NYPD chokehold victim Eric Garner's daughter has slammed civil rights leader Rev Al Sharpton for only caring about financial gain and promoting his organization, according to a new 8-minute-long undercover video released by right-wing filmmaker James O'Keefe's group, Project Veritas, on Monday.
Erica Snipes, the daughter of Eric Garner who died last July after a New York City Police officer placed him in a chokehold, issued a scathing assessment of Sharpton, the founder of the National Action Network, during a secretly recorded conversation with two conservative activists, New York Post reported.
"You think Al Sharpton is kind of like a crook in a sense?" one of O'Keefe's undercover investigators posing as an Eric Garner supporter asked Snipes during a protest at the St. George Ferry Terminal on Staten Island in January.
"He's about this," the 24-year-old replied by rubbing her thumb and index finger together in a universal sign symbolizing money. When the investigator questioned if she meant money, Snipes replied in the affirmative.
At one point in the video, Snipes clearly suggests that Sharpton's group has treated her unfairly by claiming that NAN's Staten Island director Cynthia Davis had repeatedly "attacked" her for not including the logo of Sharpton's organization on fliers for pro-Garner events, accoridng to UK MailOnline.
"[Davis] started attacking me - 'Oh, I see that you got this flier out, how come you didn't add the logo?' ... Instead of me, [Sharpton] wants his face in front," she said. "Al Sharpton paid for the funeral. She's trying to make me feel like I owe them."
Aside from Snipes, the video also includes interviews with other African-American community leaders and activities, most of whom had something negative to say about the 60-year-old activist, Mediaite reported.
"To some degree, he sort of incites people for the wrong reason," Bishop Calvin Scott, of Believers Temple in Ferguson, Mo., said.
Following the release of the undercover video, Sharpton accused Project Veritas of "exploiting" Snipes.
"They're splicing and dicing stuff together. It was a distortion. Erica is a sincere victim. She was not trying to infer anything about me," Sharpton said.
Meanwhile in an interview with New York Post on Monday night, the 24-year-old disputed that she had characterized Sharpton as money-hungry, but stood by her criticisms of Davis, who she claimed tried to block her from attending a protest at the Staten Island Museum against mass incarceration.
