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Fearing for his life

By Chloé Cooper Jones · The Verge · March 2019
Pulitzer Prize
Fearing for his life
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"He filmed the killing of Eric Garner. The video traveled far, but it wouldn’t get justice for his dead friend. Instead, the NYPD would exact their revenge through targeted harassment and eventually imprisonment—Orta’s punishment for daring to show the world police brutality."

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