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December 10, 2008

3 NYPD Officers Charged in Subway Assault Case
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And here in New York, three police officers have been charged for the
alleged assault and sodomizing of a twenty-four-year-old man at a
Brooklyn subway station in October. The alleged victim, Michael Mineo,
says the officers brutally assaulted him by throwing him to the ground.
Mineo said an object, possibly the antenna of a police radio, penetrated
his rectum. He was hospitalized for five days. The alleged incident
mirrors the case of Abner Louima, a Haitian immigrant attacked with a
broomstick in a Brooklyn police station in 1997. One officer has been
charged with aggravated sexual abuse, while the other two have been
charged with hindering prosecution and official misconduct.



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