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Posts Tagged ‘Irma Marquez

2008_06_ykrscopbrut.jpgI 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.

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