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This is your police state - woman violently strip searched

by: Pam Spaulding

Mon Feb 11, 2008 at 09:30:00 AM EST


Regular readers of the Blend know that I've been following the seemingly endless violent, sadistic  Taser incidents involving law enforcement. Below is something equally heinous -- the disgusting strip search of a woman by police in Stark County, Ohio. (Raw Story):
Hope Steffey's night started with a call to police for help. It ended with her face down, naked, and sobbing on a jail cell floor. Now, the sheriff's deputies from Stark County, Ohio who allegedly used excessive force during a strip search 15 months ago face a federal lawsuit, and recently released video won't help their case.
According to the policy of the sheriff's office, strip searches conducted must be with officers of the same sex as the person arrested. In Steffey's case, both men and women ripped her pants down.
Steffey's ordeal with the Stark County sheriff's deputies began after her cousin called 9-1-1 claiming Steffey had been assaulted by another one of their cousins. When a Stark County police officer arrived, he asked to see Steffey's driver's license. But instead of handing over her own ID, she mistakenly turned over her dead sister's license, which she contends she keeps in her wallet as a memento. That's when the situation became complicated.

...Eventually, Steffey was arrested and taken to the Stark County Jail, charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. But once in custody, her attorney says seven jail workers, male and female, forcibly removed Steffey of all her clothes, including her undergarments, while she lay face down in handcuffs. Local news footage shows Steffey wailing, asking "What are you doing?!?"

"And you have to ask yourself, what was the purpose of the strip search?" said Steffey's lawyer. "What was the necessity of it? This was a disorderly conduct claim."

The lawsuit says that Steffey remained in the cell for six hours and wrapped herself in toilet paper to stay warm. During that time, she was not allowed to use a phone or seek medical assistance for injuries she accrued that night, including a cracked tooth, bulging disc, and bruises.

Hat tip to The Dark Wraith, who said:
When you're finished watching the video of the strip search, go ask your favorite candidate of "hope" and "change" and all those other lies just exactly what he or she is going to do to end this rising nightmare of an authoritarian state.

No, seriously. Don't find some reason why your choice for Heir to Empire is not responsible. He or she is. They all want to lead this country? Then let them explain precisely how they plan to lead it away from this mess.

Ask those Democrats and Republicans running for office when enough will be enough. Ask them when they plan to stop spewing their sweet little nothings. Ask them if they will vow to their very God or perhaps even to that piece of paper we call the Constitution of the United States of America to take upon themselves the enormous task of putting every monster of this spreading blackness of sovereign violence-from George W. Bush and Dick V. Cheney all the way down to the very last, badge-wearing jackboot on the beat-into prison to rot.

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That made me want to throw up.


Let me get this right
Her cousin called 911 because she was BEING ASSAULTED, and because she (justifiably upset, I imagine) handed the cops the wrong ID, SHE ended up face down and naked on the floor of the jail? I...just...need to percolate on this, and then write about it myself.

wrong in every way
a needless humiliation of a citizen.

What possible reason could there have been for this disturbing abuse of force?

As a retired correctional officer I am outraged that these very sick authorities haven't been removed from the job.   While wearing an official government uniform of authority they are in fact the government.  Shame.



Strip search
Leaving aside every other part of this story, what boggles the mind is that they had males forcibly strip her.

I would be interested to hear why they even felt the need to have her naked since assuming she was considered a suicide risk/was having a psychotic episode, a reasonable cop would initiate medical participation.

While not all the info on this is available yet, it does come off as seriously jackboot. I would hate to see the result of these cops responding to call involving some kid doing the teen angst/throwing tantrum bit. What would they do? Kill him to calm him down?


omg..poor woman
  Oh yeah... this is bad enough that she was stripped and humiliated like that.
But with MEN participating in the strip? Wrong...WRONG. SO wrong!
This is unconscionable. I'm not seeing any reasonable concern for the safety of the officers, and obviously this young woman likely could have been subdued without this kind of force and manhandling.
 I'd want some answers, big time, and the officers to explain THEIR conduct.

The next part of the newscast
amazing
It's absolutely amazing that people will do things like this but I am glad that she will get to sue them to high heaven for what they did. Her husband is right, I doubt they treat murderes like this. It seems that alot of people simply believe that they can get away with anything. When I first read this I immediately began to think of a business down here in Georgia that is being sued for strip searching some employees.

http://www.ajc.com/search/cont...


It's not just the US.
Canada has taser-happy mounties.
http://www.nowpublic.com/crime...
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/briti...

My America includes LGBT families.

Thank the Baker Act for this.
  These cops will get away with this by saying they believed she was a threat to herself.  What happened to this woman IMHO should never happen, but it does on a normal basis.  The Police are authorized to use any force they feel required to prevent a person from hurting themselves. This includes hurting the person they are trying to protect.  

 A personal experience, I had the cops called on me because my X was pissed off, she called the Police telling them I was going to shoot myself.  With no gun in my hand, just sitting in a chair in the frontyard waiting for them to arrive.  I was taken to the ground by force, Hog tied and thrown into the back of a police car and locked up in a mental hospital for 72 hours for evaluation.  

 My X was pissed because I had used the weapon earlier that day to kill a rattlesnake that had to nest beside my daughters swingset, and became aggressive towrds me. I was cleaning the gun when she called the police.  

 I had told the police why I had the gun out and even offered to show them the dead snake.  They called that resisting arrest and to the ground I went.  I attempted to sue them, but my Lawyer even said it would be hard to prove, my word against theirs.



If I make sense? it was quite by accident.


Police need to take a chill pill
They deserve to be sued - Just police throwing their weight around as usual.  

Sadly, this sort of thing happens regularly.
And this is just a short list from Google, and doesn't count the infamous McDonalds restaurant incident.

Pennsylvania, 2008 (in a prison run by a private company):
http://www.ibtimes.com/article...

Florida, 2007 (along side a road, no less):
http://www.wmbb.com/gulfcoastw...

California, 2003:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/...

Hawa'ii, 2003:
http://www.acluhawaii.org/news...

Washington State, 1999:
http://www.aclu-wa.org/detail....

And all despite the issue having been addressed decades ago, as discussed in The Right to Privacy by Ellen Alderman and Caroline Kennedy (New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1995). It is of course easier to get away with these things when people are scared of dark forces like "crime" and "terrorism." That, and of course, the old notion, "that'll never happen to me."

"More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read." -- Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest


better start checking in how your local authorities treat the mentally ill
first, this behavior is standard procedure throughout this country when dealing with a "destabilized mentally ill person" -- which is always defined by police officers.  to imagine that the police actually call in any medical authorities to determine how to proceed or to evaluate the situation is laughable.  In other situations, persons have been placed in restraint chairs -- for hours -- and many have died.

This is not unusual behavior at all.  It is what anyone can expect if one beat cop decides the person is "mentally ill" and therefore "dangerous."

and if you check it out, you will see that the procedures used by the police in question are IDENTICAL to the procedures used in hospital wards treating the mentally ill throughout this country.

Sorry to say, but this is hardly shocking to anyone who has witnessed behavior by police and medical personnel towards the mentally ill.  The difference this time is that it has been recorded.  (had she been transferred to a medical facility, likely the same treatment would have occurred, without cameras; and it would have been followed up with a very large dose of thorazine.)


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