Police and Prisons

Ramsey Orta, 24, filmed the police murder of Eric Garner in Staten Island on July 17, 2014. Eric was choked to death by murderous cop Daniel Pantaleo, with the backing of a gang of police. While murderous pig Pantaleo was placed on administrative leave and never charged for murdering Eric, Ramsey was endlessly tormented and targeted by the occupying military force in retaliation. Ramsey was sentenced to four years in prison on trumped-up charges.

Ramsey Orta is one of our newest political prisoners. He is in prison as a result of being targeted by the colonial State after standing up to police. The Burning Spear stands in complete solidarity with brother Ramsey and are clear when we say that Africans and other colonized people have the right to resist our colonial oppression! 

The following is a statement from Ramsey Orta's wife, Jessica Orta, to The Burning Spear newspaper:

"As I sit here with thoughts swirling around in my head about the corrupt police system that we have and the hateful organizations they're modeled after, I cringe."

Mustafa Bearfield Jr., a 16-year-old teenager living in Huntsville, AL was on his way to school on June 21, 2016 when he was gunned down and murdered by white vigilante, Jonathan Scott only seconds away from his destination.

Terence Crutcher, a 40-year-old African father of four children, was murdered in the streets by white female cop Betty Shelby on Friday, September 16, 2016. The State doesn’t care about how righteous Terence seemingly was, or how many children he had; the police’s function is to kill Africans. And their representatives are united in that task.

Prisoners across the U.S. went on strike on September 9th, The 45th anniversary of the Attica prison uprising. The strike took place in 24 states and about 40-50 prisons were involved.

Police have once again investigated themselves and found that they have committed no crime. This time, in reference to North Miami cop Jonathon Aledda, who shot an unarmed African, Charles Kinsey, in the leg on July 18th.

Charles was lying on his back with his hands up, begging for the cop not to shoot him when Aledda shot him anyway. Charles, a mental health therapist, was retrieving one of his patients, an autistic man from the middle of the street. The autistic man was sitting in the street playing with a toy truck.

BALTIMORE—Baltimore State attorney Marilyn Mosby and the Baltimore State Attorney’s Office decided to drop all charges against the three remaining cops charged with murdering 25-year-old African Freddie Gray on July 27, 2016.

There were six cops initially charged with the murder of Freddie and all of them have now been acquitted.

North Miami, FL—Charles Kinsey was shot in the leg by North Miami police while lying on the ground with his hands up on July 18, 2016.

NEW YORK—Ramsey Orta, the 24-year-old man who videotaped the murder of Eric Garner by NYPD, will now be serving a 4-year prison sentence.

Ramsey has been hounded and harassed by NYPD ever since he recorded them choking Eric Garner to death on July 17, 2014.