Filming US police crimes lands you in jail: American activist
Anybody who films the police in the United States killing someone will always end up in jail, says an American political commentator and activist in Atlanta, Georgia.
Elaine Riddick, who is executive director at the Rebecca Project for Justice, made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Saturday while commenting on the arrest of the man who filmed the police brutality against Freddie Gray.
Kevin Moore, 30, was arrested early on Friday. The video, captured by his cellphone, shows the arresting officers roughly lifting a handcuffed Gray from the ground and dragging him screaming to the back of a police van, where he suffered a fatal spine injury. Gray, 25, died a week after his arrest.
“Anybody that’s filming or has filmed the police here killing someone, they always end up going to jail,” said Riddick.
“Look at the guy that was put in a chokehold. The guy that filmed his arrest, that filmed his death, is still in jail. He’s afraid for his life. He is afraid to come out on the street,” said Riddick, referring to the July 2014 death of Eric Garner. “It’s not fair, and there is no justice.”
Garner, a 43-year-old African-American, died after being placed in the chokehold by police officer Daniel Pantaleo on Staten Island on July 17. Ramsey Orta, the 23-year-old who filmed the scene, is in prison.
Riddick also said that she heard “that white people are saying just move the police out of the areas and let black people kill themselves.”
The future is “very very doomed” for black people in the US, Riddick predicted, for 2 reasons, one is “because they don’t have rights” and two is apparently “it’s okay to just shoot them [blacks] and won’t be punished for their crimes.”
When Riddick was asked by Press TV if assassinated African-American civil rights Leader Martin Luther King’s “dream” would come true, she replied, “No. The only way I see it being coming true is if blacks just pack-up and move away, or you know, if they have their own part of the earth.”
“So at this point, no, I don’t see his dream coming true,” she stated.
Martin Luther King Jr. was a social activist, who led the Civil Rights Movement in the United States from the mid-1950s until his assassination on April 4, 1968.
He is famous for his “I Have a Dream” speech he made on August 28, 1963 in which he calls for an end to racism in the US.
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