4 Policemen arrested by racism

The arrests of four policemen accused of mistreating Hispanic could uncover a scandal in this working class suburb where the FBI seeking other suspects.

The State is preparing for the possibility of numerous arrests which could decimate the Police Department in the city.

Federal prosecutors have asked witnesses to denounce abuses in East Haven, who was touched by the policemen arrests the week past.

The FBI described as them like a"cancerous" which subjected to beatings and arrests Hispanics false.

In a community which saw the exodus of many Hispanics at the worst time of the allegations by abuse, an obstacle for researchers is to find victims are not prevented by fear to the police or, in some cases, by their immigration status.

Police officers took advantage of immigrants in an irregular situation knowing that probably not u000athey would decry the abuses, according to the indictment.

"Many people are afraid of talking." "We must be careful," said Wilfrido Matute, owner of the trade My Country Store, scene of many incidents of alleged abuse of its clientele, mostly Hispanic. The case adds to a history of friction between police and minorities in East Haven, an ever more diverse community of 28,000 people a generation ago was almost completely white.

Another widespread civil rights inquiry last month found a long-standing discriminatory policy pattern and the city is under pressure from the Department of Justice of the nation to implement reforms.

For the Police Department, the most immediate concern is the prospect of more arrests. The link for the Governor of Connecticut for the policy on criminal justice, Mike Lawlor, said that the State is willing to step in and prop up the Police Department of u000aIf necessary.

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