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  • 2016-10-06 (xsd:date)
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  • Ramsey Orta Jailed for Filming Eric Garner's Death (en)
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  • Ramsey Orta was unwittingly thrust into the national spotlight after filming galvanizing footage of the death of Eric Garner (who died after being restrained in a chokehold by New York City Police in Staten Island) in July 2014, and on 3 October 2016 Orta was sentenced to four years in prison for what many posited was the crime of filming alleged police misconduct. Orta's experiences after he was credited with filming Garner's death drew scrutiny from many who suspected he was being targeted by police for harassment. Garner was killed on 17 July 2014, and Orta was arrested on unrelated gun charges within weeks of capturing Garner's death on camera. Orta was arrested a second time six months later for the alleged sale of drugs and then was initially blocked from posting bail via funds obtained through crowdsourcing. During Orta's pretrial incarceration at Rikers' Island, he and more than a dozen other inmates sued, claiming their food was laced with rat poison. Between July 2014 and July 2016, Orta was arrested three times and moved due to what he maintained was a pattern of police harassment: After entering a guilty plea in July 2016 on charges stemming from those arrests, Orta was sentenced to four years in prison on 3 October 2016 on charges relating to possession of a gun and a controlled substance: Although Orta's supporters maintained the charges were retaliatory in nature, Orta was neither charged nor convicted in relation to the act filming Eric Garner's death. Orta pled guilty to weapons and drug charges in July 2016 and was sentenced based on those pleas. (en)
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