In an unusual day of testimony in the New York trial of an officer accused of brutalizing a body piercer with his Asp baton, a fellow officer testified that he witnessed the attack, the New York Times reports.
As one of five officers involved in the arrest of Michael Mineo on Oct. 15, 2008 at a Brooklyn subway station, Officer Kevin Maloney testified that he watched Officer Richard Kern poke Mineo in the buttocks with his retractable baton.