On July 17th, 2014, New York native Ramsey Orta recorded a video that shook the nation - the vendor Eric Garner by plainclothes Staten Island police officer, Daniel Pantaleo. The gruesome phone-recorded video, in which Eric Garner repeatedly pleads “Stop, I can’t breathe” before losing consciousness, went viral in a matter of hours.
President Obama has recently come out in favor of police body cameras, and it has often been said that having video evidence in these situations would help bring clarity and even stop this from happening in the future.
Only person being punished is the man who filmed the murder on his cell phone, Ramsey Orta.Orta’s case has gained nation-wide attention should not be punished for trying to do the right thing. Orta has been targeted and harrassed in/out prison.
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