University Daily Kansan, April 26, 1985
Page 11
NATION AND WORLD
Two more N.Y. officers charged with brutality
By United Press International
NEW YORK — Two more police officers were arraigned yesterday on charges of torturing drug suspects with a stun gun, and the entire top command of a city precinct was arrested in a growing brutality scandal.
Four officers have been charged with brutality in the Queens precinct
Gov. Mario Cuomo ordered a state investigation of the incidents, saying something was "terribly wrong" in the precinct.
— dubbed the "Torture Precinct" by the press — and have been suspended without pay. The precinct "integrity officer" in charge of monitoring prisoner treatment also was suspended but was not charged.
THE SCANDAL GREW from allegations by three drug suspects that police officers in the 106th Precinct's Street Narcotics Apprehension Unit tortured them with an electronic stun gun to force them to confess.
Police Commissioner Benjamin Ward yesterday transferred 18 top-ranking officers; the precinct's officer, three lieutenants and 14 sergeants.
All three showed burn marks on their bodies and said officers other than interrogating officers heard their screams for help but did not respond. All three men, who were black or Hispanic, said white officers used racial slurs while interrogating them.
The FBI's New York division, the U.S. Justice Department and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York yesterday began sequestration into the department for possible violations of federal civil rights laws.
Cuomo told top state law enforcement heads to investigate the stun gun incidents.
"It's like fried flesh." Santucci said.
QUEENS DISTRICT Attorney John Santucci said the effects of a stun gun are worse than a beating.
The two officers arraigned yesterday, Loren MacCary, 34, an officer since 1982, and 16-year police veteran Michael Aranda, 36, pleaded innocent and were released on their behalf in accordance to await grand jury action.
They were charged with felony assault in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree a stun gun.
Santucci said his office was looking for "people who know about this kind of conduct, people who may have heard screams. We want to find out if this is an isolated thing or whether it is widespread in the department."
Santucci said some officers in the precinct put up a "blue wall of silence" against cooperating with his investigation.
Suntucii said McCary and Aranda were present on April 4 when the Queen Rentas was allegedly tortured at the Queens stationhouse.
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