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	Workers World May 20, 1999: Abner Louima testifies on 1997 police torture
		With great courage and dignity, Haitian immigrant Abner Louima took the witness stand in federal court in Brooklyn May 6 to testify against four white cops who beat him and later tortured and raped him in the bathroom of a Brooklyn police station in August 1997.
		Louima was thrown to the ground in front of eyewitnesses, handcuffed, and stuffed into a police car where he was beaten.
		Louima's torture sparked massive demonstrations and outrage in New York and Haiti in the summer of 1997.
	www.workers.org /ww/1999/louima0520.php (954 words)

	Abner Louima
		Officer Justin Volpe first kicked Louima in the groin, then, while Louima's hands were cuffed behind his back, sodomized him with a plunger handle, causing severe internal damage to his intestines and bladder that required several operations to repair.
		Louima's teeth were also badly damaged in the attack, and he claimed that the police officers involved in the attack called him a "nigger."
		Louima's subsequent civil suit against the city resulted in a settlement of $8.75 million, the largest police brutality settlement in New York City history.
	www.afrostyly.com /uk-us/afro/news/abner_louima.htm (416 words)

	Louima trial: New York cop pleads guilty to immigrant's torture
		While Abner Louima himself took the stand and pointed to Volpe as the man who tortured him, it was the testimony of four cops that provided the overwhelming evidence that forced the guilty plea.
		Louima, 19-year-old Connele Lugg, said he heard screaming and banging against the wall before Louima, smelling of feces, was dumped into a cell next to his.
		Louima told her that he was arrested, beaten in a patrol car at two locations and then taken to the stationhouse bathroom where an officer “shoved a plunger into his ass and then shoved it into his mouth”.
	www.wsws.org /articles/1999/may1999/nyc-m31.shtml (1713 words)

	RW ONLINE:The Police Torture of Abner Louima
		Abner Louima was arrested in front of the Rendez-Vous Club in Flatbush, Brooklyn late one night--when police arrived in force to break up a fight outside the club.
		Abner Louima was taken, bleeding and clearly brutalized, through the precinct to a holding cell, where he was left for three hours.
		It broke into the news--in part because Abner Louima himself survived and dared to tell what the police had done, in part because the Louima family was determined to bring it to light, and in part because the specific details of this brutality were so extreme and infuriating.
	rwor.org /a/v19/920-29/925/louima.htm (1868 words)

	Abner Louima (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Abner Louima was arrested outside a nightclub in 1997, handcuffed and taken to Brooklyn's 70th Precinct.
		The assault by law enforcement officers included "shoving a wooden stick into his rectum and mouth while his hands were handcuffed behind his back." Abner suffered a torn bladder and intestine and required several surgeries to repair the damage.
		Abner sued for $155 million in 1998, claiming officers conspired to create a "blue wall of silence and lies to obstruct justice." The city will pay $7.125 million and the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association (PBA) will pay $1.625 million.
	www.karisable.com /crlebcal.htm (214 words)

	CNN - NYC officer arrested in alleged sexual attack on suspect - Aug. 14, 1997
		Louima, who was arrested Saturday after a fight broke out at a local nightclub, was in critical condition after surgery to repair a puncture in his small intestine and an injury to his bladder.
		Louima was one of two men who police said interfered with officers trying to break up a fight between two women outside a nightclub called Club Rendez-vous.
		It was there that Louima says the officers pulled down his pants and led him to the bathroom, where they allegedly sodomized him with the plunger and then jammed the handle in his mouth.
	www.cnn.com /US/9708/14/police.torture (607 words)

	Abner Louima - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Louima also initially claimed that the officers involved in the attack called him a "nigger" and shouted, "This is Giuliani-time" during the beating.
		Louima later recanted this claim, and the reversal was used by defense lawyers to cast doubt on the entirety of his testimony.
		The Abner Louima case was mentioned in the 1998 Amnesty International report on the United States of America among several other cases of reported police brutality, torture and abuse.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Abner_Louima (1452 words)

	The Abner Louima case: three New York cops guilty in cover-up of torture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The third cop, Charles Schwarz, was convicted in a previous trial as an accomplice with Justin Volpe in torturing the immigrant worker inside the bathroom of the 70th Precinct in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn.
		Volpe, convicted of sodomizing Louima with a broken piece of a broomstick, tearing a one-inch hole in his rectum and bladder, was sentenced to 30 years in prison.
		Unlike the first Louima trial, where all of the cops remained mute, Schwarz took the stand in his own defense and Volpe was also brought from prison to testify that it had been Weise, not Schwarz, who was with him in the bathroom during his torture of the immigrant worker.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2000/mar2000/loui-m09.shtml (1258 words)

	CNN.com - Transcript: Abner Louima attorney press conference - February 28, 2002
		Louima is fully willing to cooperate, again, with the federal prosecutors, as he has in the past.
		Abner was the victim of an assault by Justin Volpe that was perhaps one of the worst examples of police brutality in the history of this country.
		He did to Abner Louima a crime of a magnitude that we in this country could not attempt to envision, but it happened, he pled guilty to it, he acknowledged that it happened, and he is doing a long prison term, and in that regard, justice has been done.
	edition.cnn.com /2002/LAW/02/28/rubenstein.louima.presser/index.html (701 words)

	At Trial, NYPD Officers Accused Of 'Cruel and Inhumane' Attack
		But an attorney for one of the officers accused of violating the civil rights of Abner Louima said Louima was lying and had told ``inconsistent stories'' about the alleged assault Aug. 9, 1997, that provoked an outcry against alleged racism and brutality in the ranks of the New York Police Department.
		Louima, who is fl, has said that in the 70th precinct station house bathroom, Officer Charles Schwarz, 33, held him down while Officer Justin Volpe, 26, rammed a wooden stick into his rectum and mouth.
		The attorney said that one inconsistency in Louima's story was that he had first reported a toilet plunger was used in the attack but then changed it to a wooden stick.
	afgen.com /haitian_immigrant.html (641 words)

	Three Convictions Overturned in Louima Torture Case DAVID STOUT NY Times 28feb02 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Louima down in the bathroom and was sentenced to nearly 16 years in prison, was denied a fair trial because his lawyer, Stephen C. Worth, had conflicts of interest representing him, and because the jury was exposed to prejudicial information during deliberations.
		Louima and his family once lived, there was a muted mix of suspicion and upset, acceptance and a desire to move on.
		Louima led last year to an $8.75 million settlement by the city, whose $7.125 million share was the largest ever in a brutality case, and the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, which was accused of conspiring in a cover-up.
	www.mindfully.org /Reform/2002/Louima28feb02.htm (6968 words)

	Brutality survivor slams Bell shooting - Abner Louima, a survivor of New York police brutality, sharp...
		NEW YORK, Dec. 12 (UPI) -- Abner Louima, a survivor of New York police brutality, sharply criticized police for the shooting death of a groom-to-be during his bachelor party.
		Louima said the 50-shot barrage that killed Sean Bell while he was leaving a strip club Nov. 25 was "outrageous" and called on the New York Police Department to change its policies on undercover operations in fl neighborhoods, the New York Daily News reported Tuesday.
		Louima, who now lives in Florida, said he plans to attend a rally Saturday in New York to protest the shooting.
	www.politicalgateway.com /news/read/52707 (178 words)

	Court TV Online - U. S.
		Louima has also accused Volpe and Schwarz, along with Wiese and Thomas Bruder, Volpe's partner that night, of beating him on two separate occasions in the police cruiser on the way to the 70th Precinct station house.
		Louima, 32, was arrested during a confrontation with police as the officers tried to disperse a rowdy crowd of hundreds leaving a Haitian nightclub at about 4 a.m.
		Louima is represented in his civil lawsuit by Peter Neufeld, Johnnie Cochran, and Barry Scheck, the "Dream Team" lawyers who won O.J. Simpson's acquittal.
	www.courttv.com /archive/national/louima/051099_ctv.html (780 words)

	Urban Dictionary: abner louima
		One victim of police brutality during Guliani's rule was Abner Louima, a Haitian immigrant arrested outside a nightclub.
		While handcuffed, Louima was sodomized with a wooden stick in a bathroom at the 70th precinct in Brooklyn.
		However, the officers were nearly acquitted when Louima was found to have fabricated part of his story, initially alleging that the officers told him that "it's Guiliani Time, not Dinkins Time," then recanting.
	www.urbandictionary.com /define.php?term=abner+louima (708 words)

	Break for 3 Louima Cops
		Abner is a victim, and as long as it takes, we will cooperate with the federal government to see to it that justice is done," Louima's lawyer, Stanford Rubenstein said.
		Louima was brutalized in the bathroom and spent two months in the hospital with a ruptured bladder and colon.
		Louima sued the city and the police union and settled in July for $8.7 million - the largest payout in a police brutality case in New York.
	www.nycpba.org /archive/cbs/02/cbs-020228-louima.html (736 words)

	CNN - Prosecution concludes arguments in Louima case - June 2, 1999
		Louima was taken to the bathroom of a Brooklyn police station, where one officer sodomized him with a stick
		Officers Charles Schwarz, 33, Thomas Wiese, 35, and Thomas Bruder, 33, are accused of violating Louima's civil rights by beating him in a squad car on the way to the police station on August 9, 1997.
		Schwarz is also accused of holding Louima down, while Officer Justin Volpe sodomized him in a precinct bathroom with a wooden stick.
	cnnstudentnews.cnn.com /US/9906/02/louima.trial.04 (470 words)

	CNN.com - Abner Louima testifies at retrial of ex-officer - June 25, 2002
		Louima remained calm and unemotional during more than 90 minutes of rigorous cross-examination by Ronald Fischetti, the attorney for Schwarz.
		Louima said at the time that his attackers said "this is not Dinkins Time, this is Giuliaini Time." Louima long ago admitted he uttered the politically charged falsehood in an effort to bring attention to his case.
		Louima has testified at three previous trials in connection with this case.
	edition.cnn.com /2002/LAW/06/25/police.beating.trial/index.html?related (568 words)

	$8.7 Million Settlement Reached In Abner Louima Police Brutality Lawsuit - Brief Article Jet - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Abner Louima, the New York-based Haitian immigrant who was tortured by White cops in a police station bathroom in 1997, will receive an $8.7 million settlement.
		Louima was arrested in a street brawl outside a Brooklyn nightclub on Aug. 9, 1997.
		Louima said at the press conference that he plans to use a portion of the proceeds from his settlement to "create a new organization for victims of police brutality and their families."
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1355/is_7_100/ai_76997717 (445 words)

	Catholic New York - Lead Story
		Abner Louima is the young Haitian immigrant who was the victim of a violent torture episode in a Brooklyn station house after his arrest in 1997 following a disturbance in a Brooklyn nightclub.
		The medical evidence made it plain that Louima had been subjected to unspeakable acts of depravity, in all likelihood while he was in police custody.
		In fact, police officers share the dismay of their fellow New Yorkers that one individual was brutalized the way Abner Louima was that night in 1997.
	www.cny.org /archive/ed/ed061799.htm (502 words)

	RW ONLINE:The Abner Louima Trial
		Louima, still handcuffed, was then put in a cell, his pants still down, covered in blood and feces.
		Kornberg's questions to Louima were the kind of questions rape victims have to field, and raise the image of the rape occurring once more, only this time in public.
		What happened to Abner Louima was so outrageous and exposing the authorities need to have people believe their legal system will "handle this." But this is a tightrope for the authorities.
	www.rwor.org /a/v21/1005-009/1007/louima.htm (1494 words)

	village voice > news > The Louima Millions by Peter Noel
		He said he remembered Louima saying the settlement would be the largest ever paid out by the city in a police brutality case and that the PBA might crack under pressure from his attorneys and disavow the blue wall of silence.
		Louima also complained of the "48-hour rule," which allows officers under investigation not to speak to anyone except their attorneys for two days.
		Louima's lawyers claimed victory, taking credit for extracting reforms from the city and the union to eliminate what Louima's suit called an "environment in which the most violent police officers believed they would be insulated" from prosecution.
	www.villagevoice.com /news/0129,noel,26469,5.html (1684 words)

	Abner Louima (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
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	Compensating Abner Louima (The New York Times) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		New York City and its police union have reached a tentative agreement to pay $8.6 million to Abner Louima, the Haitian immigrant who was tortured by a white police officer in a Brooklyn precinct bathroom in 1997.
		Louima was brutalized by Justin Volpe, the policeman sentenced to 30 years in prison for ramming a stick into Mr.
		Louima down, and four others were convicted for covering up the illegal and inhuman act.
	www.jessejacksonjr.org /issues/i0324012992.html (458 words)

	CNN.com - Transcripts
		RUBENSTEIN: I have spoken to Abner, and Abner is a victim, and he wants to be able to live his life with his family in privacy, so he will have not comment in regard to this.
		He has made it very clear that he, and collectively, Abner Louima, as well as the other attorneys involved, are very disappointed about today's federal appeals court overturning of the convictions of three of the police officers who had been convicted of helping in the assault of Abner Louima back in 1997.
		WHITFIELD: And Abner Louima's attorney made it very clear that this overturning of this case has no impact on the settlement of his $8.7 million that he received from the city and the police department in his civil suit.
	cnnstudentnews.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0202/28/se.02.html (1328 words)

	Abner Louima
		Le 9 Août 1997, Abner Louima, d’origine haïtienne, fut brutalisé et sodomisé; par des policiers new-yorkais.
		Il a également dit a Louima qu’il le tuerai si jamais il racontait se qui s’était passé.
		Abner Louima a du subir plusieurs opérations chirurgicales…
	www.afrostyly.com /afro/actualite/abner_louima.htm (175 words)

	Court TV Legal Documents: Abner Louima Case Indictment
		The investigation of the Louima incident was conducted by the U.S. Attorney's Office, the FBI and the Internal Affairs department of the NYPD.
		According to the indictment, the assault on Louima involved the officers "shoving a wooden stick into his rectum and mouth while his hands were handcuffed behind his back." Louima suffered a torn bladder and intestine and required several surgeries to repair the damage.
		On or about August 9, 1997, in a rest room at the 70th Precinct, the defendants JUSTIN VOLPE and CHARLES SCHWARZ hit and physically assaulted Abner Louima, by kicking him and by shoving a wooden stick into his rectum and mouth while his hands were handcuffed behind his back.
	www.courttv.com /archive/legaldocs/newsmakers/louima.html (1041 words)

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