Two years after Eric Garner was killed by New York City police officers using a fatal chokehold as he gasped the now-iconic words “I can’t breathe,” the only person being sent behind bars isn’t the cop, but the man who filmed the killing. Ramsey Orta, the man who filmed Garner’s death on his cell phone on July 17, 2014, was sentenced earlier
2 Years After Eric Garner’s Death, Witness Is Only One Charged
Two years after Eric Garner was killed by New York City police officers using a fatal chokehold as he gasped the now-iconic words “I can’t breathe,” the only person being sent behind bars isn’t the cop, but the man who filmed the killing. Ramsey Orta, the man who filmed Garner’s death on his cell phone on July […]