Eric Garner's Daughter: 'Cop's Pride, Not Racism, Reason for Chokehold'

Erica Garner, the daughter of Eric Garner, told CNN Thursday she doesn't believe her father died during an arrest because the police officers were racist.

"This is not a black and white issue," she told CNN's Don Lemon. "This is a national crisis."

Garner was talking specifically about how people of all races had joined demonstrations after a Staten Island grand jury declined to indict a white police officer in her father's death in July.

Noting that many people have said Eric Garner's death is part of a trend of white police officers killing unarmed black men, Lemon asked whether she believed race place a role in the incident.

"I really doubt it," she said. "It was about the officer’s pride. It was about my father being 6-4 and 350 pounds and he wants to be the top cop that brings a big man down."

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