I couldn't open the video as posted, but if this is the Stark County Ohio incident you can view it on YouTube in these two segments;
#1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1yUsYIk2EM
#2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQ6Lsqmf9yM
A man would have no (or little) reason to fear sexual assult.
I dunno... after what NYC officers allegedly did to that guy with a broomstick, I wouldn't count on men have "little" to fear.
From what I gather, they asked her if she felt like harming herself and she asked "Now? Or
Ever?" -- which is a reasonable question, especially since many young women have gone through episodes of depression while growing up. At her reply, reportedly they just ended the conversation and took her to be strip-searched.
The confusing part here, is that on one hand the Sheriff's dept. says they can strip search any prisoner, yet in this case they're also trying to claim it was
not a strip search... it was done for her own "safety". WTF? You leave someone naked for 6 hours for their own safety?
Some folks in the SO need to get reamed for this one. First, start with the "confused" arresting officer. One report says that a friend of the victim attempted to tell the deputy that the woman was the victim of the crime and he just replied "well, she's going to jail and that's the end of it." Nice. Compassionate. F'ing Knothead.
The jail folks need to be forthcoming about the sequence of events and the video evidence. Especially if they abruptly went from asking booking questions to manhandling her into a cell to remove her clothes.
Regardless of if the strip was done "for her safety" or as a standard strip-search, I want the
deputies who were on duty to articulate why circumstances were so exigent that they couldn't wait to get extra female officers. Was there some factor we're missing that said she would attempt to hurt herself or others
immediately?
Unless we're all missing some key element in this story, the deputies failed to properly communicate and used excessive force. If she has documentation of her injuries and deputies failed to provide medical attention, this could get very expensive. Of course, lawyers will turn it into a 3 year process.
Anyone remember a video from the late 70's in LE training that showed officers at a jail using heavy rubber batons on a big guy? In the video, the guy is cuffed, hands in front, standing at a booking counter (3 ft back). You can't hear what the initial officer says but suddenly a 2nd officer comes in and whacks the prisoner in the shoulder and screams "Do it now!" The prisoner shys back and says "Do what?", gets hit again and commanded "Do it now!" He says "Do what? What do you want me to do?" But for the next two minutes they wail on the guy shouting "do it now!" and the guy curls up screaming "Do what? What should I do?" He had not heard someone to tell him to take off his shoes.
(Yeah, he won big time.)