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...There's a wonderful conspiracy that we will all pretend that Teller never talks. I was once in Times Square, and a cop stuck out his nightstick, hit me right in the chest and said, "Name?" And I said, "Teller." He nudged his partner and said, "See. I told you I could make him talk...
Gatten, a resident of Eliot House, said that the police officer had his nightstick out when making the arrest...
...officer, about 15 feet from the nearest protester, idly drew his nightstick. A photographer rushed close to him, knelt and made ready to photograph the riot-ready policeman with nightstick drawn. The officer, noticing the man with the camera, quickly slid his baton back into his belt before the photographer could click the shutter open...
Suppose that on one fateful night in August 1997, New York City cop Justin Volpe had contented himself with pummeling Abner Louima with his nightstick instead of ramming a broom handle into Louima's rectum and then waving it in front of his face. Suppose that after that vicious assault, Volpe had not pranced around the precinct house with the blood-and-feces-stained stick, inviting other cops to examine it. And suppose the victim had not made the headline-grabbing (though phony) allegation that his tormentors had exulted, "This is Giuliani time!"--a reference to the city's tough...
Lewis was hit on the head by a nightstick...