And here in New York, three police officers have been charged for the alleged assault and sodomizing of a twenty-four-year-old man at a Brooklyn subway station in October. The alleged victim, Michael Mineo, says the officers brutally assaulted him by throwing him to the ground. Mineo said an object, possibly the antenna of a police radio, penetrated his rectum. He was hospitalized for five days. The alleged incident mirrors the case of Abner Louima, a Haitian immigrant attacked with a broomstick in a Brooklyn police station in 1997. One officer has been charged with aggravated sexual abuse, while the other two have been charged with hindering prosecution and official misconduct.