Posted on 12/22/2020 10:36:50 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
A woman in Colorado who was arrested five years ago while she was naked inside her private room at a sober living facility, was bound to a chair at a jail for several hours and was shocked twice with a Taser, was paid $2.4 million in a settlement Sunday.
In May 2014, three deputies with the Fremont County Sheriff’s Office knocked on then 49-year-old Carolyn O’Neal’s door at New Creations Inn, a homeless transitional housing program in Cañon City, Colo., to perform a welfare check after management reportedly grew concerned she might harm herself.
According to court documents, O’Neal insisted that she was not trying to harm herself and told deputies to leave because she was naked and about to take a bath, the Denver Post reported. The deputies entered using a key and, at some point, decided to place O’Neal under arrest, throwing her onto the bed and handcuffing her while she remained unclothed.
They covered her in a blanket before walking her outside in daylight and bringing her to jail instead of a hospital. Her arms and legs were bound to a chair for about four hours. Jail security camera footage showed she was covered with a drape and deputies placed a spit mask over her head, Fox 31 reported.
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O’Neal, a mother and grandmother, was initially charged with resisting arrest and disorderly conduct for "offensive utterances" in connection to the incident, but all charges were later dismissed by a judge. According to her attorney, O’Neal had been sporadically homeless throughout her life, struggled with alcohol and drug addiction, and was abused by men.
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Hope grandma can stay clean and make the most of her compensation.
Being wrongly arrested while naked, I hate when that happens.
That sounds almost as bad as my childhood recurring dream;
I wound up in my elementary school naked. I’d wake up in a cold sweat...
And add getting tazed to that scenario? Yikes!
That’s a hard looking 49 year old
Telling police officers who are wrong where they can go is now an actionable offense? We have fallen far from the ideals of liberty...
Bad boys, bad boys...what they gonna do, what they gonna do when you’re in the nude.
Nice for her that she gets all that taxpayer money while the perps go free.
ML/NJ
Being wrongly arrested while naked, I hate when that happens.
I hate it even more when I'm rightfully arrested while naked.
Regards,
Grandma is such a nice easy target...Now if she were with 25 anarchist dressed in black, who were looting, torching the town while assaulting the innocent, they’ll look the other way and blame the mayor for not allowing them to do their jobs. Always go for the easy targets.
And the best way to make sure that she doesn't harm herself is for the police to harm her.
When I was a kid, I remember my father telling me about a comic strip involving a cop named Fearless Fosdick who shot people who were about to eat a can of poisoned beans. Absurdist literature is becoming reality.
The only naked theme thread where pictures are not wanted.
I will be standing here, naked as a jaybird. Come get me coppers!
They’re not coming for you because they know you’re holding an unloaded weapon :P
Yep. Saw this on newsmax yesterday. 1st thing I told my wife was this woman hit the lottery.
You can bet that if the coppers ever show up at my door I stripping everything off before I open the door for that kind of money.
. If I’m naked then I assume they are there to award me a prize. “Please, Sir. Cover up. Well give you a million dollars - anything. “
If that was her arrest pic ... no makeup because she was getting in the bath and after having been tased ... I would say she looks pretty d*amned good.
Canon City, as beautiful as it is, can be one very nasty place. It’s as crooked as they come.
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