Discussion for article #225945
Sounds like a righteous bust to me. Nothing to see here?
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Don’t worry that the last time this gun was seen was in the NYPD evidence lockup 3 years ago.
That is just a coincidence.
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain…
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And why exactly was he being followed by the police prior to his arrest?
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I wish the same over surveillance of known criminal zones, and the stop and frisk policy, without the choke hold, could be utilized on Wall Street. Where criminals number in the hundred of thousands every day.
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Police said plainclothes officers from a Staten Island narcotics unit saw Orta stuff a silver-colored, .25-caliber handgun into a 17-year-old female companion’s waistband after they emerged from a brief stop at the Hotel Richmond. Police called the location, on Central Avenue, a “known drug prone location.”
The unloaded semi-automatic weapon recovered was reported stolen in Michigan in 2007, police said.
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If this was Orta’s gun, why would he have unloaded it prior to going to a known drug location?
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Police seized the gun Saturday night, and by the Sunday press conference knew that it had been reported stolen in Michigan in 2007. ** Quick police work.**
Police said Orta was in a hospital Sunday for treatment of a medical condition. No details were available.
- Yet the police can’t or won’t say why Orta had to be hospitalized after his arrest. Not so quick police work about facts that may be more relevant to his arrest than the gun’s prior history. I doubt that any recording of Orta’s arrest (now) exists.
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I’ve thought and thought about this.
This bust won’t alter the video, but if it was a set up, then I can only figure it’s a warning to anyone who might video record police misconduct in the future: The police will find a gun or drugs on you or with an underage girl or shoplifting or spitting on the sidewalk.
Going way back to my youth in NJ, we were confident in our belief that the cops would not think twice about, say, planting drugs or a weapon on you if you crossed them.
No, it won’t alter a video, but it just might discourage any potential eye witnesses.
Occcam may be on to something: Sounds like a “throw away” gun.
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Set up is written all over this. If I could I’d pay his bail.
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This is a setup. Anyone who’s ever been in a situation where they sued police know that they retaliate and intimidate as a matter of course. My guess is if the bust is righteous, they were watching him in order to try and discredit him for the lawsuit. Remember, a cop’s first order of business is prove your manhood, second order of business is clean up any loose ends as they relate to the first order of business. Oh and as far as Staten Island prosecutors prosecuting cops…BWAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Not. Going. To happen. THat’s not how the game is played, not if you wanna be elected DA one day.
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Max
My late father in law, died in the early 1970’s was a Boston cop in the 1920’s . Change a name or a date, but nothing has changed with police behavior.
Check out this nightmare:
http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/2014/08/thomas_m_goethals_dekraai.php
Really? Sounds pretty suspicious to me
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Wouldn’t expect anything less from America’s Biggest Street Gang. You mess with them, they mess you up.
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It’s quite possible that the history on this gun raises questions. And eyewitnesses are rather notorious for making mistakes and/or identifying the wrong perpetrator. I think citizens using their phones to capture police actions may eventually end the excesses of bad cops.
That’s some hair-raising reading.
Wonder why they didn’t just kill him too.
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