Memorandum and ORDER
RAGGI, Circuit J
On August 9, 1997, Abner Louima, a prisoner in police custody, was taken in handcuffs to the bathroom of the 70th precinct in Brooklyn and brutally sodomized with a broken broomstick by officers of the New York City Police Department. Law enforcement efforts to investigate this crime and to bring those responsible to justice were seriously hampered by the fact that a number of police...
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