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October 28, 2008

Grand Jury to Probe Allegations of Police Beating in Brooklyn
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In news from New York, the Brooklyn district attorney has decided to
have a special investigative grand jury examine allegations that police
officers beat and sodomized a twenty-four-year-old man at a subway
station last week. Michael Mineo says four police officers brutally
assaulted him by throwing him to the ground. Mineo said an object,
possibly the antenna of a police radio, penetrated his rectum. The
police have rejected his account. Mineo was hospitalized for five days,
and hospital discharge papers said his injuries are consistent with that
type of assault. The alleged incident mirrors the case of Abner Louima,
a Haitian immigrant who was attacked with a broomstick in a Brooklyn
police station in 1997.



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