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Transit Cop Testifies That He Witnessed NYPD Subway Sodomy
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John Del Signore
Published Feb 1, 2010
Modified Feb 1, 2010
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During testimony today, a transit cop broke ranks and testified that he witnessed an NYPD officer sodomize a man during an arrest in the Prospect Park subway station in October 2008. Officer Kevin Maloney, 27, told jurors he saw Officer Richard Kern use his retractable baton to sexually assault suspect Michael Mineo, who had tried to run away from cops who caught him smoking a joint outside the station. "It was pressed on Michael Mineo's left buttock... I saw [the baton] move from left to right," Maloney said. "I saw it move from left to right into Michael Mineo's butt crack... Yes, there was pressure being applied."
Maloney demonstrated for jurors how Kern moved his hand with the baton, and told them, "I would say a half inch to an inch was out of sight." But according to the Daily News, Maloney's testimony "didn't mesh perfectly with the story told by Mineo—and he was expected to face a bruising cross examination." It's unclear how Maloney's account differs, but what's certain is that we'll continue to hear more than we ever wanted about Mineo's butt crack for some time to come.
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John Del Signore
Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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