Posted on 10/01/2013 10:53:47 AM PDT by Morgana
FULL TITLE: Woman arrested for drunk driving sues after video shows her being strip searched by four officers and tossed naked into a cell
A Chicago-area woman arrested in May for drunk driving is now suing county police for what she says was an illegal, humiliating strip search by four officers that was all caught on video.
Dana Holmes was nearly three times over the legal blood alcohol limit when she was pulled over and taken to county jail, where surveillance footage shows her being pulled to the ground by a female officer and three male officers.
The 33-year-old was stripped completely of her clothes and left naked in a cell alone, where she cried on the floor for several minutes before police tossed her a ‘padded suit.’
Holmes was transported to the county jail by local authorities who made no note of any combativeness. Footage of her DUI arrest released to the media shows her cooperating and the local authorities made no note of her resisting behavior.
However, Lasalle County police say local cops informed them she was ‘being mouthy and causing problems’ according to the Chicago Tribune.
It is at the county jail where things take a turn. Holmes is shown being searched against a wall by a female officer as male officers watch.
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Unfortunately, money is the closest she will come to any justice for what they did. And she won’t even likely get that justice from sheltered pigs. That leaves only the local government to answer for it. You and I both know they won’t truly hold responsible those who did this.
And as one person said, the tax payers are responsible for what their government does, including who they hire as cops.You have to be responsible for what your elected government does.
Maybe we should start removing all the protections given to cops, and start voting in sheriffs that understand part of their job is to control their people, not protect them. The sheriff is NOT the union steward, he is the boss. It is time they acted like it.
Oh, in case you missed this part.
Part of the law suite is now the sheriff and local government gets to answer to the voters as to why they are paying for HIS people’s mistakes. That is, if the voters will bother to pay attention to what their cops are doing.
Lasalle County is not Chicago.
“...She’ll win the lawsuit.”
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And if I were on the jury and could influence it, she would win VERY, VERY BIG.
Bad cops (or Sheriff’s deputies) need to be purged from the ranks and made examples of. For every good cop (there was a thread today about a cop having a righteous shootout with a perp motorist who attacked him with a pistol) there seem to be five or six such as these despicable clowns.
This has been happening in Chicago for decades. I saw
a report in the Village Voice way back when I still
read that rag
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