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."
Or, if not fired, have his weapons take away and put on permanent duty where he is only allowed to go through dumpsters on evidence searches. If he doesn’t like that he can retire.
He clearly over reacted to her unwillingness to pose for the mugshot. He escalated from there.
Breaking her face seems reasonable to you for sleeping in a parked car?
“Is your mommy a cop? Maybe you can suck a fart out of her ass.”
Is your IQ that far below room temp?
Document resume enhancement! I guess they consider being in a gang like doing a career-relevant internship.
Well, we have a legal system in this country. It’s not perfect, but anyone who doesn’t like it can move to Russia. it doesn’t include a cop physically punishing an unconvicted person.
I think you’d still get a better chance in Russia.
Now Cuba has a system similar, but perhaps milder, to Chicago. I guess Chicago is like Cuba without the cigars, rum and tropical climate!
seems like stanne ain’t coming back to this thread.
That speaks louder than the actual violence.
“A big man like that must have huge testicles.”
Better targets.
Here we just break their faces before we try them.
Seriously? She was sleeping in the car, not driving.
Everyone makes mistakes. She probably just didn’t think through everything. It happens to everyone.
I am guessing that this was revenge for something she said or did while being processed, which cops can't do, either. If she resisted being put in the cell, let the video record that and show it at trial.
Working in a jail you are going to get yelled at, spit at, bit, puked on, an occasionally somebody goes full primate and starts flinging poo. If you can't handle that you should get another job. If you are working the jail waiting for a street cop job to open up and can't stand the jail you shouldn't be on the street. There you need to cuff, and treat like a human being, the guy that just tried to kill you,
DHS wasn’t in that table above, but they have the same number of people as the US Marine Cops.
AND **TWICE** THEIR BUDGET.
“Corrected your comment for grammar and punctuation.”
“are morphing have morphed”
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Thank you, but note that I was referring to twelve years in the past. I can imagine how they are now.
He acted sadistically.
Probably sick of repeat offenders such as her.
She was innocently snoozing, or passed out wasted in the drivers seat with keys in the ignition.
This is NOT her first time driving drunk. And we have a legal system which does not take away the right to drive for a repeat offender.
A car is a deadly weapon and it can kill = innocents.
This cop is in a world of trouble, and should be. and with our drunk driving enabling legal system, probably bought her some kind of a ticket to drink and drive again.
We can be sure a two month rehab is not going to get a 47 year old life long drinker sober.
On military bases, they don’t allow drunk driving.
One offense and the career is over, no driving privleges no matter what the circumstances.
One offense.
Cop is sick of it, probably, our country letting people drive drunk.
Of course he was wrong.
Cops also know that other cops will lie for them.
Problem is this time the Video show it all.
They made up the Resisting Arrest Charge to cover for this a-hole.
This cop should be arrested for assault he should be fired.
I would bet that when the other cops went in they wondered WTF was wrong with this a-hole for doing something like this, but still they allowed the resisting arrest charge.
It’s a fraternity where they look out for each other.
I'm with ya Laz, if they didn't bloody up the cell, the one who cleans and polishes them would be out of a job. Her face was broken for job security.
That is the problem. I keep hearing that there are good cops but they close their eyes and keep their mouths shut.
Skokie - where the Nazis would have been an improvement.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_Party_of_America_v._Village_of_Skokie
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