Word: plunger
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Others held plungers-in view until the forum had ended-which was a reference to the alleged NYPD beating of a Haitian immigrant using a toilet plunger...
Police brutality works only in the dark. The sadistic assault on Abner Louima, the Haitian immigrant who was allegedly sodomized with a toilet-plunger handle by New York City police, was supposed to be confined to a station-house bathroom. But now that the attack is a public outrage--his injuries took him to the hospital, and from there to newspaper front pages--much more is at stake than just the reputation of Brooklyn's 70th Precinct, where four officers face charges. All around the country, the aggressive, "zero tolerance" policing strategy--which has contributed to New York's plummeting...
...beaten as police drove to Brooklyn's 70th Precinct station house. But it was after he got there that the real nightmare began: as he tells it, he was strip-searched, then two cops took him into a bathroom and shoved a wooden pole, perhaps belonging to a toilet plunger, into his rectum. (Once Louima was hospitalized--after 1 1/2 hours at the station house--doctors found he had a ripped bladder and a punctured lower intestine.) Louima says the officers then forced the stick into his mouth, breaking his front teeth. As all this took place, Louima claims, police...
...started out with an unspeakably horrible alleged assault on a single Haitan suspect in Brooklyn. Now it's gone Federal. The pain of 30-year-old Abner Louima, who says he was sexually tortured with a toilet plunger by police at New York's 70th Precinct, has been felt across the country. Today the Justice Department announced it would be stepping...
...idea of a massively expensive media buy that kept Democrats scrambling to pay the bills (see above: Al Gore, problems of). But just as Morris emerged on the cover of TIME and the President headed for his acceptance speech at the Democratic Convention, the supermarket tabloid Star pushed the plunger on the dynamite Morris rested upon. A paid companion told just how she had companioned Morris in his Washington hotel suite and played footsie with his face. Later it came to light that he had fathered a daughter by a woman in Texas, news that did nothing to smooth relations...