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Police brutality victim MIichael Mineo, of Brooklyn, speaks to the media outside Brooklyn state supreme court Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2008, in New York, following the arraignment of three police officers charged with felonies for an attack last Oct. 15 on the tattoo parlor worker. ((AP Photo/ Louis Lanzano))
Here's a lede you don't see every day, courtesy the NY Times: "A New York City patrolman used his baton to sodomize a man in a subway station, and two complicit colleagues helped him cover it up, the Brooklyn district attorney charged on Tuesday as he unsealed indictments against three police officers. Using graphic detail, the district attorney described an attack that he said left the man, Michael Mineo, with a gashed anus and blood on his hands." (We'll miss you when you're gone, paper of record.)
The accused officers appeared in Brooklyn Supreme Court yesterday for the arraignment, during which D.A. Charles Hynes charged that immediately following the subterranean violation, Mineo showed officers the blood only to be ignored. Officer Richard Kern, the sodomite in question, allegedly told him "that if he reported the circumstances to anyone, he would be arrested and charged with a felony." Hynes also compared the incident to the other notorious NYPD anal rape, that of Abner Louima 11 years ago, and he took pains to make sure the jury understood "the comparison, is that the allegation that an instrument in each case was shoved up someone’s anus." Got it!
The Daily News has it that a plainclothes cop in the courtroom yesterday called Mineo a faggot, to which he responded by blowing a kiss. At a press conference later, Hynes told reporters that Kern, age 25, could be sentenced to 25 years in prison. Officers Alex Cruz and Andrew Morales have been charged with hindering prosecution and official misconduct for allegedly covering up the incident. Cruz's lawyer insists the D.A. doesn't "even have a paper-thin case." And Police union chief Patrick Lynch says the public should withhold judgment until the jury reaches a verdict: "We have earned the benefit of a doubt with our blood and sacrifice."
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I don't want to be on this jury.
"Subway sodomites" ----- Hahaha! Lovely turn of phrase. Very biblical. Stay turned for fire and brimstone raining down from the heavens.
I give it another week before the gay sex ads at the back of the Village Voice offer walkie talkie antennas up the butt as part of the service.
"an off-duty officer in the courtroom yesterday called Mineo a faggot"
I respect the mission of the NYPD and FDNY, but there are some truly chauvinistic, homophobic, racist, dismissive, knuckle-dragging cronies with too much power and license out there.
Who's to say Mineo wasn't on his way home from a purely recreational 'anus gashing'?
How Ironic. They Sodomize the guy against his will and they're calling HIM a faggot...
Felix- LMFAO
#3 I hear the word "faggot" used by gay people more than anyone else. They really should stop using it themselves before they feign moral indignation whenever someone else uses it.
@think twice:
the officer actually may NOT have been off-duty. many use their shifts to pack the courts in support of their own. since it has become controversial for courts to be filled with uniformed officers, many have been required or volunteered to forgo the uniform. so, yeah, there is too much of what you say there is in the nypd, etc. and they totally don't care if they are doing it on our taxpayer dollar.
They should put these cops in the same cell with Justin Volpe, a broomstick and a can of Crisco and let them have a 25-year-long anus gashing party.
Police brutality victim Michael Mineo, of Brooklyn, has already begun spending the money he knows he'll receive through his no-chance-of-losing lawsuit. "Sure, at first the baton in my butt hurt a bit, but then I thought about a new fixed-gear bike and a week in the Bahamas and the pain was washed away."
Sorry, I do actually feel awful for this fellow, and I expect he'll sue, and I think he has every right to do so. It's unfortunate that this happened, that these cops were morons who hurt the reputations of good cops, and that they've opened the door for yet further litigation that will be funded by the taxpayers.
lol Kojak
word.
"...with a gashed anus and blood on his hands."
That sounds like something bigger than a walkie talkie antenna was up there. It may well turn out this guy was having some rough gay sex before the cops stopped him.
Innocent till proven guilty; ever heard that expression?
The NYPD defended its probe into the attack...
Oh. Come. On. Stop it, Daily News.
@peanhuthead: That was my bad; I corrected it.
And Police union chief Patrick Lynch says the public should withhold judgment until the jury reaches a verdict: "We have earned the benefit of a doubt with our blood and sacrifice."
Uh, yeah, no - no member of the NYPD has earned the benefit of the doubt. Once the NYPD actually practices it's "Courteous, Professional and Respect" motto in all interactions maybe, just MAYBE, police officers will begin to get benefit of the doubt and the respect they seem to think they deserve.
they found dna on the baton,
the medical records show injury to anus,
they have 2 police witnesses who came forward,
they'll get off like OJ.
I like how when it's the boys in blue it's 'innocent until proven guilty' but when it's anyone else (gasp, even a black, or even a homo-sexual!) is charged with an analogous crime it's KILL THEM AND FEED THEIR CORPSES TO THE PIGEONS.
It was an antenna not baton.
Ides, I will happily stick one up your bum and we can see if there is any damage done. It's a date!
Subway Sodomites? Can we please have that as the name of the next sports team? PLEASE!
the plainclothes cop must be jealous that he has to pay for his anal rape. maybe he doesnt realize it will be free under congress' next stimulus package.
i'm uncomfortable
from what they showed on the tv news, the reporter whipped out an expandable baton and even mentions it as an "expandable baton".
here's a quote from above, "A New York City patrolman used his baton to sodomize a man in a subway station, and two complicit colleagues helped him cover it..
#17 "analogous crime"
Good one.
"It was an antenna not baton."
No, it was an expandable baton. Mineo didn't know what it was and guessed that it was a radio antenna, so that's where that report came from. Testimony from the transit cop on the scene was that it was the baton (sometimes called an "ASP," which is a brand name), and that's where Mineo's DNA was found.
This is the type of baton:
http://www.copquest.com/21-1000.htm
"We have earned the benefit of a doubt with our blood and sacrifice."
Lynch should realize that a little bit of that "benefit of doubt" erodes away every time one his union's bad apples disgraces the rest of them.
Mineo: "I'm going to be rich bitches.."
I think we need to let the jury analyze the evidence before rendering a verdict.
anal-yze
I recommend a sniff test of the evidence.
Are they sure it was a baton? Perhaps it was Lemmiwinks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcR3ZFlMYNQ
>> This is the type of baton:
http://www.copquest.com/21-1000.htm >>>
Well that just gets me excited.
i wonder if he called in sick to work today.
Damn... I can't believe the cops were stupid enough to sodomize the guy in broad daylight.
An ASP to the ass.
Called out Gay to work
Who wants fame predicated on being a spectacular victim?
That dude looks cute and those cops look latent.
The guy second from the left ain't on board.
^inorite!?lol
Sorry, I can't feel sorry for this loser. Let's see...
"NYPD officials said Mineo had been smoking a joint as he walked down the street..." [breaking the law #1]
"...and then ran when officers - who are black, Hispanic and white - approached." [breaking the law #2]
And let's not forget: Mineo is charged in an April gang assault at the tattoo parlor where he works. He's charged in the beating of a 14 year old and a 16 year old, one of whom now has to wear dentures because of the attack.
So he's a scofflaw and a child abuser. This guy is a piece of shit and got what he deserved.
So this is what happens when two dickbags collide.
Police: "We have earned the benefit of a doubt with our blood and sacrifice."
Um...fascism anyone?
I have one of those collapsible batons and they can be very gnarly. That said, I would never shove My Asp up anyone's ass. That would makle me an Asphole.
So true #40; yes innocent until proven guilty, but the city has already settled a lawsuit against this blue pervert. When will they dump these kinds of cops- any decent cop should be outraged.
kreetoo said>>[And let's not forget: Mineo is charged in an April gang assault at the tattoo parlor where he works. He's charged in the beating of a 14 year old and a 16 year old, one of whom now has to wear dentures because of the attack.]
ah, wait. if kreetoo is right, I'm on cops side in this.
For a homophobe Ides sure is obsessed with butts
I am trying not be prejudgemental, but doesn't the white cop look a little "weird"?
I thought the NYPD had much higher standards than this.
I wouldn't want to be standing next to him in the shower at the gym.