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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.
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"Planting a gun" on Orta would need a stretch. I'll stick with Occam's Razor.
Story? Would you care to wager? I also have a trashed knee from Judo and a few broken bones.
You want to party with me? Care to explain?
You get the reputation you deserve.
Au contraire. I see a story or two every week where a police officer does something good for the citizenry (because he or she isn't treating them like the peasantry), without waddling out of an MRAP.
They've overcome their training.
Really? Guilty by media I suppose.
I agree. That's why I doubt that a plant happened. But following Orta specifically, hoping to catch him with something...not a stretch at all.
It's all in the timing. Had Orta next been arrested six months from now, I wouldn't be so curious.
And MRAP’s have what to do with this incident?
How many instances of my own personal experiences, involving police corruption across several states, would you like me to cite here?
WTF are you saying?
Are you suggesting the video he shot of the Garner incident is somehow bad because he might have subsequently broke one of tens of thousands of laws Americans are now subjected to?
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Oh PLEASE. LEOs are hardly ever charged and rarely go to jail for their crimes!
How often is wayyy too often? Less than it happens today.
It’s not the city of NY that is playing around “getting even” It’s individual cops and even you would have to admit, it’s happening more and more often.
We're all surprised that there wasn't one involved, what with the dangerous tax-evadin' and general defiance of authoritay going on....
did they prove he didn’t pay taxes on those cigarettes?
I don’t know that anyone placed a gun on this guy. Just like you don’t know that they didn’t.
I think it may have been a preventative measure...
Patterns of tactics, show of power, motives which include militarization of law enforcement, patterns of control, control techniques, to show the general population not to get out of line or else, witness intimidation, control through force, intimidation and prosecution of those who fail to conform, prosecution and surveillance of those who fail to get in line or cause problems and issues, etc....
I read your post a few times. It is barely on topic.
It may be convenient, but if he broke the law he cannot complain. The police are not obligated to let someone break laws because it might look convenient.
"His past record notwithstanding, his present circumstance neither diminishes nor abrogates the act he captured and publicly exposed."
I agree. It stands on its merits.
The rest of your comments fall within "broad brush" accusations, so I'll pass.
I would like to see a defense attorney use that line of reasoning in front of a jury.
"Ladies and Gentlemen of the jury. My client shot a video of cops making an arrest. Later, the cops followed my client around and he went into a known drug house. When he came out they contacted him and found him is possession of drugs and a gun. The only reason they arrested him was for payback. The defense rests."
"I will call a statistician to the stand who will tell you that the chances of someone with Mr. Orta's record being arrested in any given week is approximately 5%. Yet he was arrested within one week of shooting a video that embarrassed the NYPD."
Now, does that statement clear Mr. Orta? Not at all! If he was found with a gun, then he was fun with a gun, and off to jail he should go.
But the ods should cast deep suspicion on just what the NYPD is up to.
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