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NYPD officers accused of anti-gay attack
A New York City man charges officers assaulted him and used anti-gay epithets. According to the Daily News, police knocked on the door of Louis Falcone on 19 June. There was a complaint of noise from the Staten Island home he shares with his mother.
Staten Island is one of the five boroughs of New York City.
Falcone tells the newspaper four officers showed up at the door. He explained he and his brother had a loud argument earlier.
‘As I’m talking to them through the screen door, they’re saying to come outside,’ Falcone recalls to the Daily News. ‘I said, “For what?”‘
Falcone’s dog started to bark, and when he turned to quiet him one of the officers pulled Falcone outside.
‘They threw me against the concrete in front of my house,’ he said. ‘My first reaction was to try to get up a little bit.’
During the scrum, he charges he was called a faggot.
‘While I was on the ground, I had mud and blood in my mouth,’ he said. ‘One (of the cops) said, “Don’t let it get on you, he probably has AIDS, the faggot.”‘
A New York City Police Department spokesman tells the newspaper a different story.
‘Falcone became belligerent and uncooperative. He appeared to have been injured in the fight with his brother. As the officers attempted to subdue him, he resisted and spit blood in the face of one of them,’ the spokesman said to the newspaper.
‘The officers were able to restrain him and he was transported by EMS to a local hospital for evaluation,’ the spokesman continues.
Falcone claims he was left with a broken nose, two black eyes, and cuts to his face and body.
He faces no charges. However, Eric Subin, his lawyer, insists there are plans to sue in federal court for civil rights violations.
‘They’re criminals; they belong behind bars,’ Subin said to the Daily News.
Ralph W. Vogel, executive director of the Staten Island LGBT Community Center, is calling for an investigation.
Below is a video of the arrest. It is impossible to hear what language was used.
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James Withers
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