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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe guy who filmed Eric Garner's death is still fighting to get out of jail
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2015/04/eric-garner-video-ramsey-orta-rikersIt's been a rough eight months for the man who shot the video of Eric Garner's death. Since Garner was killed by a police officer's chokehold on a Staten Island sidewalk last July, Ramsey Orta, the 23-year-old who filmed the scene, has been arrested twice and has spent the past two months in Rikers Island. According to his attorneys, Orta believes he has been targeted by New York police in retaliation for having shot the video, which became a flash point for the growing civil-rights movement against police brutality.
Orta also fears that jail officials will try to poison him. "He's not eating the food that Rikers provides him," one of his attorneys, William Aronin, says. "Instead, he's surviving right now off of candy bars, chips, things he can get on the vending machine or the commissary. He's hungry, he is not happy, and he is scared."
Last month, 19 other inmates at the jail filed a lawsuit alleging that they had fallen ill after being served meatloaf with blue-green pellets in it. They say the pellets were rat poison, a claim which New York City Department of Correction officials have dismissed. Orta has not eaten any food served at the jail since the incident, his attorneys say. Department of Correction officials were not immediately available to respond to requests for comment.
About two weeks after Garner's death, Orta was arrested for allegedly passing a gun to a 17-year-old girl. He was sent to Rikers Island and was subsequently released. He was later arrested for allegedly selling drugs. His attorneys say it is likely Orta's cases will go to trial. "We have to get him out of jail as soon as possible so that one, he's safe, and two, he can prepare for his defense," Aronin says.
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The guy who filmed Eric Garner's death is still fighting to get out of jail (Original Post)
gollygee
Apr 2015
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SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)1. Smh....
Do you think that the Ramsey Orta and the scared young man who taped what happened to Scott will discouraged people from taping wrongdoing by cops?
Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)2. And the murderers walk free... nt
Pastiche423
(15,406 posts)3. Ramsey was released on Friday!
Ramsey Orta, Man Who Took Eric Garner Video, Released On Bail In Unrelated Case
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2015/04/10/ramsey-orta-man-who-took-eric-garner-video-released-on-bail-in-unrelated-case/
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2015/04/10/ramsey-orta-man-who-took-eric-garner-video-released-on-bail-in-unrelated-case/