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Police 'attack' Mugabe opponen
Police and militants loyal to president Robert Mugabe cracked down on opponents, with police arresting 36 people and doctors reporting scores of cases of presumed assault and torture.
Police accused those arrested of trying to violently enforce a nationwide strike called by Zimbabwe's opposition to demand the results of presidential elections that Mr Mugabe is widely believed to have lost.
Zimbabwe Doctors for Human Rights said it has treated 174 cases of injuries consistent with assault and torture since the vote.
The opposition, human rights groups and diplomats ch... Read more
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White Plains Journal News - Wh
17 December 2007
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FBI probing Sleepy Hollow poli
SLEEPY HOLLOW - The FBI has launched an investigation into alleged brutality and misconduct by the Sleepy Hollow Police Department, prompted by cases in which officers tasered a 16-year-old boy and allegedly beat up and tasered another person who accused a detective of romancing his young daughter, The Journal News has learned.
Federal agents are questioning all officers involved in those cases and others as part of an ongoing probe that began a month ago.
"They're investigating allegations of police brutality and misconduct," Police Chief Jimmy Warren confirmed today. "They've asked for records and they've asked to speak to the officers individually. That will be coming up in January."
The chief said the probe has an unlimited scope, but agents so far have focused on the two recent cases.
The first occurred outside the police station Oct. 17, 2006. Resident Mario Gomez said he was punched, kicked and shocked with a stun gun when he confronted Sleepy Hollow Detective Jose Quinoy. The fracas stemmed from Gomez' belief that Quinoy, 35, was romantically involved with his 22-year-old daughter.
Gomez and his now-estranged wife, Awilda, who said Quinoy threw her to the ground, were both arrested in that incident. They have filed a federal lawsuit against Quinoy, the village and police officials, claiming their civil rights were violated.
The wife's lawyer, Frances Marinelli, welcomed the FBI probe.
"It's a positive step and it certainly confirms our allegations and our complaint," she said.
The other incident stems from August of this year, when village police zapped Duanny Lara Mota with a stun gun. The 16-year-old was apparently riding his bike erratically with a friend on the sidewalk at Teresa Street and Beekman Avenue, when Quinoy and Officer Paul Nelson saw the teen riding in violation of village law.
Police suspected the bikes were stolen and told the boys the bikes would have to be taken to headquarters. Mota refused to cooperate with police, cursing at them, disobeying orders and then running away, police said.
After he was zapped, Mota was taken by ambulance to Police Headquarters, not a hospital, where police removed the stun-gun barbs. Police maintain that Mota was not injured and did not need medical treatment. His mother later took him to Phelps Memorial Hospital Center in the village where he was treated and released.
Mota was charged with disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and obstructing governmental administration. He was also ticketed for riding his bike on the sidewalk.
Warren said police conducted an internal investigation of both the Mota and Gomez cases and that it "revealed no misconduct."
However, he said the department was cooperating with the FBI's requests.
"They've asked to speak to the officers involved (in both cases)," the chief said, "and any officers that might have information."
Mayor Philip Zegarelli was aware of the probe, although he has not been contacted by federal investigators. The mayor said it may "help clear the air, one way or the other" and that the FBI was doing its job.
"It is what it is," Zegarelli said this afternoon. "I find nothing wrong or out of the ordinary that they are doing this... This is their role and they are doing it. I'm quite at ease in them doing this."
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