Posted on 10/12/2013 3:46:18 PM PDT by servo1969
A woman is suing a police officer and the town of Skokie, Illinois, after she was seriously injured when a cop threw her into a jail cell face-first following a drunk driving arrest.
Cassandra Feuerstein, 47, claims in a federal lawsuit filed on Wednesday, that excessive force was used in the incident and that she needed reconstructive surgery to 'replace the bones that had been shattered' after being pushed into the cell on March 10.
The video of the incident clearly shows the 47-year-old being roughly shoved into the cell by an officer, who was later identified as Michael Hart.
The beginning of the prison video shows her complying with a female officer during the pat down and search and gives them her bra and shoes.
As she is shoved, she falls forward and strikes her face on the concrete bench. When she lands on the ground, a pool of blood spreads on the floor under her.
Another officer enters the cell and pulls her head onto his lap as he attempts to stop the bleeding.
A paramedic arrives soon after and she is taken to hospital in a stretcher.
Feuerstein claims the officer then filed a false report claiming she resisted police to explain his actions, according to CBS.
'Apparently I was not looking into the camera the way the officer wanted me to', she said at a press conference yesterday, referring to having her mugshot taken right before the incident.
Her lawyer Torreya Hamilton said: 'The video speaks for itself. She does nothing to justify what this male police officer does.
'If this was a tavern fight, which of course it wasn't, it'd be like she got sucker-punched.'
The 47-year-old was charged with resisting an officer as well as drunk driving.
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He wanted to show her he was the man. I bet he's shoved a hundred people into that cell. But this time he ----ed up and the person tripped and smashed their face right into the concrete. Now he's in trouble. So what do they do? Charge her with resisting for getting her face caved in. The other cops will circle the wagons.
Oh, I forgot:
FULL TITLE: The shocking moment a woman was shoved face-first into a concrete jail cell bench by cops: 47-year-old landed so hard she shattered facial bones and needed reconstructive surgery
I hope skokie has deep pockets. What am I saying. Of course they do.
This story has been around for a little while now, maybe a month or so. There are several updates. I think the pig who dunnit is on “payed leave” or some such drivel.
She was drunk. Get over it. If you, sober, have to resort to this to get control of a drunk, you are NOT mentally stable enough to carry a weapon.
That is not a police officer, that a thug with a badge who needs to find a new job in a new field right after he is released from from serving the maximum prison sentence a judge can impose for assault and what ever else they can pin on him.
I was occasionally treated roughly by cops 25 years ago when I was an unresisting, physically passive pro-life vigiler at a clinic: once thrown off a brick porch into a snowbank, once a cop yanked the flex-cuffs so tight (deliberately, after I'd asked politely if he could loosen them) that I had a deep black gash in my wrist and didn't regain sensation in my thumb for weeks.
I don't have a bias against police. My son Ben, in the Marine Reserves, is a Law Enforcement major, graduating this December. But some of them, I think, get a big hot flush of satisfaction from being cruel to helpless people.
They have their money and money they haven’t taken from the taxpayers... yet.
The whole police department should have to pay for abuse of power for falsely charging her for resisting arrest. This would hopefully prevent other lying and abuses by the police.
No big deal hare. This is typical cop behavior. They all
do it. Most cops are just impotent punks with badges
and a gun. Take away the gun and badge and they couldn’t
fight their way out of a wet paper bag.
Obama’s cops, ready for duty at FEMA command.
Face it. Many cops are psychopaths who enjoy bullying over people.
So cops are “pigs” and they get “payed?”
You didn’t know that?
Right penalize the on going criminal conspiracy too.
Careful now, did NOT say 'cops' were pigs. Said THIS PIG. He, himself, alone. And if you can justify his extreme actions, I'd like to hear it. Been in the business of corralling drunks.
Lose your temper, like this, you are NO better than the drunk.
And yes, I believe he was suspended WITH PAY.
You wanna twist words, find someone who doesn't write for a living.
Get a brown paper bag, breath into it and stop hyperventilating. READ WHAT WAS WRITTEN, and get a thicker skin.
If you really are 'on the job,' you know that scoundrels really are out there. Have a good weekend, I really do mean that.
Don’t forget they are all part of a gang with the other gang members backing them up at all times.
Granted the cop was nasty but are we not dealing with a miserable little piece of fate? Drunk drivers kill a lot of people. Maybe too much pity is being spent on this creature and too much venom spent on the cop. Most of us go through life without being arrested and are in little danger from the police. I’ve had traffic stops-(no tickets)- and the event has been uneventful and business like. Maybe we should stop feeling sorry for the criminal element. Just a thought.
Shut that bitch right up. Good job officer.
“Granted the cop was nasty but are we not dealing with a miserable little piece of fate? Drunk drivers kill a lot of people. Maybe too much pity is being spent on this creature and too much venom spent on the cop. Most of us go through life without being arrested and are in little danger from the police. I’ve had traffic stops-(no tickets)- and the event has been uneventful and business like. Maybe we should stop feeling sorry for the criminal element. Just a thought.”
Seems she was a ‘drunk sleeper’.
Had not heard sleeping drunks were a problem.
At least the, ahem, ‘officer’, enjoyed his beat down of a girl.
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