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The 24-year-old Brooklyn tattoo artist (pictured) who says three police officers beat and sodomized him in the Prospect Park subway station last October will be suing the city. Michael Mineo's lawyer tells the Post his client will seek $220 million in damages for the "physical pain, suffering and mental anguish, along with punitive damages suffered." In December, a grand jury indicted the three officers, and a criminal trial is expected to begin this fall. Mineo says the brutality took place after he ran from cops who accused him of smoking marijuana as he approached the station around noon on October 15th, 2008. After they apprehended him near the token booth, Mineo says Officer Richard Kern sodomized him with a baton. A transit cop who was in the station is expected to testify that he saw Kern put his baton on Mineo's buttocks. The damages sought in his civil lawsuit dwarf the money sought in other police brutality lawsuits—by comparison, Abner Louima, who was Mineo's predecessor in the annals of NYPD sodomy victims, sued the city for $155 million back in 2001, but got $8.6 million in a settlement.
Man Accusing NYPD of Subway Sodomy Sues for $220 Million
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"the 'annals' of NYPD sodomy victims"
John, you are the editorial savior of Gothamist.
LOL! You are so right!
This is actually a heartwarming story. The "victim" is a mutt who had a gang assault prior. And he ran into the cop, Kern, who is a nut and will be fired. Win/Win/Win
It would be a lot easier to care about these cases if the victims weren't scumbags in their own right. As is, I hope the vic and the cop both get hit by cars walking out of the courthouse.
Sorry. Trying to reply to Angelheaded Hipster.
Obviously the idea is to shoot the moon for punitive damages and hope for a smaller (but still hefty) settlement... but how do they arrive at these numbers? Why $220M instead of $200M or $250M? Is there a Blue Book for Alleged Unwanted Anal Assault?
Annals. Ha.
hopefully this will result in an oddly perfect justice situation being served. Officer Kern sodomizes man by force on train before trying to arrest man. Man tells story, Officer is one who is indicted and arrested, sent to jail, and well, the sodomy in jail, you know the rest.
Oh my god it was so terrible!!!
But me some money and that will make it all better.
Cash award 25,000.
Get lost scumbag.
Nah. 100 bucks for another tattoo.
'I got sodomized by the NYPD and all I got was this lousy tattoo'
Can these settlements start getting paid out of the coffers of the Policemen's Pension fund, rather than using our tax dollars to pay for their fuckups?
Amen to that! You would think the NYPD would learn from their own mistakes and lost lawsuits, but I guess that takes intelligence and wisdom; two things they sorely lack.
I know I'm late, but "annals?" Brilliant.
"He was then taken to the hospital ... [and] was released after five days"
5 days?? What a sham. It wasn't a broomstick, it was a walkie talkie antenna.
I say give the guy $1 million and then watch him get robbed and scammed into bankruptcy by his "friends".
He hit the cloaca superfecta.
I don't know the going rate for sodomy, but in a country and culture of litigation, how does one come up with a figure of 220 million?
I'll let three cops sodomize me for 200k. Recession and what not.
I'm not surprised. Of course the NYPD attracts this type of recruit, what with the whole domination and handcuffs thing.
One time I had some trouble swiping my card at a turnstile when an undercover cop behind me grabbed my arm with the MetroCard in it. Didn't say a word for a while, just held it. Was at an NYU stop, so he asked me "Are you a student?" before even saying NYPD or anything. Creeped me the f*ck out, but from the look in his eyes I could see the perverse sense of pleasure he was getting from it, as if he'd done it a hundred times before in secluded rest stops.
The pretense was that I was beating the fare by bending my MetroCard. Yeah, right... Bunch of sexually frustrated dudes in the Men in Blue.
If gun control laws in New York weren't so strict, the cops think twice before acting like that. But, when you put the control of weapons in the hands of the government, the government will use them to control you, not protect you.
I'd tap that.