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KATC - Lafayette,LA,USA
09 January 2007
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2 officers reassigned after Fr
NEW ORLEANS -- Two police officers were reassigned to desk duty after a complaint that they beat a man walking in the French Quarter.
Ronald Coleman, 25, of New Orleans, said he was beaten and handcuffed by a group of seven plainclothes officers who mistook him for a pickpocket, punched him, wrestled him to the ground, and kept punching him even after he had been handcuffed.
"I said to them, 'What is this? I didn't do anything, I didn't do anything!'" said Coleman, a national legislative campaign coordinator for the grass-roots activist group ACORN. "They were yelling, 'Stop resisting.'"
He did find an effective deterrent: "I started yelling out that I'm a lawyer. Then the punches stopped."
Coleman said the alleged attack occurred late Dec. 30, as he was returning to his car. He said he heard "New Orleans police!" and turned around, putting his hands up.
"They came toward me and immediately started punching me and took me to the ground," he said.
Coleman said he suffered a mild concussion, facial cuts, bumps on his head and bruised ribs.
Officers told Coleman they were looking for a pickpocket in the area _ a "black man wearing black," he said. Coleman, who is black, said he was dressed in navy blue.
The officers were patrolling the French Quarter, part of increased policing efforts during New Year's Eve and Sugar Bowl events. Coleman said they realized their mistake when they ran his identification through records.
Marlon Defillo, deputy chief of the police department's Public Integrity Bureau, said his office is investigating and has reassigned Officer Reynolds Rigney Jr. to technical support and Sgt. Jake Schnapp Jr. to desk duty and camera surveillance. He did not release the other five officers' names, and said they have not been reassigned.
Neither could be reached for comment.
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