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Abner Louima (born November 24, 1966 in Thomassin, Haiti) is a Haitian American man who, in 1997, was physically attacked, brutalized, and raped by officers of the New York City Police Department (NYPD) after he was arrested outside a Brooklyn nightclub. His injuries were so severe that he required three major surgeries.
The horrific attack in the bathroom of an NYPD precinct house in Brooklyn changed New York, but maybe not enough.
Abner Louima, a 31-year-old, who was born in Haiti, is the son of a tailor and a homemaker. He worked as a security guard. On the night of August 9, 1997, following an altercation in a Haitian nightclub in Brooklyn, where he was out with friends, he was arrested, then brutally beaten and raped with a broken broomstick by New York police.
Aug 9, 2007 · Ten years ago today, a 30-year-old Haitian immigrant named Abner Louima was arrested and sodomized with a broomstick inside a restroom in the 70th Precinct station house in Brooklyn. The case...
Jun 17, 2021 · Abner Louima continues to fight for racial justice, 24 years after brutal attack. Photo by Steven Hirsh/New York Post. “I’m very fortunate and blessed to be alive today,” said Abner Louima, 54. “I embrace every second, especially with my family.”
Aug 9, 2021 · UPDATED: 11:30 a.m. ET, Aug. 9, 2021. Although nearly a quarter of a century has passed since the NYPD’s brutal beating and savage sexual assault of Black Haitian immigrant Abner Louima on Aug...
Aug 17, 2017 · Abner Louima, an activist against police brutality, is unfortunately best known for being brutalized, sexually assaulted, and savagely beaten by New York Police Department officers in 1997. Louima was born in 1966 in Thomassin, Haiti, the oldest of his parents’ four children. His father worked as a tailor and his mother was a homemaker.
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