The Sloth
25th February 2005, 02:56
Interesting to note, I've frequented this particular area of Brooklyn -- Sunset Park -- on many occassions, and, looking around, I've asked myself the question: "Why is it that cops always seem to target individuals here?"
The detention center I will speak of is in the middle this hispanic working-class neighborhood, where, just months ago, a large number of protestors were beaten. That was a "major" incident. The "little-known" incidents are almost never reported although they happen daily.
Jails in the poorer (read -- non-white) neighborhoods are often the worst of the worst, it seems. Shit seems to go down here, specifically, as well; the recent medical scandal regarding using black children as unwitting experimental objects occurred in Harlem, where 99% of the population is non-white. A recent raid on a hip-hop party -- which was, of course, radical-left in nature -- occurred in a similar neighborhood. Children get shot...where? Robberies occur...where?
Now, this. Prisoners get tortured...where?
Defense attorneys call it Brooklyn's Abu Ghraib. On the ninth floor of the federal Metropolitan Detention Center in Sunset Park, terrorism suspects swept off the streets after the Sept. 11 attacks were repeatedly stripped naked and frequently were physically abused, the Justice Department's inspector general has found.
The detainees - none of whom were ultimately charged with anything related to terrorism - alleged in sworn affidavits and in interviews with Justice Department officials that correction officers:
Humiliated them by making fun of - and sometimes painfully squeezing - their genitals.
Deprived them of regular sleep for weeks or months.
Shackled their hands and feet before smashing them repeatedly face-first into concrete walls - within sight of the Statue of Liberty.
Forced them in winter to stand outdoors at dawn while dressed in light cotton prison garb and no shoes, sometimes for hours.
"In December, they left me outside for more than four hours [wearing] only a jumpsuit and a light prison coat," Ahmed Khalifa, an Egyptian, told the Daily News. "I asked them to let me inside. They were laughing and pointing to me. When I finally got back inside, I felt like I had frostbite."
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime_file...9p-242172c.html (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime_file/story/282569p-242172c.html)
The detention center I will speak of is in the middle this hispanic working-class neighborhood, where, just months ago, a large number of protestors were beaten. That was a "major" incident. The "little-known" incidents are almost never reported although they happen daily.
Jails in the poorer (read -- non-white) neighborhoods are often the worst of the worst, it seems. Shit seems to go down here, specifically, as well; the recent medical scandal regarding using black children as unwitting experimental objects occurred in Harlem, where 99% of the population is non-white. A recent raid on a hip-hop party -- which was, of course, radical-left in nature -- occurred in a similar neighborhood. Children get shot...where? Robberies occur...where?
Now, this. Prisoners get tortured...where?
Defense attorneys call it Brooklyn's Abu Ghraib. On the ninth floor of the federal Metropolitan Detention Center in Sunset Park, terrorism suspects swept off the streets after the Sept. 11 attacks were repeatedly stripped naked and frequently were physically abused, the Justice Department's inspector general has found.
The detainees - none of whom were ultimately charged with anything related to terrorism - alleged in sworn affidavits and in interviews with Justice Department officials that correction officers:
Humiliated them by making fun of - and sometimes painfully squeezing - their genitals.
Deprived them of regular sleep for weeks or months.
Shackled their hands and feet before smashing them repeatedly face-first into concrete walls - within sight of the Statue of Liberty.
Forced them in winter to stand outdoors at dawn while dressed in light cotton prison garb and no shoes, sometimes for hours.
"In December, they left me outside for more than four hours [wearing] only a jumpsuit and a light prison coat," Ahmed Khalifa, an Egyptian, told the Daily News. "I asked them to let me inside. They were laughing and pointing to me. When I finally got back inside, I felt like I had frostbite."
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime_file...9p-242172c.html (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime_file/story/282569p-242172c.html)