February 18, 2002 -- New Yorkers detained in China last week for protesting a government crackdown on the Falun Gong [group] said cops roughed them up, denied them access to American diplomats and stole their electronic gear before throwing them out of the country.
Levi Browde, a software engineer from the Upper West Side, said cops searched him and his friends in the subway station under Tiananmen Square and tackled him after finding Falun Gong material on a friend of his.
"Two policemen threw me to the floor and headlocked me," Browde said. "They slammed my face onto the floor and took me to the police station."
He said the cops interrogated him for 90 minutes and tried to get him to sign a statement written in Chinese, which he doesn't speak or read.
Browde said he was not beaten during questioning but saw an American woman emerge from her interrogation with a bloody nose and "scrapes all over her face."
After many hours in custody, the Yanks, all practitioners of Falun Gong, were dragged onto airplanes and deported.
"I think we were very, very fortunate, considering," Scott Chynn said of his encounter with the Chinese police. "They make the NYPD look like puppy dogs."
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