NY refuses to release man who filmed Eric Garner even tho he has bail money

[Malraiders]

They say that the source of the money needs to be investigated to see if the source of the money is permissible. Bail was raised by a crowd source website.

WTF. Welcome to the full blown police state.

There is also a video at the site.

The story here:

New York, NY — Three days ago, Ramsey Orta, the man who filmed the NYPD killing of Eric Garner was beginning to lose hope as he sat behind bars at Rikers prison in New York.

As a high profile police accountability activist, Orta feared for his life while in police custody, and those fears were confirmed when fellow inmates at Rikers began falling ill because their food was laced with rat poison. To protect himself from similar attacks, Orta has been refusing to eat.

However, after a push from The Free Thought Project, Ramsey Orta was given new-found hope. Orta’s story went viral and was shared tens of thousands of times on social media. The resultant virility has raised just over $40,000 as of Thursday.

On Thursday afternoon Orta posted bond. However, smashing all of this recent hope, officials are still refusing to release him.

According to PIX 11,

The Staten Island district attorney, Dan Donovan, demanded a hearing to determine if the SOURCE of the bail money is permissible. That’s in spite of the fact that most of the donors, from around the country, have given their names. And District Attorney Dan Donovan happens to be running for Congress in the special election for the district made up of Staten Island and parts of Brooklyn four weeks from now.

This politically ambitious DA is single-handedly denying the due process of Ramsey Orta. To make matters worse, there is no judge currently available to hear this ad hoc hearing demanded by Donovan. It won’t take place until Monday, at the earliest, despite Orta already posting bail.

The Free Thought Project contacted the DA’s office and asked if it’s normal for them not to accept crowd-sourced bail. They claimed to have “no idea and can’t comment on on-going cases.” They then directed us to their public relations department.

Dan Donovan Contact Information:

Via telephone at: [phone]

Via U.S. Mail at:
Office of the Richmond County District Attorney
130 Stuyvesant Place, 7th Floor
Staten Island, NY 10301

Via e-mail at: [e-mail]
(Any e-mail to District Attorney Donovan may be sent to [e-mail] and will be routed to his attention)


Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/officials-refuse-ramsey-orta-jail-grassroots-effort-raising-posting-bail/#zbTyBBLhW7HUGucz.99

[sabrina 1]

1. Well now they are verifying his claim that they are out to get him. Bullshit, he put up the money

legally he must be released. Does he have an attorney? How about the ACLU is that a case they might be willing to handle?

These police murders HAVE TO STOP.

I have been told here on DU that 'he is a POS'. Found it stunning to be honest.

So if even here we have people agreeing with the cops, what hope is there that he will ever get out of their clutches?

I would be willing to donate for his legal defense.

Thank you for the post. The more publicity he gets the safer he will be.

[SwankyXomb]

6. DU these days is full of people

who've already got their necks stretched out, waiting for the jackboot.

[ohnoyoudidnt]

13. Yes, it is.

It makes me sick how long some trolls get away with their shit before getting terminated.

[Malraiders]

2. Here is his go fund me site:

http://www.gofundme.com/of948k

[sabrina 1]

10. Thank you, I will do that. Looks like he does have lawyers who will be in court to fight the DA on

bail. I hope a lot of people show up that day. And I hope the media is there also.

This is shameful. They are blatant in their criminal behavior.

[HeiressofBickworth]

3. Little wonder

why the young man who filmed the Walter Scott murder in North Charleston feared for his life. Police have the motive, method and opportunity to fuck up the life of anyone who crosses them.

[Rex]

4. So is it a police state yet? Or is that just for this one person? I'm lost.

Kidding, I know it is not a police state...just little fiefdoms were local tyrants stealing from the already poor, get away with cold blooded murder.

[lpbk2713]

5. They intend to keep him until he has an "accident".

However long it takes.

[blkmusclmachine]

15. I wouldn't be a bit surprised.

[sabrina 1]

18. He is afraid his life is in danger. I believe him. And this action by the DA proves he was not

wrong imo.

[bbgrunt]

7. k and r for exposure.

[Warren DeMontague]

8. Sure, they'd like to arrest everyone who donated money to his bail, too.

And so on.

[Rex]

9. They probably can get names and numbers.

I wonder if those people should be worried?

[sabrina 1]

11. The more they try to intimidate people, such as this man, the more the public is forced

to see how corrupt they are.

Let them try to arrest those who donate to his fund. That would make things even worse for them imo.

[SoapBox]

12. The Police Militias are out of control.

[SunSeeker]

14. Thank you for posting this. nt

[blkmusclmachine]

16. http://media.liveauctiongroup.net/i/14124/14297929_1.jpg?v=8CF76F86BF84910

?v=8CF76F86BF84910

[TheDebbieDee]

17. And...who says we don't have political prisoners here in the USA?

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

19. "This politically ambitious DA"

This describes too many DAs in this country. Too many want convictions to put another notch on their professional gun belt. They seek convictions, not necessarily truth or justice. They're political animals, hoping to run for ever higher office. Having dealt with DA offices that play games and are obstructionist, I've come to hate the bad DAs even more than the bad cops.

[bvar22]

20. I've never heard of this.

...refusing to release someone AFTER they have posted bail.
Is this routine?

[FrodosPet]

21. Ramsey Orta to be released from jail after DA drops opposition to bail raised online

http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf/2015/04/ramsey_orta_to_be_released_fro.html

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Ramsey Orta, who had been held on $100,000 bail since his arrest on drug charges in February, will be released from jail Friday, the Staten Island district attorney's office said.

Orta, the Tompkinsville man who filmed Eric Garner's fatal confrontation with police last July, had remained housed at Rikers Island -- despite having raised the requisite bail money -- after prosecutors questioned the source of his crowdsourced bail funds.

However, prosecutors canceled a Friday afternoon bail-source hearing regarding the legitimacy of Orta's payment -- which was raised with the help of online crowd funding platform GoFundMe -- after determining the funds were permissible.

"We reviewed the paperwork that was submitted by the bail bondsman and we believed it met the requirements of the statute," Assistant District Attorney Daniel Master said. "So we didn't pursue our request to look further into the source of the funds."

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[KamaAina]

22. Charge Donovan with malfeasance

forthwith.