A protester holds a sign condemning the New York Police Department during a march in New York against the alleged beating and sexual torture of a Haitian immigrant by white police officers August 29. A crowd of over 5,000 people took part in the protest to support Abner Louima, 30, who suffered severe internal injuries when officers allegedly forced a wooden stick into his rectum in a Brooklyn precinct house bathroom August 9.

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