Summary

New York's top official is demanding more answers in a case of alleged police brutality

Source CONUS Archive
Record ID 11217
Story Slug GIULIANI WANTS ANSWERS IN ABUSE CASE (8/15/1997)
Location BROOKLYN, NEW YORK
Format Vosot*
Date 08/15/1997
Archive Time 16:58
TRT 4:18
Supers Brooklyn, New York Mayor Rudolph Guiliani (R) New York Mayorial Canidate Al Sharpton Former Mayor David Dinkins Roy Innis, Executive Director of CORE Congress of Racial Equality
Video Description Workers digging through items from sewer, claw picking up items, workers find machete, Investigators picking up numerous found knives, Giuliani sot, Dinkins sot, Sharpton next to Dinkins sot, victim's lawyer, street shot
Description New York's top official is demanding more answers in a case of alleged police brutality
Script Story Information: New York's top official is demanding more answers in a case of alleged police brutality Mayor Rudolf Guiliani wants to know why officers waited 90 minutes before getting a badly beaten man to the hospital Abner Louima is recovering from his injuries in a hospital The Haitian immigrant claims officers beat him while he was handcuffed shouted racial slurs and sodomized him with the handle of a toilet plunger Former New York Mayor David Dinkins is one Louiama's many visitors since being hospitalized So far, Justin Volpe is the only officer charged in the case He's free on bail Eleven other officers have been pulled from active duty
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Keywords

Louima
police brutality
police abuse
torture
sodomy
NYPD
Giuliani
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