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JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA - The black Florida mom who screamed 'I can't breathe' during a viral brawl with a white officer has a rap sheet dating back two decades – and a history of defying cops, the Daily Mail can reveal.
Erika McGriff, 39, claims she was the victim of police brutality after she was filmed grappling with Officer Randy Holton when he tried to ticket her for illegally parking outside her daughter's school.
Footage of her begging for help and bleeding from her arm during the October 7 takedown ignited social media outrage but the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office insists Holton did nothing wrong.
McGriff faces a slew of felonies for allegedly biting and punching Holton but has hired powerhouse civil rights attorney Ben Crump – who represented the families of George Floyd, Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown – to fight the charges and explore 'every possible legal avenue'.
Daily Mail can now disclose that McGriff has a history of fiery altercations and run-ins with the police including one instance when she booted a suspect in the stomach while officers were trying to arrest him.
In another encounter, she ignored police commands during an 'armed dispute' and marched across a neighbor's yard despite being ordered to stop.
'I already paid for those convictions and what I went through in my past. That's over with,' McGriff told Daily Mail, when asked for comment.
Her record spans two decades and includes battery, petit theft, drug possession and prostitution.
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