Gay Man Pulled From Home, Beaten By NYPD Officers Yelling “Faggot” In Horrifying Video
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gay Staten Island man is suing the NYPD after four officers dragged him
from his home last month before violently beating him in the front yard
while repeatedly yelling homophobic slurs.
Louis Falcone, 31, told the New York Daily News that officers arrived at the home he shares with his 66-year-old mother on June 19
to investigate a noise complaint. He had been arguing loudly with his
brother an hour earlier, who had come home in an “obnoxiously drunk”
stupor and left before police arrived to investigate the noise.
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“As I’m talking to them through the screen door, they’re saying to come outside,” said Falcone. “I said, ‘For what?'”
Falcone
added that his dog began barking from inside the house, to which an
officer said, “Get your dog out of here or I”ll fucking kill it!”
Falcone
also had surgery on his foot recently and was wearing a boot, but that
didn’t stop the four aggressive officers from purposefully stepping on
it after pulling him from his home illegally for a violent, unprovoked
beating on the front lawn.
Falcone’s version of events was confirmed by a video obtained by the Daily News,
which was shot from a neighbor’s window across the street. In it,
Falcone is heard screaming for mercy while the officers mercilessly pile
on top of him.
“They
threw me against the concrete in front of my house. My first reaction
was to try to get up a little bit,” Falcone explained. “While I was on
the ground, I had mud and blood in my mouth. One [of the cops] said,
‘Don’t let it get on you, he probably has AIDS, the faggot.’”
Falcone
begged the officers to be careful with his foot during the beating, a
request they took as an invitation. “They’re hitting me for no reason.
One puts his knee on my neck. They were all piling on top of me,” he
recalled. “I said, ‘Please, I just had surgery on my foot. One of the
cops stepped on my foot. Another cop comes and steps on my head.”
Falcone is suing the NYPD for violating his civil rights, not to mention the injuries he suffered.
According
to Falcone, the attack left him with “a broken nose, two black eyes,
cuts to his face and body, and…more foot surgery.”
“How
can you do that – four people on one skinny, scrawny little guy?”
Falcone’s attorney, Eric Subin asked. “They’re criminals; they belong
behind bars.”
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