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FBI arrests 4 Conn. officers in town where investigation found pattern of anti-Hispanic bias
NEW HAVEN, Conn. Four police officers, including the president of the local police union, were arrested by the FBI on Tuesday on charges that they assaulted illegal immigrants and created false reports to cover up abuses in a New Haven suburb where a federal investigation found life was made miserable for Hispanics.
The East Haven officers assaulted individuals while they were handcuffed, unlawfully searched Latino businesses, and harassed and intimidated individuals, including advocates, witnesses and other officers who tried to investigate or report misconduct or abuse the officers committed, according to the federal indictment.
Federal authorities began investigating police in 2009 in East Haven, where the federal probe last month documented a pattern of abuse. Latino business owners said rough treatment by police drove many newcomers from Mexico and Ecuador to leave the city.
The arrests were welcomed by Hispanic business owners in East Haven, including Luis Rodriguez, an immigrant from Ecuador who had complained of harassment by police at his Los Amigos Grocery store.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/fbi-arrests-4-conn-officers-on-conspiracy-obstruction-charges-after-civil-rights-probe/2012/01/24/gIQAVBVKNQ_story.html
sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)to watch the new repuke mayor, who just brought the guy that seems to be "unindicted co-conspirator 1" back from forced leave to retake his job. I forsee a very short return to career for Mayor Joseph Maturo.
http://www.courant.com/community/east-haven/hc-east-haven-police-fbi-arrests-0125-20120124,0,4014487.story
This is going to be very interesting.
T S Justly
(884 posts)If we want the rot out of American law enforcement.
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)lumpy
(13,704 posts)nt
Fuzz
(8,827 posts)It's getting really bad there. Lot's of racists in that town and a few rich people with water front properties that make a lot of noise.
My fundie sister lived there for a time, on the water, and I saw this first hand.
REACTIVATED IN CT
(2,965 posts)I live one town over from "Staven".