NY Cop went hunting for Latino homeless man & then Beat him Down, DA says

 
AP A suburban policeman hunted down a homeless, frequently arrested illegal immigrant, hit him hard and left him to die last year, a prosecutor told jurors in opening statements of his manslaughter trial Friday. Assistant District Attorney Perry Perrone said Mount Kisco Officer George Bubaris later confided to a colleague, "I went out hunting or looking for Rene Perez. I found him. I took him to Byram Lake Road," where Perez was found. Perrone said that the next day, as it became known that Perez had died, Bubaris told the colleague, Officer Edward Dwyer, "You're the only one that knows, bro." Perez, 42, had a long history of drunkenness, arrests and 911 calls in Mount Kisco and neighboring Bedford, about 40 miles north of New York City. Defense attorney Andrew Quinn called the prosecution's case "medically absurd" because Perez often injured himself while drunk. He also said Dwyer, who is to testify, "had demons of his own." In April 2007, Perez called police from a coin laundry, possibly seeking a lift to a hospital. Prosecutors say Bubaris, 31, drove the intoxicated Guatemalan immigrant to an out-of-the-way area in Bedford and "inflicted blunt force trauma to Perez's abdomen," leaving him severely injured. Though the indictment does not say how the trauma was inflicted, a lawsuit filed by Perez's brother suggests a nightstick was used. [MORE]