Posted on 05/17/2014 8:14:13 PM PDT by ClaytonP
Shocking footage has emerged of an Ohio woman handcuffed and charged with resisting arrest after sheriff’s deputies pinned her down on the floor pried open her mouth to retrieve a Tylenol tablet.
Surveillance video shows Siobhan Householder, 35, of Akron, being confronted last week by a police officer after she took the prescription medication – the altercation left her injured and arrested.
Householder was in a holding area while waiting to make a court appearance when she took the medication for a tooth infection, she told the Akron Beacon-Journal.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
“...The alternative possibility for him, not knowing why the woman consumed a pill was a possible OD.
In this case, I can support the deputy.”
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I don’t support this LOW IQ deputy. You say he didn’t “throw her around or anything else”? Perhaps you didn’t view the video. If there was a video of a husband doing the exact same acts on his wife, he’d be in jail on domestic abuse charges.
Wear your chains lightly.
The irony is lost on this bunch...
Oh' horse crap
How about the JBT first politely ask to see the pill bottle she had with her...she had the bottle right there with her instead of using excessive force...?
...but she didn't even have a chance...
At what point do the police have carte' blanche to manhandle a person who voluntarily was there because of a possible (small) issue that could have been easily resolved with common decency and normal human interaction... ?
Shiny badge syndrome is the problem
Well then, the proper response would have been to fill her with lead, 17 rounds, leaving one in the chamber in case someone else decided to get stupid. We simply cannot tolerate anyone taking medication without police knowledge and permission. Part of our problem is that such tactics in most jurisdictions are limited to those incarcerated in confinement facilities. This is clearly insufficient. Any citizen, no matter where they are and no matter what they are doing, need to be subject to the complete and total control of Law Enforcement, for their safety. These people are trained, they would never abuse their authority. Get with the program.
Sure, politely ask and ho make the proper phone calls, while she overdoses and foams at the mouth.
Good call, constable. We should promote you.
The reality is that the police have to treat every person as a potential addict, because once somebody has OD’d, they may only have a few seconds to live.
The police deal with a very different crowd than you or I do, so they have to respond differently. To you or I, it’s none of our business what somebody else puts in their mouth. To the police, they may be dealing with a drug addict who is either planning to smuggle something to somebody on the inside or take some illegal substance.
Unless you deal with addicts all the time, you’re hardly in a place to judge them.
Public (government) schools.
You can't be serious...
All they had to do is look at the pill bottle label...
As management in my place of employment, a few times a year I take a alcohol/drug awareness program which teach us the signs of observable potential addiction...
You are telling me the police don't have the training or discernment to make a judgment call on whether or not a person is a potential drug addict...?
I know there are situations that are outside of the norm...
How's that boot leather taste?
Thanks for a perfect explanation of the problem. Since LEO’s deal with criminals, everyone has to be treated as if they are a criminal. To keep us all safe of course. Throw them all to the ground, beat them senseless, shoot them if they resist. Show them who’s in charge.
Much of what the police do these days is unlawful, summary actions executed without due process. Police leadership, politicians, prosecutors, and we the people have allowed and encouraged this behavior in the name of law and order. It’s time for it to stop.
Much of what the police do these days is unlawful, summary actions executed without due process. Police leadership, politicians, prosecutors, and we the people have allowed and encouraged this behavior in the name of law and order. It’s time for it to stop.
Well stated. Anyone who believes the police were in the right does not respect Liberty.
These jack-booted thugs should be in prison.
She was in a holding area waiting to make a court appearance on a warrant for failure to appear for a domestic relations case (domestic violence perhaps?). The information that she had a warrant means that she had been arrested on a prior occasion and that she was supposed to appear in court, and she failed to appear. She can hardly advance an excuse at this time that she didn't know she was in custody. It would be helpful if we knew how long she was in the holding area before she took the pill. Did she sit down and immediately start taking some medication before her property could be inventoried? Because a person in custody cannot take medication unless it is administered by someone from the jail medical staff.
An officer told her to spit it out, and she said she couldn't, meaning she couldn't because she "had already swallowed the other pills." Ok, WHAT other pills? The article doesn't say if they were antibiotic or several Tylenol with codeine. This would certainly be relevant wouldn't it?
She was taken to a local hospital and treated and released. Released to where? Was she transported to the jail? Was she released to go home? If so, what happened to the charge she showed up for court on?
Gaps.
Cops are not pharmacists. Unless it is written in straight English, even a single letter change will have a completely different chemical effect.
Of course, that is assuming what the woman had inside the bottle was the same as what was written outside the bottle.
I’m sure when your brother, sister or cousin dies in police custody when it could have been prevented, you’ll be rapturous about how their Constitutional rights were respected.
Yeah, from a complainant that wasn’t even in custody (apparently)
You want to help pay that settlement? Cause it’s the taxpayers that are getting the shaft if she gets millions. Those damn cops sure don’t have to pay.
That’s what Nautinurse guessed, in an earlier post.
VERY GOOD picture for this thread
There are gaps, you’re right. I can only go by what was on the video, along with what I know what and who police have to deal with daily.
If it had turned out that the woman had died from what she took, and there was no way for the cop to know for certain what she took, every one of the anti-police members here would have been all over the police for having not taken the proper precautions to ensure her well-being.
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