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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Should have been jail time for the cops...
Naked Lives Matter
de oppresso liber baby!
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