Threat from Garner kin
Eric’s girl lashes at baby mama
IT’S NOT JUST federal prosecutors who are at odds in the Eric Garner case.
The lawyer for Garner’s love child Legacy Miller demanded a restraining order against the late Staten Islander’s oldest daughter Erica over a recent menacing Facebook post.
Erica Garner specifically targeted her father’s one-time girlfriend Jewel Miller, raising concerns about the safety of 21/2-yearold Legacy and the little girl’s mother.
“Who wanna slap jewel fa me?” asked Erica Garner in her lengthy post. “. . . So if your(sic) reading this post and standing next to her smack the s--- out of her and remind her she was a side piece and nothing more.”
The back and forth is the latest ugliness in the court battle surrounding the division of Garner’s multimillion-dollar settlement among his surviving relatives.
Garner’s seven-figure payment includes $5.9 million okayed by the city one year after his chokehold death on a Staten Island sidewalk and another $1 million from the Richmond University Medical Center.
Attorney Lorraine Coyle wrote Staten Island Surrogate Judge Robert Gigante earlier this month about issuing the order covering both Jewel and the toddler.
“While the subject of such venom is Ms. Miller, I am concerned that should anything untoward occur, Legacy could be hurt either intentionally or in the commotion of a fight,” Coyle wrote.
“I am asking that the court issue a restraining order against Erica (Garner) . . . against Ms. Miller and certainly against Legacy. These may be the musings of a woman who is angry or it may be more.”
The letter was accompanied by a pair of screen grabs capturing the full content of the Facebook post.
Coyle said she had nothing to add beyond her note to the judge, and Jewel Miller’s lawyer Jason Leventhal declined to comment on the invective hurled at his client.
The parties are due to meet with Gigante next month, and it appears no action was taken on the request for protection as tensions continued to remain high.
“Jewel Miller is an embarrassment to my dad’s legacy,” Erica Garner wrote at another point. “She never in the paper for anything positive just gossip and negative petty s---.”
Gigante will eventually decide how much money goes to each of Garner’s survivors.
A DNA test proved that Legacy was Garner’s child, entitling the girl to a piece of the settlement. Erica Garner is one of Garner’s four children with his wife Esaw.
Coyle has already infuriated family members by asking for the Garner quartet to take their own DNA tests and prove Eric Garner’s paternity.
Garner died in July 2014 after NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo used a chokehold to bring him down on a Staten Island sidewalk. No criminal charges were ever brought against Pantaleo in the death where Garner’s last words were “I can’t breathe.”
The feds are weighing civil rights charges against Pantaleo.