Garner vid guy is free on bail

THE MAN who videotaped Eric Garner’s chokehold death was released from jail — his bail raised via a rare online fund-raiser — Friday after prosecutors removed their initial objection to the unconventional philanthropy.

Ramsey Orta, 23, of Staten Island, spent the past two months on Rikers Island on just under $100,000 bail after getting busted in February on charges he sold drugs to undercover cops.

A campaign on gofundme.com gathered steam in recent days, raising $47,500 from 1,865 donors as of Friday afternoon — well over the approximately $12,000 needed to secure a bond. But there was one more hurdle. At his arraignment, prosecutors asked for a hearing on the source of any bail, a common practice in drug cases to ensure the release is not the fruit of ill-gotten gains.

And when the bond was secured, the district attorney’s office raised objections Thursday and a hearing was scheduled for Monday. After an outcry on social media, it was pushed up to Friday afternoon.

By then, prosecutors did an about-face.

“Upon review of materials provided by the bail bondsman . . . it appears it’s in compliance,” assistant district attorney Adam Silberlight said, adding that their initial resistance was based on how the online fund-raiser squared with the statute.

A law enforcement source said GETTY it took a while to review the about 300 pages that listed all the donors, most of whom chipped in about $10 each.

A judge then signed off on the bond.

“We’re glad the district attorney’s office realized this was the right thing to do,” said Orta’s lawyer, Ken Perry, who earlier accused prosecutors of “playing games.”

Perry said Orta was “touched” bythe “outpouring of sympathy and support by people who don’t know him from a hole in the wall.”