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Hater Depot
Joined: 29 Mar 2005
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 Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 3:13 pm Post subject: US sheriff strips woman, locks her in cell |
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After the police were called to help her.
http://www.wkyc.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=82447
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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.
Stark County Sheriff Timothy Swanson denies the allegation.
Steffey's attorney says her clothes, including her underwear and bra, were stripped from her body by at least seven male and female sheriff's deputies and jail workers. She lay face down in handcuffs at the time.
"Hope begged and pleaded with her ... assailants to stop," the lawsuit says. "There was no forcible penetration but Hope felt as if she was being raped."
The sheriff denies this was a strip search.
The sheriff's policy requires officers conducting any strip search to be of the same sex.
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Steffey's ordeal with the Stark County Sheriff's deputies began after her cousin called police for help.
In a 9-1-1 call, her cousin said Steffey had been assaulted by another cousin.
When a Stark County deputy arrived, he asked for Steffey's driver's license. She accidentally turned over her dead sister's license, which she said she keeps in her wallet as a memento, the lawsuit says.
The deputy refused to give the license back and told Steffey to "shut up about your dead sister," according to her attorney. |
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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 3:31 pm Post subject: |
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| There was no forcible penetration but Hope felt as if she was being raped. |
Bring in the string quartet...
We are dealing with criminal justice and law. Let us remain within the confines of the law and its definitions, please. Also, this reads like a yellow-journalist working with Hope's attorneys' press-releases. What are the police saying about this incident and its context?
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| ...the details would come out in court. |
Sure. That is why her atty has already begun waging a public-relations war in the press. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 3:39 pm Post subject: |
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Do I have this straight?
Cousin A calls the cops because Cousin B assaulted Steffey, but when the cops come, they arrest Steffey the victim and strip search her.
There is more to the story than the posted article tells. |
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Big_Bird
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: Sometimes here sometimes there...
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| Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 3:52 pm Post subject: |
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| Gopher wrote: |
| Bring in the string quartet... |
Well, we know never to come to you, Mr G, if ever we need sympathy...  |
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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 4:01 pm Post subject: |
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| Well, we know never to come to you, Mr G, if ever we need sympathy... |
Oh but my sympathy can certainly be won and had. Just tell me the facts, just the facts, 'mam, all of the facts, without the excessive qualifiers that tend to appear in such stories as this ("Hope begged and pleaded...she felt as if she were being raped...sobbing on a jail cell floor..."), and, most importantly, don't play me, baby...
And after all of that, if X, Y, or Z has assaulted you or otherwise violated your rights, I can easily side with you -- not based on improvised, self-righteous assertions about what is morally right and wrong, but based on existing law. |
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arjuna
Joined: 31 Mar 2007
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arjuna
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caniff
Joined: 03 Feb 2004
Location: All over the map
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| Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 10:54 am Post subject: |
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As an able-bodied American male (i.e. no problem walking down a sidewalk), I must admit I consider too many cops back home to be complete a-holes. I'll take Korean incompetence over American abuse any day of the week (a gamble, I know).
I miss the States sometimes, but the attitudes of many of the cops there is something that I'll never miss. I'm not a criminal by any means, but I've had enough unfortunate run-ins that I consider many of them to be power-hungry, angry meatheads.
I remember I said to my parents when I was a teenager: "The people who are really motivated to be police are the exact same people that shouldn't be police". |
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Milwaukiedave
Joined: 02 Oct 2004
Location: Goseong
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| Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 2:26 pm Post subject: |
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Guess who's back?
Come on, anyone? Anyone?
Ok, here's a few hints:
1) She's nuts
2) She spams the boards
3) She supports Ron Paul
4) She posts conspiracy theories |
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Leslie Cheswyck
Joined: 31 May 2003
Location: University of Western Chile
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| Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 3:21 pm Post subject: |
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Shit, I'd be pissed off too if they made me drive around in that gay little thing for a patrol car. |
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Funkdafied
Joined: 04 Nov 2007
Location: In Da House
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| Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 10:58 pm Post subject: |
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| From the video that arjuna linked it looks bad. |
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Hater Depot
Joined: 29 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 12:17 am Post subject: |
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| That video reminds why I can't stand watching news in the US. It's all "be AFRAID! be AFRAID! This is going to happen to YOU and EVERYBODY YOU CARE ABOUT!!" |
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Funkdafied
Joined: 04 Nov 2007
Location: In Da House
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| Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 5:06 am Post subject: |
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| That video reminds why I can't stand watching news in the US. It's all "be AFRAID! be AFRAID! This is going to happen to YOU and EVERYBODY YOU CARE ABOUT!!" |
Well there is spin, and then there is footage. No need to spin that footage to make it worse. I don't like to see it, but only because I wish it didn't happen. In fact I think this is exactly what we need to be seeing. Sunlight is the best disinfectant, and these types of cops need to be held up to the light. Do we want this kind of person to "protect and serve" us? |
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Hater Depot
Joined: 29 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 6:00 am Post subject: |
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| I agree with you... I am the OP after all. It's just unneccessary how sensationalized the segment was. |
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cangel
Joined: 19 Jun 2003
Location: Jeonju, S. Korea
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| Having worked at most levels of law enforcement from local, to state, to federal, I'd just like to say the vast majority of the people I have worked with are great people doing a very difficult job. I really don't think most people appreciate the work environment, the stress, these people face every day. I am not justifying anyone using excessive force, and think it's repugnant. However, we don't know the full story of what went on and thus making any prejudgment is wrong. I've dealt with people going off on psycho screaming rants like the woman in the video and have had to relieve them of their belongings for numerous reasons, mostly to prevent self-harm. Anyway, again, not justifying what they did but let's wait to cast judgment. |
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