Video emerges of woman 911 caller forcefully strip searched in police custody, page 1

Here's the article on Google news

Here's the news report video

A woman called 911 in response to "some sort" of incident, the details of which are not made entirely clear by either of the above. My first impression is that there was fight between high school students. The woman being searched in the above video is the one who made the 911 call and so far as I can tell was not personally involved in the incident at all. When officers arrived she was asked for identification and mistakenly gave them the wrong drivers license. It sort of went down hill from there and she was taken into custody, and transported away from the scene. As you can see in the video, this woman is in hand cuffs and being held face down in a jail cell by seven officers as they remove all of her clothing. Stark County officials deny that this qualifies as a strip search, but claim that it was performed "for her own safety."

EDIT: I notice that the caption of the video states that this was part of "Federal Zogsters' training." Does anyone have any idea what that is? There is no mention of it anywhere in either the written or video reports.


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WOW!

If that was my wife...... well lets just say it wouldn't be all good.
Its a scary thing to hear about something like that happening in this country. I hope they sue the hell outta the PD.

This is my neck of the woods. I haven't heard of this until now. But I am completely appalled. There is definitely a pattern of the fascists getting away with crimes. I hope this couple wins this lawsuit!

Edite to add: Ok, just watched the video I'm so [snip] angered by what I just saw that my head could possibly explode!!! This is beyond an ABOMINATION! Not only should these PIGS be fired, they should be arrested, convicted and sent to prison to serve lengthy sentences. If this happened to my wife!

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Well since the site that is hosting the video is white power related (thus the blog name of white now), going out on a limb to say its zog or zionist organizational government. A zogster would be an agent of said power structure. Like a briton is a british citizen.

Now don't bash me, I was just answering a question as to what a zogster was, or taking a guess at it anyways.

www.wkyc.com...

Here's the news station's report. WKYC News. Ohio. Same info, but a news source.






[edit on 2/1/08 by kattraxx]

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You make a good point. If someone violates you or a fellow citizen, we must shout in every direction. Awareness is one of the main pillars in protecting our rights.

And our rights are important. Liberty or death important.

Youtube link to the news report for users having trouble viewing it on the WKYC news site and/or unwilling to visit the white supremacist site linked in the original post.

www.youtube.com...

I'm really saddened to see this unnecessary abuse of power and I hope the woman involved can in time get her life back to normal.

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Looks like Hope and Greg Steffey filed a Civil Rights lawsuit in October of 2007 against this. Here is the link:

Steffey et al v. Swanson et al

Not sure how to get the actual information regarding the case.

The principle defendant is Timothy A. Johnson, the Stark County Sheriff. (He is a Democrat, if that matters.) Here is his official biography.

Note that the officers are listed as "John and Jane Does" and there are 15 of them.

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Good for Hope Steffey. She get millions and the officers get jail time -- that would be justice. I am not sure what kind of defense they could possibly make, given the video.

EDIT: To link up biography and fix spelling errrrs.


[edit on 1-2-2008 by Buck Division]

That was an awful situation. The video is very disturbing.

One thing I would like to say though is that if you look at the faces of those cops, you do not see them enjoying that experience. The two males definately made a mistake going in there.

From the vid I can give a possible suggestion as to why the two males were in that room.

For an alternative veiwpoint first look at this clip

If the two females were not able to physically control the female and they have not yet determined that the female is unarmed IE a threat to other police officers or herself they would have asked for assistance.

The fault here is that there was not enough female police officers available to deal with this situation and how the first officer responding to the victim in the first place.

What made it worse was that she was the victim and not a perp....escalating her resistance to any compliance that is mandatory for safety reasons. These people have to go home to there family's too, not all cops are bad but this video is a good example of how a bad cop can drag a whole group into a worse situation.

They handled this incorrectly.

From the story I would believe that she did ask for her sisters licence back and the first cop to deal with her was a jerk about. Escalation from verbal disinterest in her handing over her sisters licence to physical hostility in the holding cell.






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