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Woman Who Called for Help Assaulted By Police; Police Suing TV Station that Exposed Them
The Cleveland Leader ^ | 2/19/09

Posted on 02/28/2009 6:34:06 AM PST by steve-b

Check out the video below, where WKYC investigative reporter Tom Meyer spoke with Greg Steffey, whose wife, Hope Steffey called 911 after she was assaulted by her cousin. Things took a turn for the worst when the police arrived and treated Hope as the perpetrator. She was arrested, taken to jail, and subjected to a humiliating full-body strip search by both male and female officers, violating the sheriff department's own policy that a strip search be conducted by an officer of the same sex. Hope was then left naked in a cell for six hours. Included in the news segment was video footage of the strip search....

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: assault; cleveland; donutwatch; emergency911; femalecops; leo
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To: steve-b

Fascist thugs hiding behind their badges. There will come a reckoning.


41 posted on 02/28/2009 7:20:16 AM PST by thecabal (Hey Obama, when you gonna start sharin' the sacrifice?)
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To: Pete98
They certainly served and protected the s**t out of her!

And they'd be doing it again and again without a single thing being done about it if not for video tape.
42 posted on 02/28/2009 7:20:20 AM PST by Dr.Zoidberg (Warning: Sarcasm/humor is always engaged. Failure to recognize this may lead to misunderstandings.)
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To: steve-b

“Hope Steffey is apparently not the only one who has suffered such treatment. Five more women later came forward with similar allegations of mistreatment. But according to the police, each of the female detainees threatened suicide, which is what trigged the strip search under the presumption that they had no means of hurting themselves.

All of the women, however, deny making suicide threats.”


43 posted on 02/28/2009 7:21:22 AM PST by Roger_Wildcat
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To: freeplancer

I happen to agree with it. Every one of them would disappear, and the station would burn.


44 posted on 02/28/2009 7:21:23 AM PST by snowrip (Liberal? YOU ARE A GUTLESS SOCIALIST LOSER WITH NO RATIONAL ARGUMENT.)
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To: xcamel
Fired??? They need prison time! That's sexual assault!
45 posted on 02/28/2009 7:26:28 AM PST by ROLF of the HILL COUNTRY ( The Constitution needs No interpreting, only APPLICATION!)
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To: mountn man

The only ones scummier than the cops, is the TV station that “reported” this story. This is incredibly one-sided. The reporter never mentions the husband wasn’t at home when this happened. He didn’t see any of it- at the home or at the police station. Everything he’s saying is second hand information. The reporter makes a point of telling us the sheriff refuses to talk on camera, but never tells us why the alleged victim won’t speak on camera. The reporter makes a big deal about the dashcam not being on. I thought that was for traffic stops where all the action is taking place in front of the cop car. I mean, what’s the purpose of turning on the dashcam if the cops are going inside the house? The newsman also “reports” the husband’s story as fact. I believe there’s only one time in the whole report where he uses the term “they say”. Also, it isn’t until the end of the story the reporter quickly mentions the alleged victim “leaned up against the officer” and gave the cops her sister’s driver’s license. Another odd thing, instead of calling 911 after she was assaulted, the alleged victim had someone else do it. Come on. A bunch of low life white trash were partying, a fight broke out and somebody called the cops (I’d love to hear the 911 tape to see if the caller actually reported this woman was assaulted) Cops arrive and this drunken woman starts screaming in their faces. The cops tell her to shut up. She won’t. Then she “leans” on a deputy and they take her in. If they want to go after the cops for what they did, fine. But they better let us know what scumbags the “victim” and her family are, as well.


46 posted on 02/28/2009 7:34:00 AM PST by Krankor (Vitajex, whatcha doin' to me.)
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To: Krankor

From the video and story you figured out the victims are scum bags and were having a party? I didn’t see that anywhere.

That may well have happened but it doesn’t matter. The fact is they stripped her (male and female officers) and left her naked in a cell for 6 hours. That is unexcuseable.

And where do you get off assuming that the victims are scum bags and partiers and since when did it become illegal to be drunk in one’s own home?


47 posted on 02/28/2009 7:39:02 AM PST by ozarkgirl (I'll keep my money, my freedom and my guns. You can keep the change.)
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To: Krankor

“...they better let us know what scumbags the “victim” and her family are.”

Unbelievable. There is absolutely NOTHING that a woman could be arrested for that would excuse this behavior! This is exactly what it looks like: sick cops getting their jollies by stripping and groping a pretty woman!!!


48 posted on 02/28/2009 7:40:34 AM PST by ROLF of the HILL COUNTRY ( The Constitution needs No interpreting, only APPLICATION!)
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To: Krankor

Ok, it starts...

I don’t care if the lady was drunk, dumb as a box of rocks, stoned, only in our world of 2009 is that a reason to strip a lady naked, and leave her in a cell that way for six hours. Only in America. “You People” want an aggressive, plentiful and empowered police force so that’s what we get. Folks love that until the guns are turned on them or their family.


49 posted on 02/28/2009 7:40:37 AM PST by DariusBane (Even the Rocks shall cry out "Hobamma to the Highest")
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To: DariusBane
Ok, it starts...

Like lemmings rushing to the sea, it's inevitable.
50 posted on 02/28/2009 7:43:39 AM PST by Dr.Zoidberg (Warning: Sarcasm/humor is always engaged. Failure to recognize this may lead to misunderstandings.)
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To: Krankor

If she only had been properly deferential to the LEOs and told them how great and wonderful they were and how thankful she was for them and how they risked their life every day for her and blah, blah, blah, then none of his would have happened, right Krankor?

And as for the white trash comment, by the grace of God, Krankor, only by the grace of God....

What an arrogant cuss you must be.


51 posted on 02/28/2009 7:45:18 AM PST by morkfork (Candygram for Mongo)
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To: steve-b

Wait until martial Law is declared, for any reason. Every police force in the country will jump at the chance to show off their authority and equipment.


52 posted on 02/28/2009 7:53:49 AM PST by Big_Harry ( Thank God I am an "Infidel"!)
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To: BuffaloJack

Sounds flat-out middle of the road moderate to me!


53 posted on 02/28/2009 7:53:53 AM PST by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast (American Revolution II -- overdue.)
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To: steve-b

How could all those people do that to another human being? It’s violent gang rape and they should be charged accordingly.


54 posted on 02/28/2009 7:54:30 AM PST by sazerac
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To: steve-b
Those that perpetrated this crime on a citizen under cover of authority must be held to account. Regardless of the circumstances of arrest a citizen is innocent until proven guilty, the police are there to serve and protect, and because of the greater liberties and responsibilities given to Law Enforcement Officers, are held to a higher, not lower standard than the general citizenry.
55 posted on 02/28/2009 7:56:05 AM PST by Natural Law
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To: Krankor
Let's see, a sheriff hiding under his desk because he doesn’t want to answer questions about the clear abuse and violation of policy of his department, and we have a clearly traumatized, embarrassed and humiliated women refusing the appear on camera after being videotaped being stripped searched (you do know what that involves, don't you), and yet you think her refusal to appear in public, on camera, somehow impeachers the veracity of her injury.

Just viewing the video we can see plainly that the department acted illegally.

(Sidebar: Can you imagine the uproar if it was a MUSLIM woman subjected to this type of search and being stripped naked in front of males. Wow. But because she is not muslim no sensitivity is necessary. We can know that if she was a muslim woman the department would have handled that strip and search differently. Are non-muslim women not allowed the same level of modesty?)

As a former police officer (many years ago) I usually side with the police, giving the benefit of doubt to them. Not in this case. Going by the video alone, the police have much to answer for.

56 posted on 02/28/2009 7:57:13 AM PST by Hulka
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To: Krankor
A bunch of low life white trash were partying, a fight broke out and somebody called the cops

In your world, only the "right" people have any rights, eh?

57 posted on 02/28/2009 8:02:05 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money -- Thatcher)
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To: BuffaloJack

>> Sorry, if that ever happened to my wife, I’d have to hunt down and execute every last one of the LEOs involved.

+1

...and wherever I could arrange it their death would not come quickly. Disgusting vermin.


58 posted on 02/28/2009 8:03:02 AM PST by Nervous Tick (Party? I don't have one anymore.)
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To: steve-b

The only good thing about this whole episode is that a sheriff is an elected official. The citizens can and should turn him out of office over this and replace him with a real reformer who will fumigate the entire department.


59 posted on 02/28/2009 8:03:18 AM PST by Natural Law
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To: ROLF of the HILL COUNTRY

>> This is exactly what it looks like: sick cops getting their jollies by stripping and groping a pretty woman!!!

Did you see that one cow FILMING it??!? I bet it showed up on some porno site on the Internet.


60 posted on 02/28/2009 8:04:59 AM PST by Nervous Tick (Party? I don't have one anymore.)
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