The New York City man who captured the fatal police chokehold of Eric Garner is suing the city for $10 million over a drug arrest that he says was police retaliation.
Ramsey Orta was arrested last June after authorities say he sold an undercover officer $40 worth of the party drug known as Molly. The charges were later dropped.
Lawyer Andrew Plasse told the Daily News that Orta feels he was “unjustly singled out for arrest.” The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in Manhattan Supreme Court, claims it was an effort by the NYPD to “discredit” Orta’s video.
Orta’s video footage showed Garner, an unarmed black man, saying “I can’t breathe” as a white police officer held him a chokehold.