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Posted on 08/03/2014 4:29:05 PM PDT by Leaning Right
The man who shot the cellphone video showing a police officer using an apparent chokehold on a Staten Island man who later died, was arrested Saturday night on charges that he was carrying a stolen loaded handgun, a law-enforcement official said.
Ramsey Orta, 22 years old, was charged by the New York Police Department with criminal possession of a weapon and criminal possession of a weapon with a previous conviction, police said.
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
Quit scaring people. It is their right to record what they see in public.
Whoops!
A Staten Island man claimed Monday that he was falsely arrested on gun charges as retribution for taking the infamous “chokehold” video of Eric Garner‘s deadly scuffle with cops last month. Ramsey Orta, 22, said a cop told him that “karma’s a bitch” and “what goes around, comes around” while he rode in a NYPD police van after getting busted outside the drug-infested Richmond Hotel on Saturday night. “They pulled out their cameras and started videotaping me before I even went to the precinct,” Orta said by phone from custody after his arraignment.
http://nypost.com/2014/08/04/chokehold-witness-says-cops-taunted-him-karmas-a-bitch/
http://nypost.com/2014/08/04/chokehold-witness-says-cops-taunted-him-karmas-a-bitch/
This is probably worth a post of its own.
If someone does, ping me...
This story just keeps going....
Check the link in #99 about regarding what happened to the guy who shot the Garner video incident.
What a ton of crap. How corrupt are the police anyway?
No. Since he made a video of the JB cops he is suddenly a high priority for them to arrest. That's how corruption works.
Usually the people I think of as gullible are the ones who don’t get the police state playbook.
They are cops and they repeatedly break the law of their own workplace. And kill people. Keep defending them.
"The New York City Police Department is not exempt from this critique. In 2011, hundreds of drug cases were dismissed after several police officers were accused of mishandling evidence. That year, Justice Gustin L. Reichbach of the State Supreme Court in Brooklyn condemned a widespread culture of lying and corruption in the department’s drug enforcement units. “I thought I was not naïve,” he said when announcing a guilty verdict involving a police detective who had planted crack cocaine on a pair of suspects. “But even this court was shocked, not only by the seeming pervasive scope of misconduct but even more distressingly by the seeming casualness by which such conduct is employed.”
Remarkably, New York City officers have been found to engage in patterns of deceit in cases involving charges as minor as trespass. In September it was reported that the Bronx district attorney’s office was so alarmed by police lying that it decided to stop prosecuting people who were stopped and arrested for trespassing at public housing projects, unless prosecutors first interviewed the arresting officer to ensure the arrest was actually warranted. Jeannette Rucker, the chief of arraignments for the Bronx district attorney, explained in a letter that it had become apparent that the police were arresting people even when there was convincing evidence that they were innocent. To justify the arrests, Ms. Rucker claimed, police officers provided false written statements, and in depositions, the arresting officers gave false testimony.
CITIZENS! Follow the advice of dragnet2 and kiryandil and NEVER EVER video the police. COWER BEFORE THEM!
Guilty, with an explanation. I cancelled our liberal newspaper subscription over ten years ago.
Here we go down the rabbit hole again.
Where did I ever say there has never been any police corruption? (rhetorical question)
Let’s stay specific to this incident shall we? I just read an article today about Mr. Ortega’s delayed court proceedings. It would seem your side has a problem.
The teen girl Ortega was with said Ortega gave her the gun. Ortega has not said the cops planted the gun on him and the media has given him ample opportunity to speak.
The cops found marijuana on the teen girl as well. She didn’t say the cops planted that either.
By the way, I read both of the stories you reference. The Medical Examiner in Stewart initially ruled Stewart died from alcohol intoxication and later changed his findings to death from a choke. At trial he changed his report again and could not say Stewart had definitively died from the choke. He said he didn’t want bad publicity for his office.
Cops found not guilty. Question for you. Wasn’t it nice of the Medical Examiner to politicize the case to put the cops in jail? Did you even bother reading about the case or did you just throw it up there for show?
In the Baez case a jury found the officer NOT GUILTY. The Feds then stepped in and humbugged the cop like they did in the Rodney King case.
Both your examples are poor in saying the choke hold killed those involved.
Garner was allegedly selling untaxed cigarettes. Tobacco is evil. Evading taxes on tobacco is evil. Where's the liberal outrage?
When Orta was arrested he had come out of a drug house. He allegedly passed the gun to a girl who is 17 YEARS old! Orta allegedly handed a gun to a CHILD! Orta allegedly is involved with drugs with a minor female! Where's the liberal outrage?
Well, well, well...
So what was the cause of his arrest in the first place?
You don’t get to a concealed weapon without something else being the cause for detention and that would also have to attach.
Oh, bo, ho , ho! You guys are so messed up in the head.
This is your probable cause? You can’t prove anyone did anything based on the following:
“Mr. Orta was arrested just before 10 p.m. Saturday after New York Police Department narcotics officers noticed him and Ms. Lekaj going into a hotel that is a known drug location, the official said.
The two were seen by officers emerging from the hotel moments later, a standard sign used by officers to indicate that they may have been involved in a drug sale, the official said.
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Go read the story. There is no probable cause and they presume so much of which they have proof to get there.
They committed deplorable acts on Moslems?
Why no? No I Do Not Effin Care about Moslems.
If this happened in America different story.
They story says he was detained simply for being in some area “that is known for certain activities”.
So, by merely being in some place it can be assumed with all probability a certain activity took place and he was a participant?
I don’t think so.
The choke hold isn’t the issue.
Failure to care for your charge, prisoner in this case, is the issue.
Choked the guh to death? No.
Didn’t attempt to ascertain what medical care could be rendered and as I understand it, telling the EMT’s not to render care?
Uhmmm, that’s wrong.
Who are "you guys"? Are you sure your post #116 was meant for me? By the way, I agree with your post. I'd bet Orta was being followed by the NYPD in hopes that he would slip up somehow.
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