Stripper bodyguard claims 4 Brookline cops beat him up
Four Brookline cops have been put on [paid] administrative leave as the department investigates claims by a strippers hired guard that he was severely beaten by intoxicated off-duty officers early Sunday morning.
Police did not release the names of the officers involved or or say why they were removed from duty. The departments Office of Professional Responsibility is investigating the claims.
The guards lawyer, John Saliba, said
his client suffered a fractured eye socket, broken nose and multiple facial cuts in the incident.
Saliba said the driver, Bob Sonia, works for Shamrock Entertainment, an agency that has strippers on call for parties day and night. Saliba said
a caller requested the dancer for a bachelor party on Beacon Street in Brookline.
Saliba said
when the dancer arrived about 4 a.m. Sunday, Sonia escorted her to a basement apartment. Inside, he said, they encountered
four men, who told the dancer they were no longer interested in seeing a show.
They said Oh, we changed our minds, Saliba said. We dont want to do it anymore.
Sonia tried to collect the fee, and the dancer asked for gas money, but Saliba said the men refused both requests.
Then they said, Look we didnt want to play this card, but were all cops, so get outta here, Saliba said. They left and crossed the street. The exotic dancer was driving.
He sees one of the inebriated persons with an object close to the trunk. Mr. Sonia got out of the car. At that point there was a brutal, savage and vicious beating.
Sonia claims
he was beaten and kicked in the face until uniformed police were called, Saliba said. He said those officers handcuffed Sonia and left him on the ground while the group of on-duty and off-duty officers spoke at some distance away. Saliba said at some point an ambulance arrived Sonia was taken to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
Saliba said Sonia will need plastic surgery.
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