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The number of Honolulu police officers punished by the department for breaking the law or department regulations last year hit the lowest total in six years. None were fired.
The number of officers disciplined in 2006 represents less than 2 percent of HPD's force of nearly 2,000 officers.
Three officers were suspended for 20 days and four for 10 days.
The statistics come from a report submitted each year to the Legislature. The reports have been mandatory since 1995 under a state law stemming from a challenge by a University of Hawai'i student journalism group ... Read more
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Wounded men dispute police acc
NEW YORK: One of two men wounded in the hail of 50 police bullets that killed their unarmed black friend following a bachelor party has for the first time publicly disputed the police version of the incident.
In an interview Tuesday at a Queens hospital, Trent Benefield was asked if it was true that a fourth companion, possibly armed, fled the scene of the Nov. 25 shooting outside a Queens strip club.
"No," he told NY1 News in a soft voice. "No fourth man."
Benefield, 23, who was shot three times in the legs, was to be released from the hospital on Tuesday and meet with the black civil rights leader Rev. Al Sharpton, according to Sharpton's office.
"My friend's dead," Benefield said in the interview. "I'm shot up. We need justice."
The shooting killed 23-year-old Sean Bell on his wedding day and wounded two of his companions, setting off a storm of outrage in New York, especially in the black community. The three victims are black, and the police officers included two blacks, two whites and one Hispanic.
Lawyers for Benefield and the still-hospitalized Joseph Guzman, 31, say both men also have claimed that none of the five undercover and plainclothes officers identified themselves as police before opening fire. The barrage of bullets killed Bell on the morning of his wedding.
The officers "never" identified themselves, Guzman said, speaking from his bed at Mary Immaculate Hospital in a separate interview published Tuesday by the New York Daily News.
About Bell, Guzman said, "I took 16 shots, but a superstar died that night. I loved him."
Guzman also called on New Yorkers outraged by the shooting to exercise restraint.
"No violence, man," he said. "No violence. Not in my name."
Police have said an undercover officer — part of a team investigating the club for prostitution and drugs — began following Bell and his friends to their car after overhearing Guzman threaten to retrieve a gun in a dispute with another man. As the car started to pull away, it bumped the officer and then smashed into an unmarked police van, police said.
Through his lawyer, the undercover officer has insisted he believed Guzman was pulling a gun when he opened fire on the car; no gun was found. He and other witnesses also have said there was a fourth man in or near the car who escaped on foot.
The five officers have been put on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of a grand jury investigation by the Queens district attorney's office.
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