Wife Of Man Who Filmed NYPD Chokehold Arrested

[Garthem]

Source: HuffPo

Posted: 08/06/2014 11:59 am EDT Updated: 3 hours ago

The wife of the man who recorded video of New York Police Department officers performing a fatal chokehold has been arrested on assault charges.

Chrissie Ortiz, 30, allegedly struck a woman outside a Staten Island grocery in New York Tuesday after the two got into an argument. She faces a misdemeanor assault charge, the Staten Island Advance reports.

Ortiz's arrest comes just days after her husband, 22-year-old Ramsey Orta, was arrested on gun possession charges.

While being taken into custody, Orta told arresting officers, "You're just mad because I filmed your boy."

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/06/chrissie-ortiz-ramsey-orta-nypd-chokehold_n_5654746.html

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Wow, what a shock, huh?

[randys1]

1. Well, my problem is I never, and I mean NEVER believe the cops, I have to be told by

a credible 3rd party before I believe them.

Sorry guys and gals in the cop world, I want to trust you and believe you but you did this, not me.

[ebbie15644]

2. When is the justice department going to step in and investigate?

[4now]

3. NYPD doesn't get mad they get even.

[hopemountain]

9. falsifying their report is not even

nypd has a whole lot of weight on their side, that's all. it is not "even" by any means.

[4now]

10. This is what the NYPD does.

falsifying reports is nothing new to them.
Just another day at the job.

[Judi Lynn]

4. And let that be a lesson to anyone who dares to try getting another murder by cop documented.

Can't say we haven't been warned by history.

To save our own lives, we must look the other way.

They mean to appeal to our "inner Any Rands" (assholes).

[7962]

5. Doesnt make the video fake.

[1monster]

6. Take heed, people. If you film a wrong doing cop, make twenty or thirty copies of the film

and send them anonymously to various news outlets from many different origin points. Make it hard for them to get even.

[Kelvin Mace]

7. NYPD wants to make its message clear

DO NOT FUCK WITH US!

[Hoppy]

8. NJACLU has an app that you can record police encounters and upload to their site.

I don't know if other state ACLU's have the same.

[blkmusclmachine]

11. I hope that couple is alright, and that the NYPD doesn't disappear them down a dark hole somewhere!

Crooked

[tabasco]

12. The New Mafia

aka "The Police."

Brought to you by cowardly politicians and the "war" on some drugs.

[Enthusiast]

13. Smells like retaliation to me.

Just what we have come to expect from the New York Police Department.

[brooklynite]

14. UNREC

Everyone in this thread is going with retaliation without doing any research or thinking rationally.

Without excusing for a minute what the Police did, it's worth considering that, before all this happened, Orta already had 26 prior convictions, so the notion that AFTER filming the police he'd get into trouble again isn't a big stretch.

Add to that, this has become a huge political issue involving the Mayor, the Commissioner, the Council, Al Sharpton and others. Are you really going to try to retaliate by ginning up an assault charge requiring another civilian to commit perjury, resulting in nothing more than a Desk Appearance Ticket, in that kind of environment?

[Sunlei]

15. all the corps, the media, politicians & authorities in the USA kill the messengers.

shoot (or kill) the messenger-treat the bearer of bad news as if they were to blame for it.

Some states-Corps just recently made it a crime to video crimes.