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Woman arrested for drunk driving sues after video shows her being strip searched.....
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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Conspiracy
KEYWORDS: cops; donutwatch; illinois; lawenforcement
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1 posted on 10/01/2013 10:53:47 AM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

She’s lucky they didn’t take her to some dilapidated building in the ghetto, and shove her out a window.


2 posted on 10/01/2013 10:55:53 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The monsters are due on Maple Street)
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To: Morgana

Of note, of course, is that this info has to come from a news source outside our country.


3 posted on 10/01/2013 10:59:04 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The monsters are due on Maple Street)
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To: Morgana

ummmm, from what I’ve seen....really.

NOT GUILTY!


4 posted on 10/01/2013 11:02:22 AM PDT by trappedinnj (Missing Something)
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To: UCANSEE2
Of note, of course, is that this info has to come from a news source outside our country.

Of noted this on several occasions. Why is a British paper running stories of local silliness happening in the U.S.?

5 posted on 10/01/2013 11:04:58 AM PDT by mbarker12474
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To: Morgana

She is OBVIOUSLY not guilty.

In fact, I think she was 3 times more sober than legally stone-cold sober - like a -0.24% or even a -0.30 even


7 posted on 10/01/2013 11:09:20 AM PDT by GilesB
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To: F15Eagle

quite obvious: Not Guilty..


8 posted on 10/01/2013 11:21:15 AM PDT by southland ( I have faith in the creator)
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To: UCANSEE2

Oh yeah, she’ll sue, and maybe win... But the rapist creepazoid bastards will get “Suspended with Pay.”
Reminiscient of THE ACCUSED.
Of course if they had deigned to ruffle the Hijab of a Muslimette, they’d all be crucified.


9 posted on 10/01/2013 11:23:12 AM PDT by golux
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To: GilesB

I speculate it was simple as this... the officers said to their pals: “We arrested an attractive babe for DUI, she’s pretty drunk... so anybody wanna see her naked”?


10 posted on 10/01/2013 11:27:24 AM PDT by FiddlePig
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To: FiddlePig

That’s what I’m guessing. Maybe not saying, but certainly thinking.


11 posted on 10/01/2013 11:30:47 AM PDT by GilesB
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To: Morgana

She’ll win this suit hands down. There was no reason other than she “mouthed off”. Apparently it’s against the constitution to say anything but “Yes, sir” and “No, sir” to cops.

She’s very pretty but she could be butt ugly and the cops were still wrong.


12 posted on 10/01/2013 11:36:34 AM PDT by VerySadAmerican (".....Barrack, and the horse Mohammed rode in on.")
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To: Morgana

“and left naked in a cell alone”

You can see in the video that she has her black top on.


13 posted on 10/01/2013 11:38:53 AM PDT by philetus (Keep doing what you always do and you'll eventually get what you deserve)
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To: Morgana

I don’t think she should get any money from this lawsuit. Why should she? She’s not out any money. Go ahead and fire the cops if they acted inappropriately. Their actions did not cost her anything monetarily. The lawsuit lottery system needs to end. Why should the taxpayers have to pay off a drunk driver?


14 posted on 10/01/2013 11:40:29 AM PDT by Veggie Todd
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To: Veggie Todd
Go ahead and fire the cops if they acted inappropriately.

. . . or Jesus might come back. Which do you think would occur first?

15 posted on 10/01/2013 11:52:08 AM PDT by Oatka (This is America. Assimilate or evaporate.)
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To: philetus

It’s not her black top.

” left naked in a cell alone, where she cried on the floor for several minutes before police tossed her a ‘padded suit.”


16 posted on 10/01/2013 11:55:48 AM PDT by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
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To: Veggie Todd

I agree with you only as far as the officers being fired and not making the taxpayer pay. This was a serious breach of the woman’s rights by these officer and they should not only pay for it with their jobs but monetarily as well. You are kind of like one of the people on the site that basically said she was driving drunk so whatever happened to her is OK. What she did was wrong, but since when does that give the police the right to trample her rights. I wonder if it was your daughter, would you still feel the same?


17 posted on 10/01/2013 11:57:58 AM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Veggie Todd

“Why should the taxpayers have to pay off a drunk driver?”

Because the taxpayers’ employees violated her rights. Don’t want to pay? Get some better employees.


18 posted on 10/01/2013 11:58:02 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Boogieman

Yep.

Watched the video at the link above. She was cooperating, when the female officer lifts her right foot, she loses her balance and that’s when the officer on the right puts her in an arm lock and takes her down.

She’ll win the lawsuit.


19 posted on 10/01/2013 12:03:50 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (I will not comply.)
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To: Mastador1
You are kind of like one of the people on the site that basically said she was driving drunk so whatever happened to her is OK.

I didn't say that at all. I'm just saying that what happened to her didn't cost her any money, so why should she get paid? And I don't have a daughter, unless you know something I don't....

20 posted on 10/01/2013 12:06:28 PM PDT by Veggie Todd
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