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Greek authorities have suspended a police sergeant, accused of beating two detainees last year at a central Athens police precinct.
Video footage, posted on a Web site and broadcast on Saturday on Greek TV stations, allegedly showed the sergeant hit and kick the two men and beat them with a stick at the downtown Omonoia police precinct in June 2006.
The men, whose identities were not released, were also apparently forced to take turns slapping each other, the footage showed.
It was not immediately clear who recorded the images, but media reports speculated anot... Read more
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Worcester Telegram
03 March 2010
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WORCESTER — The city has agreed to pay a city man $47,500 to settle his federal civil rights lawsuit alleging that a Worcester police officer unjustly beat him with a baton while he was defenseless on the ground, breaking his wrist and inflicting multiple bruises.
The police brutality lawsuit, brought in U.S. District Court by Trung Huynh, sought unspecified damages for illegal arrest and excessive force stemming from an incident outside Club Red on Pleasant Street in June 2006.
Mr. Huynh alleged that after one of his friends mouthed off to officers outside the club, Officers Andrew Cravedi and William Mosley, who were working a paid detail for the bar, chased them down. Mr. Huynh alleged that one of the officers struck him repeatedly with a baton and that the beating continued even after he was on the ground with his hands behind his head.
“It was an egregious case because it involved the use of a weapon that resulted in significant injury, a broken bone,” said Mr. Huynh’s lawyer, Michael L. Tumposky of the Boston firm Hedges & Tumposky. “I think it reflected poor judgment on the part of the officers involved and poor training.”
Police Chief Gary J. Gemme and City Solicitor David M. Moore didn’t respond to requests for comment yesterday.
In previous interviews, Mr. Moore has stressed that agreeing to settle police misconduct lawsuits is not an admission of guilt or a weak case. In some cases, it is the most prudent step to protect the city from a potentially large jury award, he has said.
Last year, the city settled at least three police brutality lawsuits at a total cost of $107,750 in taxpayer money, according to city records. The city paid $320,000 in public money to settle five police brutality lawsuits in 2008.
In the case that produced the most recent settlement, Mr. Huynh alleged in court papers that he and two friends were turned away from Club Red because one of his friends was wearing a hat. The man asked the detail officers why they couldn’t be admitted to the club if he took the hat off. After being ignored by the officers, the man made a remark to one of the officers that initiated the beating, according to Mr. Huynh’s account.
Mr. Huynh was arrested and charged with assault and battery on a police officer, resisting arrest, disorderly conduct, disturbing the peace and trespassing. He was later acquitted of all the charges by a Central District Court jury, said Mr. Tumposky, who characterized the charges as an attempt by the officers to justify their use of force.
In its answer to the lawsuit, the city agreed that Mr. Huynh and his friends were turned away from the club and that one of them made a remark to the officers. The city also agreed that Mr. Huynh had to be taken to the hospital after his arrest, according to court papers.
But the city denied that the officers unjustly beat Mr. Huynh or arrested him on false pretenses. The city’s answer to the lawsuit did not offer an alternative version of what happened that night or an explanation of why the use of force was necessary.
In the years since the incident, Mr. Huynh largely has recovered from his injuries, his lawyer said.
“He is fine now. He does have some lingering pain, but for the most part he has pretty much recovered at this point,” Mr. Tumposky said.
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