She started the night drinking at home — and ended it being pepper-sprayed in a restraint chair

The Washington Post ^ | September 14th, 2016 | By Peter Holley

[Mariner]

By the time Amber Swink was strapped into a restraint chair in an isolation cell, she had already been pepper-sprayed once.

Barely able to open her eyes as she struggled inside a seven-point harness at the Montgomery County Jail in Dayton, Ohio, Swink could hear deputies laughing.

Moments later, for reasons the 25-year-old said she still doesn’t understand, Sgt. Judith L. Sealey approached the chair and fired a burst of pepper spray into Swink’s face at point-blank range.

Swink had been arrested during a night of heavy drinking at her home that evening. Swink admits that she was still somewhat intoxicated at the time but recalled that the pain was nearly unbearable as her face was coated with oleoresin capsicum.

[Ken H]

As far as this, no one should ever believe the Washington Post to be accurate and not distort things.

Here's the video =>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y5ROAVg_UE

What do you think?

[RandallFlagg]

Bookmarking

[cynwoody]

Rosemary Lehmberg?

[Cboldt]

-- Judith Sealey, the cop with the pepper spray is black, the restrained woman white. --

Racially motivated attack, you can be sure of that.

[RoosterRedux]

Amazing that a reporter from the WaPo doesn't know how to conjugate the verb "spit."

Plummer said Swink spit on the officer and punched a cell window once inside the jail.

The past tense of the verb "spit" is "spat."

[NonValueAdded]

Police officer in Orlando just convicted for kneeing a prisoner in a holding cell. Former OPD cop found guilty of felony battery. That is probably the appropriate charge in this case too.

No doubt there are plenty of bad ones to weed out. Time to update they pysch screening process.

[60Gunner]

Yeah, I’ll take this one on the chin. I was a knucklehead.

[saleman]

Yep.

You must submit to your betters or else. It’s not like the same, or similar has not happened thousands of times in my life time.

Much of the assaults on Cops I see as blowback....or payback take your pick, for those thousands of incidents. I can’t summon up much sympathy.

[sport]

Because they could.

[Flying Circus]

The article says she is black and was later promoted to captain in response to claims of racism against deputies in the department.

[scripter]

You’re definitely not the first to ask! I’m not interested in providing any details for privacy concerns and only briefly mention it here to let others know it happens more than it gets reported on a national level.

[scripter]

Indeed. Still, I can’t condone what others do as payback/whatever although I understand it.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

I would like to know what they considered a "domestic disturbance". Was she beating up on someone while they hollered for help or was she engaged in an argument over who played the best Superman with someone who was in the basement?

[Mears]

Thanks——another unearned promotion.

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[soycd]

Reply are not spam and a link to a video is far, far from linking to an image. The relevance is there, it’s not hard to see and it’s not rap. I don’t do dumb rap.

[loungitude]

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[heartwood]

Plummer said Sealey received a written form of discipline known as a “letter of citation,” which would remain in her file for six months. The sheriff said he couldn’t remember when the incident came to his attention, but he said he hadn’t seen the video because footage is stored only for 30 days before being deleted.

That'll teach her. A six month tsk-tsk. Sealey should be fired, charged with aggravated assault, and abuse of authority, tried and found guilty, sentenced to prison, and stripped of pension.

All those who participated in the cover-up and disappeared the records should be demoted, receive permanent reprimands and a suspension without pay, and that includes Sheriff Plummer. Or they could just accept termination.