Brooklyn Man Allegedly Beaten By NYPD Officers

By Diane Smith
21:18, October 25th 2008
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An investigation into a possible beating and sodomizing of a man by uniformed NYPD officers is under way. The incident reportedly happened in a Brooklyn subway station according to the victim’s lawyers.

Michael Mineo, a 24-year-old Brooklyn resident, has allegedly received a summons for disorderly conduct on Oct. 15 after three police officers held him down and shoved an object into his rectum, repeatedly!

The man’s lawyers claim that the object may have been a police radio or baton.

"The cops did this to me," the man told the Daily News from his hospital bed.
"They did it to me. I'm in so much pain now. They just drained 50 ccs of poisonous blood from me. I've got pus coming out of me, man. I need help!"

Mineo spent four days at the Brookdale University Medical Center, a fact confirmed by the medical facility’s officials.

The Police Department responded by informing the media about the ongoing investigation into the case, but the department spokesman Paul Browne said that the facts did not support the accusation. According to Browne, the man was chased by the three police officers for smoking marijuana, and when they caught him he resisted handcuffing. His claims that the cops sodomized him are not supported by independent civilian witnesses that were present there and then.

The complaint is currently investigated by a team of 20 investigators from the Internal Affairs Bureau.

Mineo’s case resembles a similar case that occurred in 1997, but this time the victim’s injuries weren’t as bad as the ones Abner Louima suffered. He was left in critical condition with a torn bladder and other internal injuries after a stick was shoved up his rectum inside the 70th Precinct.



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