An unarmed gay Staten Island man was violently beaten and called “faggot” in front of his own house by NYPD officers on June 19th. and now plans to sue in federal court for civil rights violations
Louis Falcone, a catering assistant says his nightmare began around 4:30 a.m.when his brother arrived at the home that they both share with their mother “obnoxiously drunk” after a night of partying.
“We had words,” he said. “I was yelling at him; he was yelling at me.
About an hour after the argument ended four NYPD cops showed up at the front door.
I’m talking to them through the screen door, they’re saying to come outside,” Falcone recalled. “I said, ‘For what?”
Then, his dog Looch, part pitbull, began barking.
“The cops said, ‘Get your dog out of here or I’ll f—— kill it!’” Falcone says. “I was like, ‘What do you mean you’re going to kill my dog?’”
He said he was shooing Looch away when an officer yanked Falcone outside.
“They threw me against the concrete in front of my house,” They were hitting me for no reason. One puts his knee on my neck. They were all piling on top of me.”
And while the four policemen beat the 150 lb. Falcone they repeatedly called him “fag” and “faggot”
“While I was on the ground, I had mud and blood in my mouth,” he said. “One (of the cops) said, ‘Don’t let it get on you, he probably has AIDS, the faggot.’”
Falcone suffered a broken nose, two black eyes, cuts to his face and body.
A neighbor cross the street videotaped the incident.
The N.Y.P.D. did not return phone calls from this website.
Source N.Y. Daily News