Posted on 05/17/2014 8:14:13 PM PDT by ClaytonP
Shocking footage has emerged of an Ohio woman handcuffed and charged with resisting arrest after sheriffs deputies pinned her down on the floor pried open her mouth to retrieve a Tylenol tablet.
Surveillance video shows Siobhan Householder, 35, of Akron, being confronted last week by a police officer after she took the prescription medication the altercation left her injured and arrested.
Householder was in a holding area while waiting to make a court appearance when she took the medication for a tooth infection, she told the Akron Beacon-Journal.
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You’re too stupid to even get the point.
Well what do expect from a drug addict?
The police deal with a very different crowd than you or I do, so they have to respond differently. To you or I, its none of our business what somebody else puts in their mouth. To the police, they may be dealing with a drug addict who is either planning to smuggle something to somebody on the inside or take some illegal substance.
Unless you deal with addicts all the time, youre hardly in a place to judge them.
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As someone who deals with drug addicts pretty consistanly, I assure you that this is not how one deals with someone who ingests drugs or any foregin object. NO policy any where would support this sort of treatment.
Wanna know what happens when this sort of thing occurs? Ambulance is called and the swallower is transported to ER.
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