Shocking /​Man Imprisoned After Filming Eric Garner’s Death, Refusing To Eat, Rat Poison Found In Jail Food

New York, New York – 22-year-old Ramsey Orta, the young man who filmed the NYPD killing Eric Garner, was arrest­ed short­ly after on trumped up charges. He has since been locked up at the noto­ri­ous Rikers prison in New York.

Immediately fol­low­ing the killing of Eric Garner, Orta was stalked and tar­get­ed by police. They alleged­ly scru­ti­nized Orta’s dai­ly life until they were able to find some­thing to charge him with. Eventually, he was con­front­ed by police who ille­gal­ly searched him and arrest­ed him for the non-vio­lent crime of car­ry­ing an unreg­is­tered firearm.

Orta had expressed con­cern for his safe­ty after his arrest because he was sure that the police were retal­i­at­ing against him for expos­ing what they had done to Eric Garner.

While in prison, Orta has tak­en seem­ing­ly dras­tic mea­sures to ensure that he is not killed by the gang he wit­nessed mur­der Eric Garner. Orta has been refus­ing to eat, as he fears that guards may poi­son him because he is a high-pro­file oppo­nent of police bru­tal­i­ty. Sadly, Orta’s fears were well-found­ed. While he has been behind bars at Rikers, dozens of oth­er inmates have report­ed traces of rat poi­son in their food, a claim that was actu­al­ly recent­ly admit­ted by prison officials.

It was report­ed by the New York Post last month that 19 dif­fer­ent inmates were denied med­ical test­ing after bluish green pel­lets were found in their food. The prison admit­ted that these pel­lets were rat poi­son, but failed to give the inmates med­ical atten­tion, and failed to offer any kind of expla­na­tion as to why the prison’s food was taint­ed with rat poison.

Orta has been refus­ing to eat, so he has not ingest­ed any of the food laced with rat poi­son and is not one of the 19 inmates in ques­tion. However, his health is dete­ri­o­rat­ing and he is becom­ing mal­nour­ished due to the lack of food.

Speaking in an exclu­sive inter­view with The Free Thought Project, Danette Chavis, orga­niz­er and founder of National Action Against Police Brutality (NAAPB) point­ed out that Orta’s search and arrest were com­plete­ly unjustified.

“It’s imper­a­tive that each and every one of us watch this case close­ly, for what is being done to Ramsey Orta is being done across the United States to those who would resist the oppres­sive forces of police. When police have to reach back into the his­to­ry of a per­son to jus­ti­fy their actions of “today,” some­thing is very wrong. For the actions com­mit­ted by the per­son at the time of arrest should be suf­fi­cient. And when it isn’t they ought not be charged with a crime. Because if “his­to­ry” is enough to “con­vict” the United States itself is guilty, for crimes unable to be enu­mer­at­ed here,” Chavis said.

Orta’s sit­u­a­tion is dire, there is only so long that a per­son can go with­out ade­quate nutri­tion. It has now been proven that the food in prison can­not be trust­ed, not for your aver­age inmate, and espe­cial­ly not for con­tro­ver­sial ones. His bail has been set at $16250, and his fam­i­ly can­not afford to pay it. This is tru­ly a life and death sit­u­a­tion, so his fam­i­ly has start­ed a fundrais­er to help with the legal fees. Unfortunately, how­ev­er, the cam­paign has only raised a frac­tion of its goal. Please con­sid­er donat­ing to the fundrais­er if you have the means, even if it is only a few dollars.

Orta was not the only per­son to be tar­get­ed for film­ing the Garner mur­der either, as we report­ed last month, Taisha Allen, who also filmed the death of Eric Garner, is speak­ing out and say­ing that her involve­ment with the case has put a tar­get on her back with the NYPD.
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