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03 December 2007
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NYC Bouncer Blames Police for
A bouncer accused of killing three men took the witness stand at his murder trial on Monday and offered a surprise defense: The police did it.
Stephen Sakai told jurors in state Supreme Court in Brooklyn that at the time of the killings, he had been collecting evidence against a corrupt detective and other "dirty cops" with the help of his "friends" — the three victims.
"These people died because they supported me," said Sakai, who was arrested last year on charges that he gunned down a fourth man outside a trendy Manhattan nightspot.
Asked on cross-examination whether he expected the jury to believe that a detective would orchestrate a retaliatory killing spree, Sakai responded: "He ordered it. Other police officers carried it out."
Authorities say Sakai made incriminating statements about the three 2005 killings in Brooklyn after he was arrested in a fatal shooting outside the Opus 22 lounge in Manhattan in May 2006. The Opus 22 victim was a patron who reportedly argued with Sakai while waiting for his girlfriend to return from the club's bathroom.
In the Brooklyn cases, Sakai was charged with fatally shooting a fellow bouncer in what he described as a clash over money, prosecutors said. Prosecutors allege he also implicated himself in the stabbing of another man and in the slaying of a second bouncer in separate disputes.
"I bet you think I killed (the second bouncer)," Sakai told investigators, according to court papers. "Well, I did. Just write the statement, and I'll sign it."
On Monday, Sakai claimed police had coerced the confessions by making threats against his mother and sister. Under the circumstances, he decided to "give them what they wanted," he said.
Sakai, 32, faces up to life in prison if convicted in the Brooklyn cases. He has been charged with murder in the Manhattan case, and his trial is pending.
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