not justice for one/ This is how all this begun," Erica relays in her own rhymes. "What was the circumstances of his death?/ Why couldn't he take another breath?"
The track was produced by Flagg, but it apparently was the first time the 24-year-old has ever recorded a song. "It just came from the heart," he told New York Daily News. "We want to get it out there on the radio, anywhere, so as many people as possible hear it.”