Woman in Rape Case Says Verdict Left Her ‘Devastated’

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/31/woman-in-rape-case-disappointed-in-verdict/?ref=nyregion

By THE NEW YORK TIMES 

The woman who accused two New York City police officers of rape released a statement on Tuesday expressing her disappointment in the jury’s verdict. The officers were acquitted of rape, but were convicted of three counts of official misconduct for entering her apartment. What follows is the statement from the woman, who requested that her name not be used:

In shift from Bush, Obama's DOJ is aggressively investigating police departments accused of civil rights violations

http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/05/30/justice_department_civil_rights_police/index.html

By Justin Elliott

PJ Solidarity Statement for CAAAV and Chinatown

May 16, 2011

The following is Peoples’ Justice member org, CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities’, descriptionan NYPD of beating and arrest of a man in Chinatown:

On Mother’s Day last Sunday, Yi Zhuo Wu, a Chinese immigrant, was pinned down by four NYPD police officers who beat him bloody and then handcuffed him in Chinatown’s Columbus Park. Wu, a musician, is a member of the Street Musical Club, a group that has played music regularly in Columbus Park for more thanfour years. Aggravating the situation even further, as the community was watching Mr. Wu being arrested and calling for him to be released, a police officer threatened to mace people who did not move back.

According to the police, the Street Musical Club did not have a sound permit. In a statement to reporters, the NYPD has characterized this as a misunderstanding, that this would not have happened if people in the community knew that they needed a sound permit to play instruments in the park. Their solution is to hold a community information session to let people know what procedures they should follow.