Grass Roots Effort Raises $16K Bail In a Day to Free the Man Who Filmed Eric Garner’s Death

By John Vibes Ramsey Orta (Photo: Sylvia Martinez)
New York, New York – 48 hours ago, Ramsey Orta, the man who filmed the NYPD killing of Eric Garner was beginning to lose hope as he sat behind bars at Rikers prison in New York.
As a high profile police accountability activist, Orta feared for his life while in police custody, and those fears were confirmed when fellow inmates at Rikers began falling ill because their food was laced with rat poison. To protect himself from similar attacks, Orta has been refusing to eat, and has been living off of junk food from the vending machine …read more

Source:: http://thefreethoughtproject.com/ramsey-orta-statement-prison-supporters-raise-16k-bail-day/