WOLF BLITZER, CNNYesterday, we saw a powerful symbol of healing. Eric Garner's daughter, Emerald, paying respects. She's joining us tonight to share her thoughts on what has obviously been a very difficult emotionally loaded time for her.



Emerald, what went through your mind when you heard that the man who murdered those two New York city police officers in Brooklyn had earlier posted online that the killings would be revenge for the deaths of your father and Michael Brown?



EMERALD GARNER, ERIC GARNER'S DAUGHTER: Well, the first thing that went through my mind was basically, you know, there's something wrong with, you know, him as a person. He's not, you know, mentally stable because, you know, with everything that we've been saying, we want everything to be peaceful. So it wasn't, you know, that he didn't know what was happening. He just, you know, took it upon himself to take, you know, negative actions.



BLITZER: You visited a memorial yesterday that had been created to honor these police officers Ramos and Liu. Explain why that was important for you to be there and publicly offer your condolences.



GARNER: It was important to me because in the case of my dad, people came out and they supported us and I just felt really saddened by it. Because a young boy, a young kid lost their father like I did. So I know exactly what it feels like to lose a parent, so for him to lose a parent and, you know, a senseless death was just, just so heartbreaking. Because he's a young boy. He's young like my brother. So he's going to live the rest of his life without his dad. I can relate to him. And just because he's a police officer's son doesn't mean that he doesn't have feelings.



BLITZER: Of course. It's very sad and tragic. As you know, Emerald, there are those who point fingers at the tiny number of people who were saying really ugly things during the protest about dead cops and stuff like that. What do you say to those people?



GARNER: I tell people like I want to get the message out there that there's not all bad cops. Like all cops are not bad. I have, you know, NYPD in my family. So that doesn't make me look at them like, you know, they're bad because they're cops. They are still my family, so once you take off that uniform, you're a regular person. So just because you have a uniform doesn't define you as a bad cop.



So I just want to let them know, not all cops are bad. So we just got to salute the good ones and wean out the bad ones.