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Attack on Haitian just one of many minority leaders say
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — A second police officer has been charged in the brutal torture of a Haitian immigrant who said he was sodomized with a toilet plunger in the bathroom of a Brooklyn police station.
Officer Charles Schwarz, 31, turned himself in amid a sweeping Internal Affairs Bureau investigation.
Officer Justin Vope, 25, surrendered after the victim, Abner Louima, identified him through a photo.
A grand jury indicted both officers on charges of aggravated sex abuse
and first-degree assault. Each offense carries a maximum penalty of 25 years in prison.
Officials refused to detail Schwarz's alleged role. But a police source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said he was suspected of holding down Louma while Volpe sodomized him.
Louima, a 30-year-old legal immigrant who works as a security guard, also claims the officers called him a "stupid nigger" and invoked Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's name during the attack, saying that it was "Giuliani time."
Schwarz was one of a dozen officers besides Volpe pulled off active duty and stripped of their guns and badges. The precinct commander has been transferred.
A fellow officer provided information that helped the grand jury indict, Giuliani said.
A coalition of Haitian organizations said the attack fits a pattern of police brutality against minorities. Likewise, Norman Siegel, head of the New York Civil Liberties Union, argued that such an attack could happen in a dozen other neighborhoods.
The mayor and police leaders said the attack was an aberration that has outraged the 38,000-officer force.
Asked about the alleged Giuliani time remark, the mayor responded that if in fact any cop had said it, the cop didn't know what he or the police department stood for, nor did he deserve to be a member of the New York Police Department.
Gulliani, a former prosecutor running for re-election, has towed New York as the safest big city in America.
In the last four years, reports of
serious crime are down 54 percent citywide, and 51 percent in the 70th Precinct. Civilian complaints against police fell more than 20 percent in the first half of this year.
Both officers charged had previous civilian complaints filed against them. An accusation that Vope punched, kicked and cursed a man was not substantiated; Schwarz was suspended for 15 days for slapping someone in the face while on-duty.
Louma was arrested early Aug. 9 during a scuffle with officers outside a Brooklyn nightclub and was taken to the stationhouse. Internal Affairs is also investigating an hour-and-a-half delay in getting Louma to a hospital.
Louima's injuries include a torn rectum and lacerated bladder, and he now requires a catheter and colostomy bag. Additionally, some of his teeth also were knocked out.
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Man blind in one eye to become firefighter
Blanket exclusions banned in lawsuit
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A man blind in one eye will be hired as a firefighter under a settlement of the first employment discrimination lawsuit filed by the Justice Department under the Americans With Disabilities Act.
Dennis Henderson, subject of the December 1994 suit, will join the Pontiac, Mich., Fire Department and receive back pay, pension benefits and seniority, the department announced.
"Employers cannot base hiring decisions on blanket exclusions that deny qualified individuals a chance to seek employment," said Isabelle Katz Pinzler, acting assistant attorney general for civil rights.
Henderson, 38, has 18 years of firefighting experience. He applied for a full-time job in Pontiac in April 1991 and placed seventh among 107 applicants.
He was offered a job by the Pontiac department in 1992 and took a pre-employment physical, which showed he had vision in only one eye. When the city learned of the disability it withdrew the job offer, the lawsuit said.
Henderson lost his right eye in a BB gun accident when he was a teen-ager. He said it never posed a threat in his duties as a firefighter. The Justice Department said there were firefighters with one eye in other cities, including San Diego and Los Angeles.
It said the Pontiac Fire Department had modified its hiring policies to insure similar discrimination against qualified individuals with disabilities does not occur in the future.
Pontiac officials said they fought the lawsuit because National Fire Protection Association standards required vision in two eyes.
Henderson said he was eager to get to work.
"I'm just glad it's over with and I'm happy with the outcome," he said.
The Associated Press
Captured satellite data returning from space
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Space shuttle Discovery's astronauts defy snagged a satellite loaded with valuable data about Earth's ozone layer, accomplishing their final objective in orbit.
Scientists at Kennedy Space Center cheered and congratulated one another once the satellite was on board.
In another station-building test, Davis relied on remote camera views instead of a direct line of sight to lower the boxy, 7,700-
Days after releasing it to measure atmospheric gases, the astronauts closed in on the satellite using the same kind of approach that will be needed for the future space station. Then payload commander Jan Davis slowly reached out with Discovery's 50-foot robot arm and grabbed the probe as the spacecraft sped 180 miles above the Pacific Ocean just north of New Zealand.
pound satellite into the shuttle cargo bay.
During its flight, the Germanbuilt satellite collected enough data to fill more than a quarterton of computer disks, said Robert Conway, a Naval Research Laboratory scientist in charge of its ultraviolet telescope.
Virtually all the information was stored in the satellite. Only a tiny percentage was transmitted to ground controllers — just enough to show the instruments were working properly.
It will be at least a month before the satellite is unloaded and Conway and other scientists get their data.
As part of the ozone study, NASA and the German space agency launched more than 65 small rockets and weather balloons and flew a plane equipped with atmospheric monitors over Europe. The launches and flights were timed to coincide with the satellite measurements.
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