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Title: Handheld police video missing in strip search case
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Raw Story
URL Source: http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Handh ... deo_missing_in_strip_0205.html
Published: Feb 5, 2008
Author: Muriel Kane
Post Date: 2008-02-05 14:21:51 by robin
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The case of an Ohio woman who was arrested for disorderly conduct and forcibly strip-searched by both male and female guards has aroused widespread comment since the release of a police video of the incident.
Hope Steffey is suing the Stark County sheriff's office over her alleged mistreatment, with the video as documentation. However, WKYC News in Cleveland reports that there may have been additional video of Steffey being abused that has been withheld by the police.
The incident began when Steffey was attacked and injured by a relative and another family member called 911. The sheriff's deputy who responded to the call was confused and began treating Steffey as the perpetrator rather than the victim. According to Steffey, he threw her against his car and then picking her up and slamming her back onto the ground.
"Oddly enough," reports WKYC, "the sheriff's dashcam video wasn't turned on while all of this was happening."
Steffey says she was roughed up again in the jail before she was stripped, and there is no video of that, either. However, jailhouse surveillance cameras show a deputy with a handheld camera filming Steffey being escorted to her cell. This raises the possibility that video from both that camera and the sheriff's dashcam do exist but have not been provided to Steffey's lawyers.
Official Stark County policy is that prisoners can only be strip-searched by deputies of the same sex. The sheriff insists that this doesn't apply because Steffey was not strip-searched but was stripped naked for her own protection.
This video is from WKYC News, broadcast February 4, 2008.
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#1. To: robin (#0)
"It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brush fires of freedom in the minds of men." -- Samuel Adams (1722-1803)‡
There's another thread on this but I think the video is the same. Glad to hear you say so, everyone was outraged the other day. I cannot imagine that she and her husband will not win a nice settlement. But how many others have not even tried?
Ron Paul for President - Join a Ron Paul Meetup group today! The Revolution will not be televised! She wasn't even allowed prison garb? there are no words...........
She had committed no crime, SHE WAS THE VICTIM OF A MINOR ASSAULT. She wrapped herself in toilet paper later; it was cold besides the embarrassment.
Ron Paul for President - Join a Ron Paul Meetup group today! The Revolution will not be televised! Yeah, PRIOR to her police call. A victim of a MAJOR assault AFTER her police call.
"It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brush fires of freedom in the minds of men." -- Samuel Adams (1722-1803)‡
When I was on the job what we feared most was people we dealt with knowing where we lived. These SOBs should be identified as sex offenders have mobs encircling their homes passing out these videos free of charge.
I would kill every damned one of them.
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition "Corporation: An entity created for the legal protection of its human parasites, whose sole purpose is profit and self-perpetuation." © IndieTx The Lesson: quit calling the cops unless it's REALLY necessary (dead body, property theft, etc.), minor domestic squabbles should be settled without LEO involvement. And DON'T call 911, they'll put your call on the evening news, use the regular land-line number. Just my .02
"There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America." - Otto von Bismarck
Good advice.
Ron Paul for President - Join a Ron Paul Meetup group today! The Revolution will not be televised! That was my husband's reaction.
#2. To: ghostdogtxn (#1)
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.-T Jefferson
#3. To: robin (#0)
#4. To: castletrash (#3)
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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.-T Jefferson
#5. To: robin (#4)
" SHE WAS THE VICTIM OF A MINOR ASSAULT"
#6. To: robin (#2)
#7. To: All (#6)
That said, these JBTs had better not count on that level of understanding from all citizenry.
#8. To: robin (#0)
"There is no 'legitimate' Corporation by virtue of it's very legal definition and purpose."
-- IndieTx
#9. To: robin (#0)
#10. To: X-15 (#9)
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.-T Jefferson
#11. To: ghostdogtxn (#1)
If that was my wife I'd be taking scalps. Literally. And they'd have to kill me to stop me.
My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles,
and the letters get in the wrong places. -- Winnie the Pooh
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