NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York City man who says police beat and sodomized him on a subway station platform sued the city, the police department and the accused officers for $220 million on Thursday for civil rights violations. Three New York City police officers pleaded innocent in December to criminal charges that one of them sodomized Michael Mineo on ...

A man filed a $220 million lawsuit on Thursday claiming that New York Police Department officers robbed him of his civil rights by sodomizing him with a baton in a subway station. Michael Mineo, a body piercer who works in a tattoo parlor, spelled out ...

A tattoo parlor employee who claims he was assaulted and sodomized by New York City police officers has filed papers to sue the city and the police department. Michael Mineo says he was attacked Oct. 15 in a subway station. Officer Richard Kern ...