Posted on 06/30/2014 2:17:27 PM PDT by Red Badger
TEMPE, Ariz. (CBS Las Vegas) - An Arizona State University English professor is claiming self-defense against a campus police officer who slammed her to the front of a police car last month.
Dr. Ersula Ore was walking near campus when she was stopped by an officer while crossing College Avenue near Fifth Street.
“The reason I’m talking to you right now is because you are walking in the middle of the street,” Officer Stewart Ferrin said in a video recording obtained by KTVK. “Let me see your ID or you will be arrested for failing to provide ID.”
“Are you serious?” Ore asked.
“Yes, I am serious. That is the law,” Ferrin replied.
The professor stated that she was trying to cross College Avenue like several other people around her in an attempt to avoid construction, a police report explained.
“I never once saw a single solitary individual get pulled over by a cop for walking across a street on a campus, in a campus location. Everybody has been doing this because it is all obstructed. That’s the reason why,” Ore told the officer. “But you stop me in the middle of the street to pull me over and ask me, ‘Do you know what this is? This is a street.’ ”
Ferrin asked her if she knew that it was street. Before Ore could finish her statement, he demanded that she put her hands behind her back.
“Don’t touch me,” Ore said. “Get your hands off me.”
The officer demanded for her to comply again.
“Put your hand behind your back. I’m going to slam you on this car. Put your hand behind your back,” Ferrin stated.
“You really want to do that? Do you see what I’m wearing? Do you see?” Ore said.
At the time of the incident the professor was wearing a black dress. The police officer “slammed” her onto the car and she was then wrestled to the ground where her dress rose exposing her body.
Ferrin and Ore suffered minor injuries and she was charged with aggravated assault on a police officer, criminal damage and obstructing a thoroughfare.
The video shows Ore also kicking Ferrin while he was arresting her.
Ore plans to fight the charges and her attorney, Alane Roby, explained that she responded in self-defense.
“She was exposed, told officer she was exposed,” Roby stated of Ore to KTVK. “Her dress was up; the officer was reaching toward her anatomy. She felt uncomfortable with hands going there.”
The university released a statement to KTVK explaining that “ASU authorities have reviewed the circumstances surrounding the arrest and have found no evidence of inappropriate actions by the ASUPD officers involved. Should such evidence be discovered, an additional, thorough inquiry will be conducted and appropriate actions taken.
“Because the underlying criminal charges are pending, there is not much more we can say at this time. The Maricopa County Attorney’s Office has reviewed all available evidence, including the police report, witness statements, and audio and video recordings of the incident, and decided to press criminal charges of assaulting a police officer, resisting arrest, refusing to provide identification when requested to do so by an officer, and obstructing a highway or public thoroughfare.”
She is a race regulator and loves cops... Except when they beat on her.... Typical.
The ones I know make “The Big Bang Theory” reality TV.
She didn’t have to be wrestled to the ground. She’s the one who made the choice to fight the officer.
From the ASU Directory Profile
Assistant professor.
Research Interests:
Contemproary(sic) Rhetorical Theory, Race Critical Theory, Rhetorics of Race & Culture, Composition, Visual and Material Culture Studies.
African American Rhetoric.
I side with the woman. The Cop was an arrogant pr*ck.
And since when in America can they demand “Papers” to prove your identity?
We are becoming more totalitarian by the day.
The cops could save themselves so much trouble if they’d just leave people who aren’t hurting anyone alone. Just back off. Let people live their lives.
Is this an impossible dream?
Placed in detention and ICE notified.
This has the makings of another beer summit.
cop is far more to blame, abuse of authority deserves harder punishment.
I thought the Federal gov’t told Arizona that those actions were against the law? I remember Obama saying those poor illegal families can’t even go out for ice cream without fear of detention.
She was fortunate that he did not kill her.
Only parts of Prop 204 were struck down. Asking for ID during a criminal stop has nothing whatsoever to do with Prop 204, that’s just standard procedure.
Once an officer gets an offender to the station for processing, and that offender is identified as an illegal alien, the offender is turned over to ICE for processing.
What really happened with Prop 204 has been heavily misreported by a media sympathetic to the lawless.
It is now. At one time it wasn’t.
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Just one of the 10,000 laws we give the cops as an excuse to check people’s papers.
Oops, not a female cop. This guy is seriously disturbed.
Thanks for the clarification.
” Don’t require the cop hating idiots to
consider the facts. They are irrelevant if it
supports their opinions.”
And don’t ask boot lickers to ever question a cop’s actions. They are too busy groveling at the feet of cops.
Now that the mutual insulting is over, have you every really considered why so many people hate cops? Or do you just assume everyone is a criminal?
Maybe instead of asking "Am I being detained," the first question one should ask is "Are you going to read me my rights first?"
-PJ
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