Unlike in NYPD officer Daniel Panteleo’s case, a Staten Island grand jury panel was less sympathetic to Ramsey Orta, the man who filmed Eric Garner’s fatal police encounter.
A Staten Island grand jury decided not to indict Pantaleo, who put Garner, an unarmed Black man, in a chokehold shortly before his death. As a result Pantaleo literally got away with murder.
But nearly a month after filming the July 17 incident between the officer and Garner, who was accused of selling loose, untaxed cigarettes, a grand jury indicted Orta on weapons charges that stemmed from an arrest by undercover officers in August. Okay, I know what your think, if he was carrying a weapon he should be charged. But, read on.
Police charged that Orta tried to conceal a .25 caliber handgun in the waistband of a teenage accomplice while standing outside a New York hotel.
Orta argued that the charges were trumped up by police as payback for his role in filming Garner’s death. The grand jury, however, rejected Orta’s allegation, charging him with single felony counts of third-degree criminal weapon possession and criminal firearm possession.
In Panetaleo’s case, however, jurors decided there was not probable cause that the officer had committed a crime in Garner’s death. A medical examiner ruled the death a homicide, resulting in part from the chokehold, a restraining move banned by the NYPD in 1993.
This charge sounds erroneous, fake, and phoney and unlike the crime that officer Panteleo committed, there is no footage that we know of, indicating that the charges are based on facts. Just the word of the police officers who "observed" the crime. What a coincidence!
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