Strip search of woman by Sheriff's Deputies called outrageous

WKYC.com ^ | 1/31/2008 | Susan Vinella

[VRing]

CANTON -- Hope Steffey's night began with a call to police for help. It ended with her face down, completely naked and sobbing on a jail cell floor. Steffey says Stark County sheriff's deputies used excessive force and assaulted her during a strip search 15 months ago, according to a federal lawsuit.

[VRing]

An interesting video of our protectors in action.

[r9etb]

Filed under, “There is one hell of a lot more to this story than this lady’s attorney is telling us.”

[Politicalmom]

At least they didn’t shoot her dog.

“Protect and Serve”, my eye.

[fso301]

I need to see photos before I can pass judgement

[al baby]

I agree something else is going on

[al baby]

You can’t see the video?

[VRing]

“At least they didn’t shoot her dog.”

I”m surprised they didn’t taser her when she objected to being forcibly stripped naked by a bunch of male cops.

[ARE SOLE]

I file it under , why the hell are two male officers participating in removing her bra and panties?

[Graycliff]

(((Filed under, “There is one hell of a lot more to this story than this lady’s attorney is telling us.”)))

Oh Yea!!

[svcw]

Could be true as she stated it, yet somehow it just doesn’t pass the smell test.

[Malsua]

That’s disturbing.

Two males were last to leave her naked. Stark County loses this one.

[Long Island Pete]

Cant back the cops on this one. They are dead wrong and I hope this woman gets millions. If her only crime was showing the wrong drivers license, then arrest my butt too. Because my brother just passed away and I have his also in my wallet because I want him close to me.

[ARE SOLE]

Cant back the cops on this one. They are dead wrong and I hope this woman gets millions. If her only crime was showing the wrong drivers license, then arrest my butt too. Because my brother just passed away and I have his also in my wallet because I want him close to me.

You are right. Sorry for your loss Pete.

Best regards

[dmz]

So, they stripped her. Pretty clear from the video. But it was not a strip search. OK. Then what was it?

While there is clearly something we don’t know, can anyone who thinks the woman was disorderly come up with a decent explanation of why the cops needed to strip her down while cuffed when they were just going to put her in a cell for the next few hours?

[org.whodat]

Some real dunba=s cop thugs!

[Husker24]

She probably threatened suicide. I used to work in a County Jail and when someone came in threatening suicide they had to take all their cloths off and be put in a special cell, except in our case they were covered in a suicide smock, which is a thick inflexible thing that they wore to cover themselves with, that they couldn't turn into a rope. They were also put on 15 minute checks.

[4yearlurker]

Those robot cops scare the crap out of me!!! It was like she was being rapped. Un-friggin believable!! These are the same cops that will go into neighborhoods and start loading families into flat bed trucks. They all should be fired. You have no rights and you are guilty!!!! I hope the Bozo sheriff gets sued for everything!! This crap has got to stop.

[Greg F]

Cops just wrong here. Wierd.