Talk:Abner Louima

message: Broomstick? Wasn't it a plunger? --Feitclub 02:38, Nov 18, 2004 (UTC)
:Yes, it was a plunger - I remember that from reading about the case previously, and checking various sources confirms that it was a plunger.  The page now reflects that.
:: The article currently (2016) states "broom handle". Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 07:39, 14 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Broomstick or plunger? 

message: According to the Staten Island Advance of December 5, 2019, page A9, Schwarz never left NYC, but when released from prison worked very briefly for Con Edison, which fired him.  He then went to work for the NYC Housing Authority as a maintenance worker, with a 2018 income of $114,000.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2604:2000:1600:4F49:BD40:7EAC:14AC:1995 (talk) 21:13, 5 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Schwarz update

message: The article has "Given the size of the precinct in question, it would be unlikely for the officers on duty not to have heard the assault or witnessed Volpe's pride in his actions". This seems to indicate that they later said they heard nothing, so that someone must be lying,  Louima or the other officers. But the article does not mention their statement. This must be resolved, either by mentioning their statement, or by removing the sentence about the size of the precinct. PhS 13:29, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Resolve this

message: The wording of this article as of 9 September 2006 reads as biased. All actions taken by Volpe and the other accused officers are referred to as "alleged," which is properly appropriate to cases where charges have been filed but no ruling has been handed down; in this instance the accused officers were either found guilty in trial or pleaded guilty and allocuted the details of their crimes. Neither Volpe nor his co-defendants chose to plead under the Alford doctrine, which further diminishes the likelihood of the legal finding of guilt not reflecting true culpability. Moreover, the reference to Sean Hannity's statements and actions is not rebutted in the article with consideration of whether injuries of the severity Louima was treated for could have been caused by consensual sexual activity, "rough" or otherwise (though a reasonable person, per the legal standard, might infer that multiple surgeries would be unlikely to be needed following consensual sex). Finally, the omission, from an article whose subject is Abner Louima and which focusses on his police-brutality complaints against Volpe and the NYPD, of the circumstances of Louima's arrest -- that a police officer had been assaulted, that other NYPD officers were angry about that assault, that Louima was mistaken for a suspect in that assault, and that he was later found to have had nothing to do with said assault -- is simply not appropriate.
(I wish I had time to run down sources and fact-check my details -- all of this is from memory of following the cases at the time -- but I don't even have time to look up the password or even which email address is associated with my login [theJack]. I haven't had time for real editing in too long. Like graffitied articles, however, this is something I just can't let stand. Thanks in advance to anyone who follows up the POV-tagging.) —The Jack [not logged in] 69.183.245.211 23:44, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I removed the improper "alleged" qualifiers from the article; they were all added by a single unexplained edit that also changed one instance of "Louima" to "the perp."  Postdlf 23:56, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: NPOV

message: "Public condemnation of the attack was not universal. Fox News pundit Sean Hannity was one of Louima's biggest critics during the trial, charging that he had fabricated the rape — calling him "lying Louima" — and using interviews with people alleging Louima had past sexual relationships with men to bolster the claim that he had sustained his injuries during a "gay sex act." Hannity stopped using the "lying Louima" epithet after Volpe confessed to sodomizing Louima with the help of another officer."
:Can someone find more examples of critics? --68.161.185.91 (talk) 04:16, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  A better example? 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Sentence in Aftermath:
"Louima has since participated in anti-police brutality protests with Al Sharpton, notably over the shooting of Sean Bell in November 2006, and on August 9, 2007, exactly 10 years after his attack."
Sentence reads that Aug. 9, 2007 is 10 years after Bell Shooting (Nov. 25, 2006) which is incorrect or that Louima participated in three protests?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.9.40.166 (talk) 01:12, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible error/clarification 

message: They gonna take it out his commissary or what? PrimeGoat (talk) 02:00, 29 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  How will Volpe pay his fine?