Kim Nguyen was left badly injured and in a coma after her run-in with the LAPD

Kim Nguyen was left badly injured and in a coma after her run-in with the LAPD

A woman who was seen tumbling out of an LAPD cop car has claimed that she was sexually assaulted by police officers, while she was handcuffed in the back.

27-year-old pharmacist Kim Nguyen was hospitalized for two weeks, had her jaw wired shut, and lost several teeth after a security camera captured her falling out of a moving police car.

Nguyen said that she had been out drinking with a group of friends and the group were standing outside of a downtown restaurant waiting for a cab. According to Nguyen and her companions, two nearby officers abducted Nguyen without apparent cause, driving away and leaving her male friends behind.

She reported: “He was grabbing my left inner thigh, trying to — I’m assuming — opening my legs.”

Nguyen went on to report that the officer fondled her chest and yanked her head around by the ears before pulling up her skirt and trying to force her legs open.
Sometime after that, the door behind her abruptly swung open and she tumbled from the vehicle.
In a statement, she claimed: “I was struggling trying to get him off me. ‘I said, ‘What are you doing? You are a police officer.’ I said, ‘Stop.”

Terrifying surveillance video shows a half-naked Nguyen tumbling from the police car into the street. She was badly injured and only regained consciousness when she emerged from a six-day medically induced coma.
Her injuries included a badly broken jaw, a brain concussion and soft tissue injuries all over her body.

The screenshot of the video-taped incident shoes a handcuffed, half-naked Nguyen with one of the straps on her top missing

The screenshot of the video-taped incident shoes a handcuffed, half-naked Nguyen with one of the straps on her top missing

Nguyen says she does not recall falling from the police car. It is important to note that the back doors of patrol cars cannot be opened from the inside by civilians.

The Los Angeles times has identified David Shin and Jin Oh as the two officers involved. The officers have been allowed to continue their normal working activities on the beat pending litigation.

The LAPD told KCAL that it does not comment on pending litigation.

It also remains unclear why her two male companions were not arrested, if the officers, did indeed suspect them of wrongdoing.
Paramedics say when they arrived, Ms. Nguyen was in handcuffs and sprawled on the street. The handcuffs were taken off shortly after their arrival. The officers claimed that she fell out of their vehicle as they accelerated 10 mph from a stop at the traffic-lights intersection.
background of the officers involved

Nugyen lying bloodied on the streets, with the two officers involved standing over her

Nugyen lying bloodied on the streets, with the two officers involved standing over her

DAVID E. SHIN, LAPD

With a class comprising of 29 students, LAPD officer David E. Shin graduated from the Los Angeles Police Department academy on December 3, 2010. He had earlier studied Criminal Justice at UC Irvine.
Shin’s family migrated from South Korea to the United States in 1992. He lived in Southern California before moving to Tennessee, where he graduated high school in 2002. His first assignment after graduating from the academy was in Wilshire Division.

Easily spotted among LAPD officers because of his short height, glasses, and receding hairline, this 1.5-generation Korean American professes to be Christian and is suspected of being the officer in the back of the patrol car with Miss Nguyen.
As of January 2014, he has not issued any public statement on his role in the Kim Nguyen case as a member of the notorious Olympic Division, which has jurisdiction over Koreatown. He is close friends with his accomplice in that incident, Jinseok Oh.

JINSEOK OH

Jinseok Oh was twenty-six years old when he graduated from the Los Angeles Police Department academy in January 2009.
He moved to the United States with his family at the age of 13 and is considered to be of the 1.5 generation, a group that bears the influence of Korean men known for their abuse of Vietnamese women. He is a graduate of La Mirada High School and majored in criminology in Cal State Long Beach.
He started working at Central Division in downtown L.A. in February 2009 and had been transferred to Olympic Division by 2013.
“Jin” Oh was named one of the defendants in the Kim Nguyen case in 2013. He is close friends with the other defendant, David E. Shin.

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