Man Who Shot Video Of Eric Garner Arrest Due In Court On Gun Charge

[hrmjustin]

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) – The man who shot video of his friend, who died in police custody after being put in a chokehold by police, is due in court after being arrested on gun charges.

Ramsey Orta, 22, is awaiting arraignment on Monday. He was arrested Saturday night on Staten Island, a few blocks from where officers confronted his friend Eric Garner on July 17.

Orta, whose recording of an officer restraining Garner with a chokehold fueled outcry against the police, is charged with two counts of criminal possession of a weapon.

Around 9:45 p.m. Saturday, police said plainclothes officers from a Staten Island narcotics unit saw Orta stuff a silver-colored, .25-caliber handgun into a 17-year-old female companion’s waistband as they were leaving the Hotel Richmond.

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/08/04/man-who-shot-video-of-eric-garner-arrest-due-in-court-on-gun-charge/

[Scuba]

1. The message is: Expose police brutality, we'll find something on you and you'll rot in our jails.

[Jackpine Radical]

2. Find or plant.

Be interesting to know the history of that gun.

[hrmjustin]

3. well he has a record but it is suspicious. the good thing here is that it gives an out to

the DA to hand it over to the feds.