21.   Last September two plainclothes officers were accused of severely beating a man in East Harlem.

22.   Later that year, an officer was accused of fatally shooting an unarmed customer at a downtown motorcycle repair shop.

23.   One officer was accused of being a member of a Chicago gang.

24.   One document described an interview in which the drug dealer accused an officer named Camacho of planting drugs on people he believed were dealers before he arrested them.

25.   Protesters accused the officer of past abuses, and some spoke of racism.

26.   Several of the teen-agers also were injured, and some accused officers of using excessive force and racial slurs.

27.   Such third-party suits are filed when stockholders accuse officers of breaching their fiduciary duty to a company.

28.   The case has had bitter racial overtones from the time that Louima, who is black, first accused the officers, who are white, of brutalizing him.

29.   The officers are also accused of sodomizing Louima with a toilet plunger and then smashing him in the mouth with the handle.

30.   The officers were accused of illegally obtaining dozens of false convictions by planting evidence, lying, and robbing.