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Garthem

(128 posts) Wed Aug 6, 2014, 03:11 PM Aug 2014

Wife Of Man Who Filmed NYPD Chokehold Arrested [View all]

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

Wow, what a shock, huh?

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Wife Of Man Who Filmed NYPD Chokehold Arrested [View all] Garthem Aug 2014 OP

Well, my problem is I never, and I mean NEVER believe the cops, I have to be told by randys1 Aug 2014 #1

When is the justice department going to step in and investigate? ebbie15644 Aug 2014 #2

NYPD doesn't get mad they get even. 4now Aug 2014 #3

falsifying their report is not even hopemountain Aug 2014 #9

This is what the NYPD does. 4now Aug 2014 #10

And let that be a lesson to anyone who dares to try getting another murder by cop documented. Judi Lynn Aug 2014 #4

Doesnt make the video fake. 7962 Aug 2014 #5

Take heed, people. If you film a wrong doing cop, make twenty or thirty copies of the film 1monster Aug 2014 #6

NYPD wants to make its message clear Kelvin Mace Aug 2014 #7

NJACLU has an app that you can record police encounters and upload to their site. Hoppy Aug 2014 #8

I hope that couple is alright, and that the NYPD doesn't disappear them down a dark hole somewhere! blkmusclmachine Aug 2014 #11

The New Mafia tabasco Aug 2014 #12

Smells like retaliation to me. Enthusiast Aug 2014 #13

UNREC brooklynite Aug 2014 #14

all the corps, the media, politicians & authorities in the USA kill the messengers. Sunlei Aug 2014 #15