Eric Garner’s widow, Esaw Garner, has reportedly rejected a $5 million offer from the city of New York to settle a wrongful death claim, the New York Daily News reports. A source familiar with ...

The case of Eric Garner—the Staten Island man killed in a police chokehold in July 2014 as he gasped “I can’t breathe!,” helping to galvanize the Black Lives Matter movement—continues to make ...

NEW YORK -- New York City reached a settlement Monday with the family of Eric Garner for $5.9 million, almost a year after the 43-year-old died in police custody. The family filed a notice of claim in ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- Mayor Bill de Blasio says the grand jury decision in the Eric Garner case is not the one many in New York City wanted. But the grand jury, after hearing from officer Daniel Pantaleo ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- The relationship between blacks and the police is a long standing source of on-again, off-again tension and controversy. The new president of the NAACP, the nation's oldest civil ...

STATEN ISLAND -- Protesters marched throughout New York City Wednesday night after a grand jury voted not to indict the NYPD officer involved in the chokehold death of Eric Garner on Staten Island.

Rep. Peter King (R-NY) followed up on his tweet thanking the grand jury for deciding not to indict the officer who killed Eric Garner with a chokehold by explaining his take on the case to CNN’s Wolf ...

The case of the Staten Island, N.Y., father of six who died after an altercation with New York City Police Department officers will go before a grand jury, the New York Times reports. Suggested ...

Jon Stewart was more serious than usual Wednesday night, taking on the non-indictment in the Eric Garner case. “I don’t know. I honestly don’t know what to say. If comedy is tragedy plus time, I need ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- In a 25-minute interview with Black Entertainment Television, President Obama said protests over the grand jury decision not to indict a police officer in the death of Eric ...

Four years ago today, Eric Garner was killed on Staten Island by police. The 43-year-old father died after he was put in a chokehold by New York Police Department Officer Daniel Pantaleo. His last ...

*Esaw Snipes-Garner, the widow of Eric Garner and a quiet but powerful force in the racial justice movement, died on June 17, 2025, at the age of 58. Her death was confirmed by Rev. Al Sharpton’s ...