Nazario was stopped by two police officers in Windsor, Virginia, in December. During the traffic stop, for what police believed was a license plate number, officers sprayed Nazario with pepper spray and pushed him to the ground with their guns out, according to camera footage of the body.
Carr’s niece is the one who told her the man in the video was Nazario, Carr said.
“This is happening again, you know,” Carr’s niece said, according to Carr. “First to my cousin, then to my cousin.”
Carr did not explain exactly how she and Nazario are related in her comments, but said she saw him at a funeral in February.
He was traumatized. He couldn’t say anything about it. He thought the police would retaliate, but thank goodness he got it out. And I want everyone to pray for him, ”she said.
Garner’s death, which occurred three weeks before Michael Brown’s death in Ferguson, Missouri, was one of the last straws that sparked a wave of police accountability calls and brought the Black Lives Matter movement to the forefront of the national consciousness.
CNN’s Laura Ly and LaCrisha McAllister contributed to this report.