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Mexico's Supreme Court says that police committed serious abuses when trying to retake control of rebellious town outside the capital three years ago.
The Supreme Court has ruled that police should be investigated for their conduct in San Salvador Atenco, though it absolves the state governor and federal officials who ordered the raid of the abuses.
The non-binding decision came Thursday.
Police intervened in San Salvador Atenco in May 2006 to end protests that erupted after authorities tried to prevent street vendors from setting up stands in a nearby city. Some of ... Read more
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One New Orleans police officer was fired on Monday, and one will be disciplined when he returns to town, police superintendent Warren Riley said.
The two were among a group of seven plainclothes officers working in the French Quarter last December who were charged with handcuffing and beating a lobbyist for the community group ACORN.
"There was a hearing Friday, one received a five-day suspension, the other a 20-day suspension," Riley said. "I overturned those."
Officer Reynolds Rigney Jr., who joined the police force in 2004, was terminated, Riley said.
Sgt. Jake Schnapp Jr., was out of town and no action would be taken until he returned, Riley said. Riley refused to say what penalty Schnapp faces.
In the Dec. 30 incident, Ronald Coleman, 25, said he was beaten and handcuffed by plainclothes officers while walking near Bourbon Street in the French Quarter.
"I didn't know what was going on, they just came up and started hitting me," Coleman said on Monday. "They were yelling to stop resisting, but I wasn't doing anything except trying to find out why they were beating me up."
Coleman said the officers told him they were looking for a man suspected of being a pickpocket. When they checked his identification, Coleman said they released him. By that time, however, he had a concussion, facial cuts, bumps on his head and bruised ribs.
"Reynolds Rigney was the one that beat me while I was on the ground," Coleman said.
Both Schnapp and Rigney were reassigned to desk duty after the incident, said deputy chief Marlon Defillo, who heads the department's Public Integrity Bureau. The other officers were cleared. Evidence did not show they used inappropriate force, Defillo said.
Civil service records show Schnapp, a decorated, 17-year veteran of the force, had been investigated a number of times, including the alleged 1991 beating of a 20-year-old man, and for keeping a collection of gruesome crime-scene photographs. In 1999, Schnapp was suspended for 10 days for driving his police cruiser the wrong way up a one-way street, and in 2003 he was suspended for five days for causing a traffic accident with his police cruiser.
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