Slashed in jail, says Garner-slaying filmer

The man who filmed the police killing of Eric Garner was slashed in the face earlier this month at a city jail, according to a notice of claim filed Friday.

The laceration to Ramsey Orta’s face on Nov. 12 caused “permanent disfigurement,” according to the document obtained by the Daily News, which is filed in anticipation of a lawsuit. The troubled Staten Island resident was attacked by an inmate while sleeping in his cell at the Vernon C. Bain Center in the Bronx, according to Orta’s lawyer, Andrew Plasse. Orta plans to seek $10 million, the document states.

Orta is being held on charges of assault in the third degree for allegedly hitting a woman on Aug. 30 in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. He’s also accused by the feds of illegal gun possession.

The Department of Correction failed to protect Orta despite his status as a high-profile inmate vulnerable to attack, the notice of claim states.

Orta has had numerous run-ins with the law since filiming Garner’s final breaths in a police chokehold in 2014. He completed four years in prison in June for gun and drug charges. He claimed in a letter that while behind bars he was beaten by correction officers and thrown in solitary in retaliation for the Garner video.