Abner Louima Case Study

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Another major case involving with the excessive police brutality and the cruel injustice was the Abner Louima Case a 30-year-old Haitian immigrant with no criminal record man who had to undergo such brutality and gruesome assault by our fellow protectors. On August 9, 1997 outside a nightclub in Brooklyn, New York, Abner was arrested after police broke up the fight. On the way to the 70th Precinct station house officers, both officers Schwarz, Wiese, and Volpe punched, kicked and beat Louima with their police radio. Once they arrived to the police station he was not taken into custody more so dragged to the bathroom and sodomized him with a wooden stick, when they were done with Louima he broken serval of his teeth, a punctured colon, bladder

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