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Ramsey Orta is a member of Copwatch in New York City. He is known for filming the death of Eric Garner on July 17, 2014. In 2016 he was sentenced to four years in prison after a plea deal for weapons and drug charges.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

References

^ Mathias, Christopher (October 5, 2016). "The Man Who Filmed the Eric Garner Video is Behind Bars". Huffington Post.
^ Jones, Chloé Cooper (March 13, 2019). "Fearing for His Life: Ramsey Orta filmed the killing of Eric Garner. The video traveled far, but it wouldn't get justice for his dead friend. Instead, the NYPD would exact their revenge through targeted harassment and eventually imprisonment — Orta's punishment for daring to show the world police brutality". The Verge.
^ Sanburn, Josh. "The Witness: One year after filming Eric Garner's fatal confrontation with police, Ramsey Orta's life has been upended". Time.
^ Brown, Stephen Rex (January 20, 2019). "Man who filmed death of Eric Garner will be first witness in NYPD trial of cop who used chokehold". New York Daily News.

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