Thursday, March 28, 2024

Ramsey Orta (He Filmed Eric Garner’s Death) Suing NYC for $10M

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*Sometimes we wonder if Ramsey Orta wishes he hadn’t filmed the death of Eric Garner by overzealous NYPD officers. Ever since then his life has been turned upside down. Orta recently accepted a plea deal on weapons and drug charges and is likely to spend the next four years in prison.

Now, according to the NY Post, Orta is suing the city for $10 million. He says that he was arrested on trumped-up charges in retaliation for recording the controversial arrest that sparked protests.

“Despite the murder of Eric Garner by the NYPD, Ramsey Orta, who filmed the incident, is the only person present at the incident who is going to prison because the NYPD engaged in smear tactics, in cooperation with the news media, and prepared a tactical plan to set him up for retaliatory arrests,” says the lawsuit.

“He feels he was unjustly singled out for arrest because he took that film of his friend getting arrested. The police have gone out of their way to follow him and arrest him every chance they get,” his lawyer, Andrew Plasse, told the Daily News.

Orta, 26, is now laying low with his wife in Las Vegas, waiting to report to court Oct. 3 for sentencing on gun possession and drug charges that did stick.

Two weeks after filming Garner’s death from a police choke hold, Orta was arrested on Staten Island on charges of possessing a .25 caliber Norton semiautomatic handgun. Six months later, he was caught selling heroin to an undercover cop.

Earlier this month, Orta pleaded guilty to charges of peddling heroin in 2015 and hiding a firearm in a woman’s pants in 2014. He is expected to be sentenced to four years in prison in October, according to the Post’s report.

New York’s Law Department told the Post that it will review all the accusations.

Read/learn more at NY Daily News.

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