As the campaign shifts to South Carolina, both Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton are angling to appeal to African-American voters. | AP Photo New Sanders campaign ad features Eric Garner's daughter

Bernie Sanders' campaign unveiled its latest ad Thursday, featuring the daughter of Eric Garner, the African-American man killed in 2014 after a New York City police officer put him in a chokehold.

The nearly four-minute spot, narrated by Erica Garner, opens with images of her taking care of and being with her young daughter. Recounting a moment when her daughter learned about Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. and asked her if those "were the old days," Garner said she explained that "they are not really over."


"No one gets to see their parents' last moments. And I was able to see my dad die on national TV," Garner says, as a photo of the father and daughter flash across the screen. "They don't know what they took from us. He wasn't just someone that no one cared for him or no one loved him. He was loved dearly."

As the campaign shifts to South Carolina, both Sanders and Hillary Clinton are angling to appeal to African-American voters, a key demographic in the state.

Discussing her activism, Garner said, "I think we need to believe in a leader like Bernie Sanders."

"I believe that Bernie Sanders is a protester," Garner says in her narration, accompanied by footage of Sanders discussing the need for police accouontability and criminal-justice reform. "He's not scared to go up against the criminal-justice system. He's not scared ... and that's why I'm for Bernie."

Erica Garner endorsed Sanders last month in a Washington Post op-ed, while Eric Garner's mother, Gwen Carr, has endorsed Clinton.