20 August 19
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20 August 19
SEE ALSO: Emerald Garner, Eric Garner's Daughter, Says Firing Pantaleo"Should Have Happened a Long Time Ago"
Zak Cheney-Rice, New York Magazine
Cheney-Rice writes: "Daniel Pantaleo, the New York City police officer who killed Eric Garner in 2014, was fired on Monday."
EXCERPT:
It’s been a costly process in all respects: The five years since Garner’s death have seen his friend Ramsey Orta, who filmed the killing and distributed the footage, harassed by police and sent to jail in what many saw as retaliation; his daughter, Erica Garner, dead of a heart attack at age 27, having become an outspoken activist for police accountability after her father’s death; and Garner’s family receiving a $5.9 million wrongful-death settlement from the city — the payment of which Ed Mullins, head of the Sergeants Benevolent Association, derided as “obscene” and “shameful” in its tacit indulgence of a man who “repeatedly chose to break the law and resist arrest.”
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We have become BARBARIANS!
Ramsey Orta is currently serving his time in Groveland Correctional Facility. His release date is December 2019 and he has been in prison since October 2016. (photo: Amelia Holowaty Krales/The Verge)
He Filmed the Killing of Eric Garner - and Police Punished Him for It
Chloé Cooper Jones, The Verge
Jones writes: "Ramsey Orta filmed the killing of Eric Garner. The video traveled far, but it wouldn't get justice for his dead friend. Instead, the NYPD would exact their revenge through targeted harassment and eventually imprisonment - Orta's punishment for daring to show the world police brutality."
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Chloé Cooper Jones, The Verge
Jones writes: "Ramsey Orta filmed the killing of Eric Garner. The video traveled far, but it wouldn't get justice for his dead friend. Instead, the NYPD would exact their revenge through targeted harassment and eventually imprisonment - Orta's punishment for daring to show the world police brutality."
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A Tale of Two Prisoners
Alex N. Press, Jacobin
Press writes: "Comparing the treatment of Jeffrey Epstein to Ramsey Orta, the man who filmed Eric Garner's murder, reveals the grotesque inequality at the heart of American society."
Alex N. Press, Jacobin
Press writes: "Comparing the treatment of Jeffrey Epstein to Ramsey Orta, the man who filmed Eric Garner's murder, reveals the grotesque inequality at the heart of American society."
FYI - VIDEO OF ERIC GARNER:
VIDEO SHOT BY RAMSEY ORTA:
Man Who Filmed Eric Garner's Death Heading to Jail
Anealla Safdar, Al Jazeera
Safdar writes: "On July 17, 2014, Ramsey Orta took out his mobile phone and filmed a police officer in New York killing his friend, Eric Garner. But as soon as he stopped recording, Orta says his own life also took a dramatic turn for the worse."
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Anealla Safdar, Al Jazeera
Safdar writes: "On July 17, 2014, Ramsey Orta took out his mobile phone and filmed a police officer in New York killing his friend, Eric Garner. But as soon as he stopped recording, Orta says his own life also took a dramatic turn for the worse."
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