by Revolutionary Worker

About the author: Revolutionary Worker is a newspaper published by the Revolutionary Communist Party.

On the morning of August 9, 1997, Abner Louima was beaten and raped with the handle of a toilet plunger in a New York police station. At least four cops beat him. The main cop who raped Abner Louima paraded around the station- house like a maniac, waving the plunger he was going to use. He shouted, “This is Giuliani time,” as he carried out his sick and brutal deeds. [Rudolph Giuliani is the mayor of New York City.]

Looking the Other Way

Not a single cop in the stationhouse responded to Abner Louima’s screams. Not a single cop lifted a finger to accompany Abner Louima to the emergency room, even though they knew that he was suffering severely...