Woman sues Portland police [officers refused to let her dress before putting her in patrol car}

Oregonian ^ | 5-1-2007 | staff writer

[bedolido]

A 47-year-old Portland woman is suing two city police officers, claiming they stormed into her home and arrested her without reason two years ago.

Sherrie Carlson Sandau has filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Portland, claiming her constitutional right to due process was violated when Portland officers John A. Wood and Christopher Cass entered her home without a warrant, grabbed her and arrested her.

Sandau said she was wearing only a tank top at the time of her arrest and the officers ignored her pleas to put clothes on before she was placed in a patrol car. She was booked into a Multnomah County jail and cited for harassment and disorderly conduct. Sandau said the incident took place in July 2005 and was apparently prompted by a neighbor's calls to police complaining about Sandau's behavior.

She is seeking an unspecified amount in damages.

[NonValueAdded]

The next person to sit in that patrol car should have sued them as well.

[Grut]

That's it? No interview with the neighbors, no interview with the police, just (what looks like) a rewrite of a press release? Piss-poor reporting.

[bedolido]

this happened in 2005. This is a follow-up about her law suit.

[af_vet_1981]

A lawsuit is not enough; police officers should be prosecuted when they offend so egregiously; made an example out of for all the world to know;