25-year-old Ramsey Orta, the man who filmed Eric Garner’s death is going to jail to serve a 4-year sentence.
Orta says that after filming Garner’s death he was repeatedly harassed and targeted by police and arrested 8 times in a span of 2 years.
The man who killed Eric Garner, Daniel Pantaleo, on the other hand got a 15% pay rise since the shooting of Eric.
That’s American criminal justice system for ya..
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This is part of what we’re talking about when we discuss the ways the criminal injustice system is designed to tear apart nonwhite families, how it’s held over our heads. He got out of ‘his place’ and stood up against white supremacy and is now being punished for it, by ripping his family apart and trying to destroy his life. This man did right and will now be separated from the real world and his family for four years–and that’s if they play everything by the books and he makes it out at the end of those four years.
Where were the Good Cops protecting him from harassment? When did the Good Cops report their partners and friends for targeting a citizen for a personal vendetta? Where are the Good Cops when the rest of the cops are flagrantly violating citizens’ rights?
