Charges Dropped After Video Evidence Proved NYPD Officers Brutalized Teen
The shaky and frenetic video, lasting less than a minute, appears to show two New York police officers holding a man on the floor, with one repeatedly slamming his right fist into the man’s face.
The man, Luis Solivan, 19, was later charged with assaulting an officer, but his case was dismissed after a grand jury watched the video, which an acquaintance shot through an apartment window in the Bronx, his lawyers say. Now, that same footage may emerge as crucial evidence in a civil rights lawsuit that Mr. Solivan’s lawyers filed on Monday in Federal District Court in Manhattan.
The lawsuit charges that the officers, after chasing Mr. Solivan into his family’s apartment on University Avenue on Nov. 14, engaged in a “brutal and sadistic” beating beyond what the video captured, also using pepper spray and slamming his head against a wall after he was handcuffed.
The officers have provided a different account. In a criminal complaint against Mr. Solivan, they charged that he attacked both officers and tried to take one of their guns. But a Bronx grand jury declined to indict Mr. Solivan on any of the charges.
Ilann M. Maazel, a lawyer representing Mr. Solivan, said that but for the video, “I think there’s a real likelihood that the grand jury would have indicted him.”
“What it shows is shocking,” Mr. Maazel added. “It revealed that the police did not tell the truth and they wanted to put an innocent man in jail, potentially for many years.”
A police spokesman, Paul J. Browne, said in a brief statement that Mr. Solivan, as the officers had claimed, tried to grab one of their guns. He added, without elaborating, that Mr. Solivan “would not cooperate” with the Civilian Complaint Review Board.
The lawsuit names the officers as Thomas Dekoker and Brian R. O’Keeffe. In an unrelated case, Officer Dekoker was one of three police defendants found liable this summer in a jury trial over allegations of using excessive force against a man after responding to a call in the Bronx in 2008.
The jury awarded $500,000 in punitive damages and $1 in compensatory damages against the three; the city has asked that the verdict be overturned.
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“An explosive Congressional investigation revealed horrific new details this week about a U.S. funded military hospital in Afghanistan that kept patients in “Auschwitz-like” conditions.
The investigation also revealed that Lt. General William B. Caldwell, then commander of the $11.2 billion dollar a year Afghan training program, tried to block the probe and ordered a cover-up.”
Please spread the word this will easily become forgotten .
no duh , corruption and greed lies within many charity organizations….if this is new then you best to keep your shiny dollar to yourself?
With the light of the kony movement , there are those who cry fowl at the Invisible Children group for not being the “saviors” their video propose them to be. Why is it only yesterday that a 30+year battle gains light I have no freaking clue, but I won’t stand back because something must be done regardless. These conflicts aren’t new and other countries suffer from the same crisis ! Remember when the earthquake hit Haiti and absolutely none of the donated money went to the people in need? Or when the Red Cross asked for people to donate blood after 9/11 for the victims(still a wtf scenario) then destroyed all the blood donated , or how PETA infamously kills pets for their “safety” when they are in a shelter ready for adoption. or those sad children commercials about hungry children that needs your money or else Sarah will not see another day. Oh remember how japan admitted that it used its donated funds to kill whales?(after the catastrophic tsunami)
Its everywhere guys, corruption, greed and evil lies in every crack. Dont donate because of puppy eyed videos, researching helps but there is always another puppy eyed organization in its mist.
So what can be done about the kony movement ? Another US intervention? NATO? UN conference? idk but another organization wont do the trick.
inb4 pandadought is an idiot.
I have a feeling the kony movement will loose momentum rather quickly till something else rises, something rather flashy .
Oh MSNBC you so crazy
I love how misleading your channel is and your general agenda. I hope that no one fell for this pathetic excuse of a commercial, deemed to brainwash the masses .
Listen up
The internet has more valuable resources than a news anchor with loads of makeup.
Because I want to enjoy life in this country and not be burdened by the lack of balance in our corrupt society
This was 11 days ago but jeeze the excessive force used against these non violent protesters is ridiculous. Is this why they deserve our respect ? and No i don’t mean punch a cop to even things out more of “Respect is given when respect is due” type of ideology.
They are lucky that people aren’t using stones or molotovs against the cops let alone set random cars on fire and loot stores to make a statement or to get media attention (thanks goodness for the internet)
I will be joining the protest on Monday. Lets hope I don’t witness the same type of brutality.
This is our future because we are 99% and yes this is only the beginning.
OH and can you say OWNED 10x’s http://youtu.be/WF2-BLyehYI
Because the future is truly in our hands , revolt
I wish I could join the fight but I need to balance out my school , i need my grades to get up a couple of notches =/. I do hope that the crowds increase by the masses each time . Main stream media should broadcast this EVERYDAY OF THE WEEK but i doubt it , not until someone dies or burns a car.
Reblog tumblr its your future too
:’) they make me so happy .
revolution , watch us now.
holy fuck art thief duchbaggery , he looks like a douche bag as well go figure
He is also the nephew of a politician , =____= seriously retarded shit
I am sure this problem is gaining more attention here, but this issue needs more light. I am an illustrator and I am always uneasy about putting my art works up here that I LOVE (I love exposure but not to that extent when it is stolen by heartless people and sold for profit.)
http://www.bleedingcool.com/forums/showthread.php?46205-Is-Joe-Lieberman-s-Nephew-The-New-Rob-Granito
http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/jnrf8/xpost_from_rartevidently_joseph_liebermans_nephew/
http://alexgarner.deviantart.com/journal/43310857/
http://alexiuss.deviantart.com/art/MASSIVE-COPYRIGHT-INFRINGEMENT-253771563
Iam sure its not only on deviant art but well known artist as well are being ripped off without them noticing until a little later.
I hope this asswhipe gets sued all the money and tears in the world .
http://www.thecampussocialite.com/new-york-multimedia-pop-artist-insures-his-own-nuts/
freaking sick
http://forums.colbertnation.com/?page=ThreadView&thread_id=28276
