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...called on the Irish authorities "to intensify their efforts to prevent ill-treatment by the police." The allegations contained in the CPT's report ranged from kicks and punches to severe beatings. Some detainees claimed they had been assaulted in a way that avoided leaving visible marks, including baton blows to a telephone directory placed against the head. "They may be using diplomatic language, but it is clear that the committee are not referring to a few bad apples - they are saying Ireland has a problem," says Aisling Reidy, director of the Irish Council for Civil Liberties. Reidy points...
Cicero then threw his club at another officer and was finally subdued and arrested after an officer struck him again with a baton...
Cambridge and Harvard police officers struck the suspect, William Cicero, with a baton and doused him with pepper spray after he refused to drop his weapons, said Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) spokesperson Steven G. Catalano...
After Cicero then threw the meat cleaver at police, an officer struck him twice with a baton, Catalano said...
ARRESTED. DERRICK TODD LEE, 34, for five murders in Baton Rouge, La.; in Atlanta. Police said Lee's DNA linked him to the "Louisiana Slasher" serial killings that kept Baton Rouge on edge for 18 months. He is also a suspect in several earlier murders...