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Recommend Suit Filed: Black Man Locked Up for Shoplifting Beaten to Death by Group of Cops for Singing in His Cell in NY (Email)

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From [HERE] A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed by the family of an inmate who died at the Suffolk County Jail in Riverhead two years ago.

According to the family's attorney, Andre Seabrook, was beaten by a group of guards at the Suffolk County Jail in Riverhead. They claim the guards punched, kicked and stomped the 46-year-old inmate for singing and humming in his cell.

Seabrook, of Amityville, was left paralyzed below the waist and unable to urinate on his own. Six weeks later, Seabrook died unexpectedly.

Attorney Frank Andrea says Seabrook was nonviolent criminal. He had been arrested for allegedly shoplifting a tent from a department store.

"It was a petit larceny, and to have this happen to him is pretty horrific," says Andrea.

Seabrook's relatives filed a $2 million wrongful death lawsuit at the federal courthouse in Central Islip. They blame his death on an ongoing policy of abuse against non-whites.

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