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...status as a testing ground for a developing liberal response to Republican governance. It all began in late summer, when a Haitian immigrant named Abner Louima was brutalized by New York City police officers. The officers attacked him savagely, first beating him and then sodomizing him with a toilet plunger. During the incident, one of the officers allegedly remarked, "It's Giuliani time,"suggesting that the Mayor had embraced a laissez faire attitude toward police brutality. Finally, the embattled New York liberals had their issue...
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...