In news from New York, the Brooklyn district attorney has decided to have a special investigative grand jury examine allegations that police officers beat and sodomized a twenty-four-year-old man at a subway station last week. Michael Mineo says four police officers brutally assaulted him by throwing him to the ground. Mineo said an object, possibly the antenna of a police radio, penetrated his rectum. The police have rejected his account. Mineo was hospitalized for five days, and hospital discharge papers said his injuries are consistent with that type of assault. The alleged incident mirrors the case of Abner Louima, a Haitian immigrant who was attacked with a broomstick in a Brooklyn police station in 1997.