Off-Duty Officers Sued in Club Incident

[Judi Lynn]

Off-Duty Officers Sued in Club Incident

By Henri E. Cauvin
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, January 5, 2006; Page B04

A Lebanese man who said two off-duty D.C. police officers beat him and called him an "al Qaeda" during a confrontation at a Northeast Washington nightclub filed a lawsuit yesterday claiming he was the victim of police brutality and racial discrimination.

Emile Mazloum had gone to the Fur Nightclub on March 11 with a couple of friends who were working for a party promoter, all of them hoping for a fun Friday night at the club on Patterson Street NE, just off North Capitol. But the night ended with Mazloum bloodied and battered at an Alexandria hospital, and the attack covered up by the police and the club, Mazloum, claims in the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court.

The FBI, U.S. attorney's office and the Justice Department's civil rights division have been investigating the incident, but no charges have been filed and the case remains open.

At a news conference yesterday at the offices of the Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs, Mazloum, 34, was flanked by his lawyers, an imam, a priest and a rabbi -- and by photographs taken the day after the incident at the club.
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[Conservativesux]

1. When are we going to crack down on this behavior? A badge and gun dont

make these criminals any better then the people they belittle, knowing the union will back them up .