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Officers Found Guilty of Trying to Cover up Sodomy Torture of Haitian Immigrant

HeadlineMar 07, 2000

Three white officers wept and cursed after a racially mixed jury found them guilty of trying to cover up the sodomy torture of a Haitian immigrant in a police precinct bathroom in Brooklyn, New York. Ex-Patrolman Charles Schwarz and Officers Thomas Weise and Thomas Bruder were convicted yesterday of trying to conceal Schwarz’s role in the 1997 attack on Abner Louima. A jury had found Schwarz guilty last year of holding down the handcuffed Louima while another officer, Justin Volpe, sodomized him with a broken broomstick. Meanwhile, federal prosecutors will put two more New York police officers on trial for allegedly lying about the torture of Louima.

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