What's up with her giving the cops false ID? I really don't buy the explanation that it was carried for sentimental reasons and handed to the police by mistake. The people I've run across that hand over false ID, do so because thier true ID is linked to criminal activity or trying to keep their true ID clean.
*Bzzzzt* wrong response.
She was the
victim of an assault and was probably still shaking when the cops arrived and slightly less than focused on her own actions.
I know. Similar thing happened to me in S.F. while out to dinner one night. Was holding a friend's wallet while he dashed back to the restaurant for his credit card. Got blindsided just inside the parking garage and hit in the face twice. Thug went for one of our wives' purses and she planted a hard right jab on his kisser.
I was holding a bandage over my eye when a cop asked for ID and I fumble it ouf of the wallet. Alas, my friend's first name is also William and I'm clueless until he asks if I still live in Emeryville.
"Oh wait, that's not mine, it's his...here" and I fumble for my wallet. Now both cops get all pissy until my wife explains. They then ask my buddy and his wife. Essentially the cops shrug it off with a postcard report. But before they leave the younger of the two cops tells me that if it were up to him, I'd be going to jail for giving him the wrong ID...
I told him great...next time I won't dial 911, we'll just leave the corpse on the sidewalk for him to deal with. (that didn't go over to well).
She wasn't acting "normally" by any stretch of the imagination. The cops didn't appear to be enjoying the strip and if they thought she was suicidal, a strip might be appropriate. Case in point, the woman who asphixiated herself at Sky Harbor, AZ while in custody, in cuffs.
Pray tell, what are the "normal" actions of a person who is the
victim of assault when you treat them as the suspect, cuff them and stick them in the car?
As stated before, whether the cops got "enjoyment" or not is irrelevant. Can you articulate ANY reason to justify NOT waiting until more female officers arrive to handle removal of clothing? What circumstances were so exigent that dictated she be forcibly stripped immediately?
Lastly, the women in AZ was left unattended and handcuffed with her hands behind her. She died trying to get the cuffs in front of her (the official story said). There were obviously plenty of available people to strip the woman in this case...why couldn't someone stand watch over her until additional female deputies were summoned?