Ex-Officer Faces Perjury Charges in Torture Case
A former police officer awaiting retrial in the torture of Abner Louima was indicted on perjury charges.
According to federal prosecutors, Charles Schwarz lied at a trial in 2000 when he denied escorting Louima inside a Brooklyn station house and being present when the Haitian immigrant was assaulted.
Schwarz has said he wasn’t present when Officer Justin Volpe sodomized Louima with a broken broomstick. After Volpe pleaded guilty in the 1997 attack, a jury convicted Schwarz of violating Louima’s civil rights by holding him down during the assault. Last month, a federal appeals court overturned Schwarz’s conviction.
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