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March 12, 2013
Duke Dumont feat. A*M*E - Need U (100%)
March 12, 2013
Rhye - Open
March 12, 2013
Disclosure - White Noise ft. AlunaGeorge
March 11, 2013
Landlord says she was shackled to hospital bed for 17 days after cops broke her leg
A Brooklyn landlord says she was shackled to a hospital bed for 17 days after cops broke her leg during a wrongful arrest in the hallway of her Flatbush building.
Karen Brim, 42, claims an NYPD officer threw her to the ground, severely fracturing her left leg, after she identified herself as the owner of the Utica Avenue building and asked why the cops were there, according to a new lawsuit.
The single mother was arrested and brought to Kings County Hospital, where she needed multiple surgeries, plates and screws to fix the bones broken in a tussle with Officer Timothy Reilly.
Adding insult to injury, court papers say, was the way police restrained her for more than two weeks during her hospital stay, with one officer posted outside her room.
She was hand- and ankle-cuffed to her hospital bed, lawyer Marshall Bluth told The Post. They would not allow family or friends to enter. She wasnt presented before a judicial hearing officer for 17 days. It was pretty egregious.
A state court spokesman said the 24-hour standard for arraignment in criminal cases doesnt apply when defendants are hospitalized.
But Brim was conscious and incapable of fleeing because of her injuries and could have been arraigned at any point, Bluth said.
Shes not a flight risk. She cannot run out of the hospital. Theres no need to handcuff and ankle-cuff her. Being handcuffed to a bed its like being a caged animal. Its outrageous, he said. Its beyond belief. Not for one day, not for one week, but for 17 days?
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/cuffed_for_days_6hOZ9GXnqf4Q2QWiWpDJzN
Karen Brim, 42, claims an NYPD officer threw her to the ground, severely fracturing her left leg, after she identified herself as the owner of the Utica Avenue building and asked why the cops were there, according to a new lawsuit.
The single mother was arrested and brought to Kings County Hospital, where she needed multiple surgeries, plates and screws to fix the bones broken in a tussle with Officer Timothy Reilly.
Adding insult to injury, court papers say, was the way police restrained her for more than two weeks during her hospital stay, with one officer posted outside her room.
She was hand- and ankle-cuffed to her hospital bed, lawyer Marshall Bluth told The Post. They would not allow family or friends to enter. She wasnt presented before a judicial hearing officer for 17 days. It was pretty egregious.
A state court spokesman said the 24-hour standard for arraignment in criminal cases doesnt apply when defendants are hospitalized.
But Brim was conscious and incapable of fleeing because of her injuries and could have been arraigned at any point, Bluth said.
Shes not a flight risk. She cannot run out of the hospital. Theres no need to handcuff and ankle-cuff her. Being handcuffed to a bed its like being a caged animal. Its outrageous, he said. Its beyond belief. Not for one day, not for one week, but for 17 days?
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/cuffed_for_days_6hOZ9GXnqf4Q2QWiWpDJzN
March 11, 2013
Why shouldn't a sexually active chicken wear a condom?
Because his pecker is on his head.
March 10, 2013
Spin, damn you!
March 10, 2013
Star Trek Into Darkness - NEW (Teaser) Trailer #2
March 10, 2013
Conservative "Logic"
March 10, 2013
But it's the truth…
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