The Wood Review: Abner Louima's Police Torture As Scoop
In 1997, a Haitian immigrant named Abner Louima was arrested outside a Brooklyn nightclub, taken to the 70th police precinct, and sodomized with a wooden handle, which was then used to bash in his teeth. "The Wood," a new play by Dan Klores opening at Rattlestick Theater, features Louima's brutalization by the police, and thus [...]