Posted on 10/11/2013 5:21:56 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Cassandra Feuerstein of Chicago was thrown face first by a Skokie officer into a concrete jail cell bench, suffering multiple injuries, her lawyer says. Feuerstein was arrested in March on suspicion of driving under the influence.
A Chicago woman arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence has filed a lawsuit alleging police in Skokie, Ill., violently threw her into a jail cell, shattering several bones in her face.
Cassandra Feuerstein, 47, was arrested March 10 and charged with DUI after police found her sleeping on the side of the road as she sat behind the wheel of her car.
Surveillance video released Wednesday shows a calm Feuerstein being taken out of a jail cell for processing by a male officer.
According to Feuerstein’s lawyer, Torri Hamilton, seconds after her client asked to call her husband and children, the officer hurled the 110-pound woman back into the cell with such force that she fell and landed face first on a concrete bench.
Bleeding profusely, Feuerstein lies motionless for several seconds before two other officers come to her aid.
"The video speaks for itself," Torri Hamilton, Feuerstein's lawyer, told the Chicago Tribune. "She does nothing to justify what this male police officer does."
Hamilton said Feuerstein filed suit because no disciplinary action was being taken against the officer. While Feuerstein pleaded guilty to driving under the influence, the State’s Attorney dropped charges made by the officer that she had resisted arrest.
Feuerstein suffered several broken bones in her face, was fitted for a titanium plate in her cheek and required reconstructive surgery as a result of the incident, Hamilton said.
"This can go from 0-60 so quickly, like this man did with someone who's clearly no threat to him is dangerous — could be dangerous with that type of power that he has," Hamilton told News 5 Chicago. "She doesn't even know - we don't even know what she's going to need in the future."
I meant should that law be applied to the cop who shoved the woman?
Any car is legally a lethal weapon. It’s one reason, the most important reason, licenses are issued.
It is a privilege to have a license.
And it continues to be so after it is issued.
A 110 pound woman can do a whole lot of injury and death behind the wheel. She has much potential to do so, passed out at the wheel, ready to awaken and start driving again.
She was not, at 47 years old, about to cell phone someone responsible at home to come get her.
At 47 Drinking in public, You’re either a drunk, who does this very often or you are a drunk who does this habitually.
Maybe having to peel children off the grill of the front end of the drunk drivers’ car in front of a despondent mother leaves cops in a particular position. I don’t know.
color of law
Whoever, under color of any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, willfully subjects any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or to different punishments, pains, or penalties, on account of such person being an alien, or by reason of his color, or race, than are prescribed for the punishment of citizens, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both;
I know, by this statute, that I have the right to be protected from drunk drivers.
Did this cop enhance those rights? Probably not.
Does the judicial system?
Not for the money I pay them in taxes.
I don’t drive in my town on Friday nights. Too many drunk drivers.
They own the road.
There’s no regard for this law as it pertains to me and my family and our safety.
There are more deaths in my state on the roads every year than 1000 times as were killed in any shooting massacre in the past two years. But people accept that as normal.
Some cops get sick of the death, I imagine.
Is that a yes or a no?
Welcome to a permanent spot on everyone's douchebag list.
Think about it
I suggest stanne save herself future embarrassment and nuke her own post. Wrong on facts, wrong on principle.
Ma’am you don’t have the “right” for police to do SQUAT for you... USSC says so.
Anyhow you have a severe self-vengeance problem. Does it really eat you that the bible says beloved, do not take your own vengeance, but make room for the wrath [of God]? Apparently it does because you are bucking it with all your strength. Can’t even wait for a judge or jury to sit and pick through the accusations.
What’s to think about? You weaseled.
That’s an insult to weasels, frankly.
Governments that don’t even bother to find out facts before meting out punishments are not considered wise. They are considered tyrants. And it’s a good thing that stanne is not in a position to actually BE a tyrant.
And... the whole arrangement of government investigation and trial of crimes is supposed to be the closest practical earthly mirror to divine justice. That’s why witnesses are traditionally sworn on bibles. As soon as we let someone’s pet irritation hobby horse drag off the whole show, we have a mockery of God going on here.
Irrelevant, stanne.
The same state that would feed Alice’s hobby horse might gore Betty’s ox for no good reason.
We can only hope. I also hope the cop is fired and blacklisted for employment by any other LE agency so that he can never work in LE again. Bullies and short-tempered hotheads have no place in LE, and the people who pay taxes to fund LEO paychecks should demand that people like the cop in this situation are not hired for that job.
We have an increasingly jaded world here, and the likely ding to the city coffers is also likely to get met with a yawn. Everything is so impersonal now. Well that’s what a bunch of starvelings (with respect to God’s grace) looks like.
>> I know, by this statute, that I have the right to be protected from drunk drivers.
Actually, you don’t have the right to be protected from drunk drivers — basically, drunk drivers don’t have the right to drive.
Bump
stanne is screaming, in fact, for a state to be a nanny. It can NOT be a nanny... it lacks the resources to do nannydom right. But mere boring, and at least attemptedly impartial, administration of investigations, trials, and punishments upon due conviction... why there’s no satisfaction in that! Not for those who want states to be nannies!
Some folks speak up, like you and I, for real things. And some grind their grievance axes. Maybe we should take stanne with a pound of salt. Asinine cases like that can be a dog on the internet, for all we know.
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