US EditionEsaw Snipes-Garner, Widow of Eric Garner, Dies at 58
- Esaw Snipes-Garner, known for her activism and as the spouse of Eric Garner, passed away at the age of 58 due to undisclosed health issues in 2025.
- Her life's activism followed the 2014 police killing of Eric Garner, who died after Officer Daniel Pantaleo used a banned chokehold.
- Snipes-Garner, alongside her daughter and mother-in-law, became known for demanding justice and highlighting police violence against Black Americans.
- In 2015, the city agreed to pay the Garner family $5.9 million in compensation; Pantaleo was dismissed from the NYPD in 2019, and in 2022, the location of Garner’s death was commemorated by renaming the street Eric Garner Way.
- Her passing adds to a family marked by tragedy, underscoring long-term impacts of police violence and the unresolved quest for justice.
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Esaw Snipes-Garner, Activist And Widow Of Eric Garner, Dies At 58
Source: Theo Wargo / Getty Esaw Snipes-Garner, activist and widow of Eric Garner, has sadly died at age 58. The New York Amsterdam Times reports that she passed early Monday morning due to undisclosed health complications. Esaw Snipes-Garner’s death was announced on Monday by Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network (NAN). Dominique Sharpton, NAN’s national director of membership and producer of special events, released a statement celebratin…
Eric Garner widow, activist Esaw Snipes-Garner dies at 58
Esaw Snipes-Garner, the widow of Eric Garner who died after police placed him in a chokehold in 2014 Photo courtesy of Facebook MIAMI- Esaw Snipes-Garner, the widow of Eric Garner who died while in custody of the NYPD after he cried out “I can’t breathe” when placed in a choke hold, and became an activist after her husband’s death, has died, according to reports. She was 58. A cause of death was not revealed. Garner’s death in 2014 sparked natio…
Esaw Snipes-Garner, Beloved Civil Rights Activist And Widow Of Eric Garner, Passes Away At 58
Esaw Garner and the Garner family attend the 57th New York Film Festival – “American Trial: The Eric Garner Story” at Walter Reade Theater on October 12, 2019 in New York City. Source: Theo Wargo / Getty Esaw Snipes-Garner, activist and widow of Eric Garner, has sadly died at age 58. The New York Amsterdam Times reports that she passed early Monday morning due to undisclosed health complications. Esaw Snipes-Garner’s death was announced on Mond…
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