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Grand Jury Testimony in Subway Sodomy Case Begins
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Jen Chung
Published Nov 6, 2008
Modified Nov 6, 2008
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A special investigative grand jury listened to testimony from a man who accuses four police officers of assaulting him at a Brooklyn subway station. Michael Mineo claims that the officers, who were trying to bust him for smoking pot, pulled down his pants and sodomized him with a radio antennae on October 15. Though the NYPD initially denied the charges, the Brooklyn DA's office convened the grand jury, a transit cop came forward to support Mineo's claim, and the police suspended the accused cops. And today the Daily News reveals that the NYPD has had to shell out $50,000 to settle excessive force charges against one of the accused cops. The NYPD's comment: "The settlements were in the best interest of all parties."
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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