News on Michael Mineo

Police Assault

2010-02-22T13:17:28Z

Michael Mineo comments at the National Action Network Headquarters Monday, Feb. 22, 2010, after A New York City police officer accused of a sodomy attack against him in a subway station was acquitted Monday along with two other officers who had been accused of covering it up. At right is Mineo's attorney ...

3 NYC police officers are acquitted in sodomy case

2010-02-22T19:30:23Z

<div><p>A New York City police officer accused of sodomizing a drug suspect in a subway station was acquitted Monday after defense attorneys spent weeks chipping away at the credibility of the accuser, a self-professed gang member who admitted to smoking pot regularly. Two colleagues were acquitted of a cover-up.</p><p>Officer Richard Kern had faced as many as...

New York police acquitted in sexual abuse of suspect

2010-02-22T16:15:56Z

<div><p>A New York police officer accused of using a baton to sodomize a man in a subway station was acquitted Monday along with two officers who allegedly covered up the incident.</p><p>The jury at the Brooklyn Supreme Court cleared Richard Kern, who had been accused of carrying out the assault...

APTOPIX Police Assault

2010-02-22T13:02:10Z

Michael Mineo, center, listens as Rev. Al Sharpton, right, makes remarks at the National Action Network Headquarters Monday, Feb. 22, 2010, after a New York City police officer accused of a sodomy attack against Mineo in a subway station was acquitted ...

Three NYC police acquitted in sodomy trial

2010-02-22T11:15:20Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters) - Three New York City police officers were acquitted on Monday on charges one of them sodomized a man with a police baton on a subway platform and two others helped cover it up.</p><p>After one full day of deliberations, and a relatively speedy four-week trial, a jury in NYPD sodomy case says after acquittal that he worries about his safety</div><div><p>The man who accused a New York policeman of sodomizing him with a baton says he's worried about his safety after the officer's acquittal.</p><p>Michael Mi...

History is no guarantee of conviction in NYPD case

2010-02-22T09:11:54Z

<div><p>From the beginning, a drug suspect's accusation that an NYPD officer sodomized him with a baton recalled the notorious police abuse case of Abner Louima.</p><p>Prosecutors said Louima's bladder and intestines were ruptured in the beating in a NYPD officer denies at trial that he sexually abused handcuffed man</div><div><p>A New York City officer has testified that he never abused a handcuffed suspect with a police baton.</p><p>Officer NYPD sex-abuse accuser describes subway station baton attack, says he screamed for help</div><div><p>The man who accused New York City police officers of sodomizing him with a baton in a subway station is a pot-smoking thief and a gang member who has a John Patton said former tattoo parlor employee Michael Mineo was not sodomized by a police baton...

Man in sodomy case sues NYC, police for $220 million

2010-02-27T04:31:33Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York City man who says police beat and sodomized him on a subway station platform sued the city, the police department and the accused officers for $220 million on Thursday for civil rights violations.</p><p>Three New York City police officers pleaded innocent in December to criminal ...

NYC man sues police for $220M over alleged assault

2010-02-27T04:38:43Z

<div id="subtitle">Man who says he was sodomized by NYC cops files $220 million lawsuit against city</div><div><p>A man filed a $220 million lawsuit on Thursday claiming that New York Police Department officers robbed him of his civil rights by sodomizing him with a baton in a subway station...

NYC man who claims cops sodomized him plans to sue

2010-03-01T00:58:07Z

<div id="subtitle">Man who claims he was sodomized by NYPD cops files papers for $200 million claim against city</div><div><p>A tattoo parlor employee who claims he was assaulted and sodomized by New York City police officers has filed papers to sue the city and the police department.&lt...

3 NYPD officers charged in subway sodomy case

2010-03-01T05:00:47Z

<div id="subtitle">3 NYPD officers charged with felonies in case of man who says he was sodomized in subway</div><div><p>A police officer warned a tattoo parlor worker that if he reported being sodomized with a baton during an arrest at a subway station, officers would lock him up for a felony, prosecutors said Tuesday.</p><p&a...

3 NYC police officers charged in abuse case

2010-03-01T05:09:53Z

<div><p>Three police officers were charged with felonies Tuesday for their role in an attack on a tattoo parlor worker who authorities say was sodomized with a baton in a subway station.</p><p>Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes announced an indictment charging New York police officer was charged Tuesday with using a baton to sodomize a detainee in a shocking assault at a city subway station.</p><p>The officer was arrested and charged with aggravated sexual abuse and faces up to 25 years prison if convicted, Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes said.</p><p&am...

NY cop breaks ranks in 'sodomy' allegation: reports

2010-03-02T00:35:19Z

<div><p>A New York police officer has broken ranks in a scandal over allegations that a man was sodomized with a police baton while being arrested, newspapers reported Friday.</p><p>The police department so far denies the allegation by Michael Mineo, 24, that he was held down in a subway station and assaulted.</p><p...

Grand jury weighs sodomy claim against NYPD cops

2010-03-02T13:40:52Z

<div id="subtitle">Conflicting evidence as grand jury probes whether NYPD officers sodomized body piercer</div><div><p>On the afternoon of Oct. 15, a body piercer named Michael Mineo was approached by a group of police officers who thought he was smoking marijuana. Mineo fled into a subway s...

NY police 'rape' allegation to face grand jury

2010-02-27T20:16:23Z

<div><p>Prosecutors in New York on Monday ordered a grand jury investigation into allegations that police sodomized a detainee with a walkie-talkie.</p><p>District Attorney Charles Hynes announced that "on the basis of preliminary conclusions of the early stages of my investigation ... I have ordered a special investigative grand jury t...

Sharpton calls for inquiry in alleged NYPD assault

2010-02-27T20:57:13Z

<div id="subtitle">Sharpton calls for independent inquiry in alleged NYPD assault, sodomy; cops deny allegations</div><div><p>Saying that police brutality is not an issue of color, the Rev. Al Sharpton on Saturday joined the cause of a white man who claims that a group of officers sodomized him ...