(Newswire.net — December 5, 2014) New York, DC., — In July, NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo choked Eric Garner to death. Garner was an unarmed black man. 22-year-old Ramsey Orta videotaped the whole incident.
“I know a ‘Bigi’ [Garner] for about four years now, and he was a good man,” said Orta. He and Garner was walking on the street and talking when a police patrol pull over and confront Garner on the street for allegedly selling illegal cigarettes. Orta immediately start recording with his phone. Orta feared no one would believe his words since he also had a history of problems with NYPD.
As seen in Orta’s video, Garner was very upset and aggravated when police approached him. “I’m minding my own businesses officer, please just leave me alone!” He keeps saying that he did nothing wrong and repeated he just minded his own business.
Orta said that NWPD was harassing Garner every time they saw him on the street. That is why he was so angry refusing to be handcuffed. “This ends now!” said Garner to the cops.
At that moment officer Daniel Pantaleo approach him from behind and applied a chokehold, and took Garner down.
“I heard him [Garner] repeated ‘I can’t breath’ several times and than he passed,” Orta said. Moments later Garner died.
Less than one month after taping Garner’s confrontation with police, Orta was charged with weapon possession after being arrested on Aug. 2. According to a SILive.com report, Orta told the Staten Island Court that police, out of revenge for capturing Garner’s death, are framing him.
“When they searched me, they didn’t find nothing on me,” Orta said after his arrest. “And the same cop that searched me, he told me clearly himself, that karma’s a (expletive), what goes around comes around.”
After reviewing testimony from 50 witnesses and considered 60 exhibits, including Orta’s video, over the course of nine weeks of deliberations, the New York grand jury decided not to indict the police officer who killed Garner. That triggered mass protests in New York against police brutality.
On the same day one grand jury decided not to indict Officer Daniel Pantaleo in the death of Eric Garner, a different grand jury did indict Ramsey Orta for weapon possession.
“I had nothing to do with this. I would be stupid to walk around with a gun after me being in the spotlight,” Orta said.
Chrissie Ortiz, Orta’s wife, called the charges against her husband “total BS.” She was arrested herself in August for an alleged assault between her and another female.
“I’m just worried about my husband and getting out the truth and making sure justice is served for Eric Garner and my husband,” Ortiz said.
Amid riots in Ferguson and protests in New York, Comedy Central star host Jon Stewart response to a Staten Island grand jury decision.
“I honestly don’t know what to say. If comedy is tragedy plus time, I need more (expletive) time,” Stewart said.
US attorney general has lunched a federal inquiry to the Matter.