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Pussy Riot have shared their first English-language song, 'I Can't Breathe', a protest song dedicated to Eric Garner.
Garner was one of several black man killed by police in controversial circumstances last year, after police put him in a chokehold - a maneuvre which is no longer allowed in the police force and which led to his death.
In horrific video footage of the incident, which was filmed by an onlooker, Garner can be heard repeatedly saying, "I can't breathe", a sentiment the police willfully ignored.
Pussy Riot's new video sees Maria Alyokhina and Nadya Tolokonnikova, who entered the national consciousness when they were imprisoned for 16 months for singing protest songs in a Russian church, being buried alive in Russian riot uniforms.
Watch Pussy Riot 'I Can't Breathe' below
Speaking to NME, the band said that the song is dedicated "to Eric Garner and to all who suffer from state terror – killed, choked, perished because of war and police violence – to political prisoners and those on the streets fighting for change. We all have to protest for those who are silent, and we have to protest for each other, no matter the geography, no matter the borders."
They continued, "'I can’t breathe' – these are the last words of Eric Garner. Those words are his, but we hope they can also stand for us and for many around the world, for all who can’t breathe because authorities act with impunity and feel invincible and above the law in using power to humiliate, intimidate, hurt, kill and oppress. We’ve known, on our own skin, what police brutality feels like and we can’t be silent on this issue."
The song features Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Nick Zinner and Miike Snow's Andrew Wyatt.
