Members of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot released their first English-language song on Wednesday, titled “I Can’t Breathe” — the final words of New York police chokehold victim Eric Garner.
Pussy Riot members Nadya Tolokonnikova and Masha Alyokhina told The Guardian that they wrote the song after taking part in protests against police brutality in New York last December.
The song, inspired by Garner, is dedicated to people “around the globe who suffer from state terror — killed, choked, perished because of war and state sponsored violence of all kinds,” Pussy Riot wrote on the video’s YouTube page.
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Source: The Huffington Post
