Word: louima
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...teeth. It really happened even earlier, with the age of Giuliani and his turnaround of the crime situation. People were so afraid of getting on the wrong side of him that there was very little critical coverage at the time, so it all came out in the coverage of Louima and Diallo, which are two of the most horrific incidents that occurred. [Abner Louima is a Haitian immigrant who was brutally assaulted by a police officer in a Brooklyn precinct house in 1997. Amadou Diallo was an unarmed Guinean immigrant killed by police in 1999 in a hail...
CONVICTION OVERTURNED. CHARLES SCHWARZ, 36, former New York City police officer jailed for participating in the torture of Haitian immigrant Abner Louima after his arrest in 1997; in New York City. The court ruled that Schwarz's attorney had a conflict of interest in representing him and that jurors had been exposed to prejudicial information. The ruling also overturned the convictions of Schwarz and two other officers for obstruction of justice. It does not affect Justin Volpe, the officer who pleaded guilty to torturing Louima with a broomstick and was sentenced to 30 years in prison...
...TIME.com asked Steven Lubet, director of the trial advocacy program at Northwestern University, to discuss the implications of the Louima case, and the options open to the prosecution following Thursday's decision...
...ruling sparked outrage and talk of protests from many New Yorkers, including the Rev. Al Sharpton, who, alongside attorney Johnny Cochran, had rallied support for Louima. Sharpton decried the decisions Thursday morning, calling it "a shocking display of how the judicial system continues to fail to protect citizens from police abuse." He also urged U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer to take this case into consideration during deliberations over the appointment of a new U.S. attorney for New York. "We will now be facing new prosecutors who may or may not have the same dedication" to justice as their predecessors, Sharpton declared...
...charge was that he was effectively denied counsel and that the jury was exposed to prejudicial information during deliberations. What happened was, the jury deciding his case heard that Volpe had pleaded guilty. Later, of course, Volpe admitted to federal officers that another officer was there while he attacked Louima - but insists it wasn't Schwarz...