Friday, March 9, 2007

Abner Louima



In 1997 Hatian immigrant was arrested outside a Brooklyn night club, but nots all that happen that night. When he was arrested, he wasnt beaten on ar shot 41 times he was tortured and "sodomized" by two officers. Officer Thomas Weise and officer Thomas Bruder took Abner Louima to the 70th precint and while he was in hand cuffs two more officers came in and tortued him. While Charles Schwarz held him down then
Justin Volpe stuck a broken broom stick in his anus tearing a one- inch hole in his rectum and bladder. Volpe is serving 30 years in prison while Schwarz faces up to life for holding down the victim while Volpe sodomized him. In this justice was served, all the officers that particpated in this crime were convicted and are doing time. But the victim still has to live with the images of his torture and his injuries.

Wednesday, March 7, 2007

Amado Diallo

On february 4, 1999 four N.Y. city officers shot and killed Amadou Dillao for know reason. He was a immigrant from Guinea, West Africa. He was coming home late one night and four plain clothes police officers rushed him and he went to pull out his wallet to show the officers his I.D. and they started shooting,41 bullets fired and 19 bullets ripped through this innocents man body killing him.Then the those same four cops ran in his house and tried to look for something that could explain the reason why they have just killed an innocent unarmed black man. It gets even worse then that,in march 2000 a state court acquitted the four cops of all charges then the U.S. justice system said that they werent going to file federal civil rights charges against the four cops. Just like the Rodney King case know justice was served!

Rodney King



In the year of 1991 a man by the name of Rodney king was tortured by the police in L.A. He was a taxi driver and lived a normal life until that night he was struck more then 50 times with metal botans by 4 white officers. He desereved to get punished but not in the way he was that night. Those officers violated his civil rights to the highest degree, they put him in the hospital with serious injuries. Even though the video was entered into evidence during the trial an all white jury ruled that there wasn' t enough evidence to convict the 4 officers. After the trail the residents of L.A. formed a riot and 54 people lost there lives. But this trail just proves that racism still exist with our government and country.