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Adams: Louima Backing Me Because He Knows Where I've Come From

By RICHARD STEIER
Posted 5/5/21

During his May 4 endorsement for Mayor by Abner Louima, a reporter asked Eric Adams how he had gotten the backing of the victim of one of the ugliest incidents of brutality in the NYPD's history despite not being one of the candidates who had called for defunding the department over the past year.

"My activism," the Brooklyn Borough President replied, "began on the floor of the 103rd Precinct" when he was a "15-year-old baby" who had been take into custody. "I was kicked repeatedly in my groin, urinated blood for a week," he told reporters gathered in City Hall Park. "Those bruises made me, but the scars remain forever."

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