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Feds Probe "Alleged" Yonkers Police Brutality

11:52 H | Topics: Crime - Justice - New York - Women

I love when a woman can show up looking as she does in the picture and people can still say that something "allegedly" went down. Pictured is Irma Marquez, who was shown on a surveillance videotape, being bodyslammed, facedown, by Yonkers, NY police officer Wayne Simoes.

"Several officers stated that, based on their training and experience, Simoes' use of force against Marquez was unreasonable and excessive," FBI Agent Kristina Norris wrote in a criminal complaint against Simoes filed in U.S. District Court in White Plains.
Federal prosecutors yesterday charged Simoes, 38, of Yonkers, with criminally violating the civil rights of Marquez in the March 3, 2007, arrest at La Fonda Restaurant. Simoes, an eight-year veteran of the Police Department who was paid $126,604 last year, faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted.

There is still this notion that police brutality only directly impacts men of color. It doesn't get more direct than what happened to Irma Marquez.

Marquez, 44, suffered a broken jaw and other facial injuries. She was charged with obstruction of governmental administration and disorderly conduct. A Yonkers City Court jury acquitted her of the charges May 9. She filed a lawsuit three weeks later. Her lawsuit alleged she was accosted by police when she leaned over to get a better view of the medical assistance being provided to her niece.

As we have seen in the recent attack on radical hip-hippers Rebel Diaz, checking up on those hired to serve the community, can generate a beat down.

Via / LoHud.com, Gothamist

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