A town hall with President Barack Obama on Thursday became embroiled in controversy when the daughter of Eric Garner, an unarmed black man killed during an encounter with New York police officers in 2014, claimed that she wasn’t allowed to ask the president a question after being promised she would have the opportunity.
ABC News broadcast the town hall on race relations on Thursday evening, but taped it earlier in the day. As taping finished, Garner’s oldest daughter, Erica, shouted that she had been “railroaded,” according to reports from USA Today and BuzzFeed.
Erica Garner said that despite being promised by the network that she would be allowed to ask a question, the taping concluded before she could speak. She has been tweeting about her experience at the town hall for several hours, calling the ABC News special a “farce” and a “sham.”
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— source motherjones.com By P.R. Lockhart
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