Topic: Abner Louima

Wood: Get me rewrite

NY Daily News - 141 days ago
Mike McAlary was a Daily News columnist who exposed the shocking police torture of Haitian immigrant Abner Louima and won a Pulitzer Prize for it ...

Media-savvy lawyer defends maid in Strauss-Kahn case

Reuters US Online Report Top News - 178 days ago
NEW YORK (Reuters) - It was Kenneth Thompson's starring role in the prosecution of New York police accused of beating and sodomizing a Haitian immigrant that put the son of one of the city's first female beat cops on the map ...

Daly: A case for facts, not lies

NY Daily News - 210 days ago
The prosecutors in Brooklyn could have just walked away from the Abner Louima case just as the prosecutors in Manhattan are considering walking...

Sharpton: King's dream, nearly fulfilled

NY Daily News - 384 days ago
In April of this year, it will be 43 years since the assassination of this nation's premier civil rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. During...

Case alleging sodomy by police emerges in NY court

AP News - 425 days ago
Wall Street worker accuses NYC police of sodomy, echoing earlier headline-grabbing episodesA Wall Street financial worker says New York City police officers responding to a noisy domestic dispute in 2004 sodomized him with a baton, allegations that recall the more notorious cases ...

History is no guarantee of conviction in NYPD case

AP Features - 716 days ago
From the beginning, a drug suspect's accusation that an NYPD officer sodomized him with a baton recalled the notorious police abuse case of Abner Louima.Jurors on Thursday were weighing Michael Mineo's claims that an officer sodomized him with a ...

Study: 2,002 suspects died in police custody over 3 years; half were killed by officers

AP Features - 1577 days ago
More than 2,000 criminal suspects died in police custody over a three-year period, half of them killed by officers as they scuffled or attempted to flee, the government said Thursday.The study by the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics ...

Study: 2,002 died in custody in 3 years

AP News - 1577 days ago
Study: 2,002 Suspects Died in Police Custody Over 3 Years; Half Were Killed by OfficersMore than 2,000 criminal suspects died in police custody over a three-year period, half of them killed by officers as they scuffled or attempted to flee ...