police brutality

Here is a picture of Haitian police chief Mario Andresol as new allegation of police brutality just surface on a video.

The Haitian civilian police force was created in 1994 by former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide when he returned to power, in order to end brutality by the military.

This new video showing the current Haitian Police force involved in police Brutality does not help.

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Here is the new Police force in Haiti building a reputation for violence and repression with new Brigade BOID.

BOID Part of Police Repression against Party Members. The National Police of Haiti has formed a new specialized unit, the Brigade of Operation and Departmental Intervention (BOID). Its first promotion graduated 254 policemen and -women. One of its mandates is to back up departmental units of the Haitian police.

BOID has been deployed in not always ethical ways. At a political rally it was suspected BOID carried out the shooting of a senior official of Pitit Dessalines in a drive-by.

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Here are two pictures of Student Chedler Guilloux. On the left shows the abuses he received while in jail. The second picture was taken after his release

On February 26 and March 3, 2015, on the streets of the capital city, many students from the Universities in Haiti demonstrated protest against the arrest of their comrade Chedler Guilloux, a student from the School of Philosophy Normale Superieure (ENS). Guilloux was arrested on February 23 by the agents of the National Police of Haiti (PNH) and was severely beaten by the security officers CSCCA and those of the PNH. The students demanded immediate release, necessary health care and a fair compensation for his physical and mental damages during the custody. Guilloux is a graduate in philosophy from the Ecole Normale Superieure (Set), student of master's degree in Human Science and a critic of contemporary culture. He was arrested in connection with the burning of a government bus belonging to the Superior Court of Auditors and Administrative Disputes (CSC / CA) during a street protest.
After several days of protests and legal proceedings, the master's student of Philosophy at the Normal School was released by the judge Ramoncite on March 5 on a provisional basis. However, he will remain at the disposal of justice, until of the Closing Order, the investigation being still ongoing.

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Abner Louima is a Haitian who was born in Thomassin, Haiti, in 1966. He was trained as an Electrical Engineer, but in 1997, he used to work as a security guard in a water and sewage plant in Flatlands of Brooklyn. He was married, had one child and was living in the Brooklyn area for past six years. On August 9, 1997, Louima visited a popular nightclub "Club Rendez-Vous" in East Flatbush. Unfortunately, late in the night after visiting the club, he and some other fellow party-goers got in the middle of a brawl between two women. The police was called and several officers from the 70th Precinct were dispatched to the scene. The way police responded to the incident, instigated a large scuffle between the civilians and the officers. Officer Justin Volpe, the leader of the police incorrectly assumed Louima had struck him with a sucker-punch. Officer Volpe, along with his other officers named Charles Schwarz, Thomas Wiese and Thomas Bruder, brutally attacked and beat Louima with their fists, nightsticks and two-way radios while taking him to the police station on a number of charges, like, disorderly conduct, obstructing government administration, and resisting arrest. In the police station at 70th Precinct, when Louima was handcuffed with hands behind his back, he was sexually assaulted in a bathroom. Volpe squeezed and kicked his testicles and shoved a wooden broom handle into his rectum. After the incident, Louima was taken to the emergency room of Coney Island Hospital where his escorting officers reported his injury as "a result of homosexual activity".

On March 29, 1999, jury selection began in the federal trial against the five cops indicted in the Abner Louima torture case. Officers Justin Volpe, Thomas Bruder, Charles Schwarz, and Thomas Wiese were charged with several counts of violating Louima's civil rights. A fifth cop, Michael Bellomo, had been charged with lying to cover up the incident.

Although, a decade and a half has passed since the brutal beating and savage sexual assault of NYPD', the incident is still remembered as a case that scarred both the city's race relations and its police force for years.

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