the at the time ramsey orta was hailed a hero for his video exposÉ, but that was before orta himselfwas thrown in jail. >> what are you going to do with the mess you're in today? >> i'm going to fight it. realizing that now i'm harassed. >> speaking to "america tonight" in august, orta says he was set up for illegally possessing a handgun. police said they saw him possessing a handgun. >> it was bowing us. they found him for -- they arrested him for finding a gun on him. >> we met up with his mother his wife and two children, down the street at a pizza shop, from where he filmed the video. interhave you ever seen him with a gun? >> never never. i said what are you talking about? i was in shock. orta's wife and mother said police had been following him around staten island ever since the video went viral. >> i have pictures of comes, looking and pointing and circle the block and shining the spotlight in our bedroom. >> chrisy ortiz told us she couldn't show us the pictures or video because an attorney advised her to keep it in a safe place. "america tonight" reached out to the nypd ab

said.a lot of he said/she >> that is ramsey orta.d i went to the protest stray from ferguson to staten island, i saw a ramsey and his wife christie. they were standing on the stoop where ramsey filmed. right next to that beauty salon were eric garner was taken down. i asked to talk to them, but they were too afraid. it was not only ramsey was arrested the day after the city medical examiner declared eric garner's death a homicide, but then his wife christie was also arrested. >> this is how the power structure works. it is almost a too perfect of an example where the police officer that chokes amanda death doesn't get indicted, the man that feels the police officer choking amended at gets indicted in his entire family is pressurized. this is not random happenstance. withis an overly working our criminal justice system where police officers have so much power and control that they can put pressure on witnesses, that they can make people's lives miserable until they get the result they want. but the result we want as a society is one i

. >> this is not the first time ramsey orta has been in trouble with the law.he has a long rap sheet including assault robbery charges and a 2013 arrest for allegedly menacing a woman with a handgun, but ramsey's wife said that that is irrelevant. >> they're trying to discredit him. at the end of the day regardless if it was the worse person in the world, the video shows exactly what happened. >> reporter: orta tells "america tonight" that he has no comment on the news that there will be no indictment in on the case because he's dealing with his own problems. he's awaiting trial scheduled for january 22nd. al jazeera, staten island. >> and orta did speak with the daily news after news surfaced there would be no indictment. he said he is not surprised and that the police are trying to sweep the case under the rug. >> reports of sexual assault in the military are on the rise. more than 5400 rapes and assaults were reported in 2014. that's up 8% from the year before. but the number of men and women assaulted is down by nearly 03%. pentagon officials say the increa

so it was a stunning decision. >> what is your reaction to that interview ramsey orta gave today? there is a sense in ferguson whether it's true or not but definitely there are some people who say bob mcculloch never wanted an indictment and the way he conducted the grand jury was to assure that outcome. do you feel the same way about donovan in staten island? >> i certainly do. what mr. orta said illustrates that. but even more important illustration of that, he gave all the officers who were present other than pantaleo immunity so that their testimony -- for their testimony so they would be immune from any kind of criminal prosecution. how he could do that in the face of the fact that mr. garner was we believe killed by not just one officer but a group of officers who not only compressed his neck but compressed his chest. so from the beginning of this process he granted immunity to officers who should have been suspects. >> so let me get this straight. he granted immunity -- we see a number of people in that infamous video of course. daniel pantaleo is the man who applies that a