DEATH DRIVE
Man beaten by guards is given $400G Sweden truck maniac kills 4
A FEDERAL JURY Friday awarded a former prisoner $400,000 for injuries he suffered after a group of state correction officers beat him while he was restrained.
Sultan Malik, 37, of BedfordStuyvesant, Brooklyn, said he was repeatedly kicked in the head by three officers inside a van set to take him from Southport Correctional Facility to Attica on July, 2 2008.
The officers were upset that Malik had filed a grievance against one of their colleagues, the lawsuit alleges.
“It just escalated from there,” Malik recalled. “They put me in a cell encased in Plexiglas without water and electricity. I couldn’t use the toilet.”
The attack was initiated by Correction Officers Timothy Hable and Sean Davis, according to the suit.
When he was tossed back into the van, Hable, who was the driver, continued to taunt Malik, the lawsuit said. A MAN who reportedly praised terrorists over social media has been accused of stealing a beer truck and ramming it into a crowd of pedestrians in Sweden’s capital on Friday, killing four people and injuring 15 others, authorities said.
Chaos erupted when the stolen truck slammed into a rushhour crowd outside the Ahlens department store in central Stockholm around 3 p.m.
“People were screaming and running in all directions,” said Brandon Sekitto, who was in a nearby parked car.
He said the truck “drove straight into the Ahlens entrance.”
“I saw the driver, a man in black who was light around the face area,” Sekitto told Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter. “I heard how some women were screaming, ‘Run, run!”’
The area was placed on lockdown for hours as Swedish authorities launched a nationwide manhunt for those involved.
A 39-year-old man was arrested nearby the city’s airport around 8:30 p.m. local time, the Swedish attorney general's office announced late Friday.
The unidentified man was ordered held on probable cause for having committed murder and terror crimes.
The suspect was pictured in surveillance images released earlier in the day wearing a hooded sweatshirt and a green military jacket, cops confirmed to local outlets.
The man has praised ISIS over Facebook and uploaded several gory propaganda videos from the terror group, according to the Aftonbladet newspaper. He also allegedly liked a photo depicting victims of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing.
“This indicates that it is an act of terror,” Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said at a news conference.
Lofven added that Sweden “is in a state of shock.”
Swedish beermaker Spendrups confirmed that one of its trucks was stolen on Friday.
The truck’s driver was not injured, the company said.
Photos showed the mangled vehicle sticking out of the department store.
Since last year, ISIS has encouraged jihadists to ram trucks into crowds.
An attack last July in Nice, France on Bastille Day resulted in the death of 86 people and another truck attack on a Berlin Christmas market left 12 dead in December. ISIS took responsibility for both attacks.
In January, four Israeli soldiers were killed and 17 others injured when a Palestinian man with possible ISIS ties slammed his truck into a crowd at a Jerusalem tourist spot.
A similar attack just two weeks ago in London, near Parliament and Westminster Bridge, left four dead.
All of the attacks were committed by men motivated by Islamist extremism.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the bloodshed Stockholm.
In February, President Trump said Sweden could be the next European country to suffer the kind of extremist attacks that have devastated France and Germany.
Two days after his remarks, a riot broke out in predominantly immigrant suburb of Stockholm where police opened fire.