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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In that case, let's just let cops shoot drunk drivers.
This is clear abuse of a vulnerable individual.
The officer easily outweighs her by about 100 pounds. Guys like this give the 99% of hard working law enforcement a HUGE black eye.
"Little danger from the police" Sounds like having a vicious dog in the neighborhood. See anything wrong with the concept?
That’s right, who cares if the law is followed or not. Just let cops make the calls and do what they want.
Says the anonymous person on the internet.
In that case, let’s just let cops shoot drunk drivers
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First they shot the drunk drivers and I said ‘Not to worry, I don’t drink’.
Then they shot the speeders and I said ‘Not to worry..etc’
When they shot the jay-walkers, I said ‘Not to worry..etc’
Finally they got around to ‘shooting’ at me as they had run out of ‘law breakers’.....<: <: <:
I wonder if he’ll get suspended with pay for more than a month.
Anyone have a copy of the police report, the use of force report, the internal affairs report? The written statements of the other officers, the video that is in the other sections of the jail?
No?
Then you haven’t a complete story.
If you were on trial, would you want full disclosure or partial?
Remember, this woman is not making the statement, her attorney is.
Ok, now then. The officer will most likely get fired, lose his license to be police officer and the woman will get paid handsomely.
But let’s be fair. Don’t operate a motor vehicle while intoxicated and these chain of events are most likely never to happen to you.
“That is not a police officer, that a thug with a badge...”
According to a friend of mine who used to be a cop and his dad has been a sheriff for decades, that is what roughly 50% of them are.
All you have to be on these police threads is rational. A rational person, without an axe to grind, knows that there are a few rotten apples in every barrel. And even a good cop on a bad day can make a poor decision. Unless this police officer has a bad record, and I believe I read this guy didn’t and was a police officer for many years, it sounds like he made a bad decision on one bad day.
When he pushed her, I’m sure he was not expecting that she would hit the bench with her face and shatter bones on the way down. He was probably saying to himself “oh sh*t” when it happened. The bad apples need to be weeded out, but blanket statements about all police being bad is way out of line, especially when you may need a cop yourselves one day.
Just be rational, not irrational folks, if possible. A cop lives in my condo building and he’s a really nice guy. Has a beautiful female German Shepherd also, one of my favorite dog breeds. I had one many years ago, and dearly loved her, but that’s an aside.
Well said. Bad cops need to go. Good cops need to be thanked.
First they went for the mugged husbands calling them batterers and estranged...
The comment about just not being drunk and you’ll be safe is incorrect. A corrupt and viscious man operating under the color of authority is a mortal threat to the community. No one is safe because he is using the power of the state, often in concert with other corrupt union cops, and has no restraint. Any officer doing this should be made a into a example with extreme punishment so they will fear abusing citizens. Make them personally liable to lose their property’ pension, liberty, and in some cases their lives (Abner louima case, lying under oath, etc.)
In any case, give him a fair trial by a jury of the community, and if guilty, a fast hanging, so to speak.
Ah yes, the predictable "We haven't heard both sides of the story"...B.S.
"But let’s be fair. Don’t operate a motor vehicle while intoxicated and these chain of events are most likely never to happen to you."
So, If I were to come across a cop driving drunk, it is just fine to smash his face into the pavement a few times because he was driving drunk?
What's that? It is not permissible for a peasant to pound a drunk cop, but understandable to you why a cop would do it?
I never knew it was that easy for police officers to get a paid vacation.
That was the attitude citizens had in Nazi Germany.
“That is not a police officer, that a thug with a badge...”
According to a friend of mine who used to be a cop and his dad has been a sheriff for decades, that is what roughly 50% of them are.
That has not been my experience and I have spent a good bit of time around LEOs.
I have enormous respect for those guys.
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