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Strip search of woman by Sheriff's Deputies called outrageous
WKYC.com ^ | 1/31/2008 | Susan Vinella

Posted on 02/04/2008 7:36:26 AM PST by VRing

CANTON -- Hope Steffey's night began with a call to police for help. It ended with her face down, completely naked and sobbing on a jail cell floor. Steffey says Stark County sheriff's deputies used excessive force and assaulted her during a strip search 15 months ago, according to a federal lawsuit.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: badcopnodonut; beserkcop; crime; donttasemebro; donutwatch; jackbootalert; police
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To: Husker24

She probably threatened suicide.
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Possibly, but she is clearly heard during the video screaming ‘why are you doing this to me?’. That doesn’t pass the suicide watch smell test for me.


21 posted on 02/04/2008 7:53:42 AM PST by dmz
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To: VRing

thugs.


22 posted on 02/04/2008 7:54:31 AM PST by ddtorquee
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To: Morgana

From what I remember of Morganna, that wouldn’t be your body part to swear by....


23 posted on 02/04/2008 7:54:54 AM PST by Hegewisch Dupa
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To: Morgana

it was a coed team holding her down and stripping her naked. IF they did a cavity search you couldn’t tell from the video. disgusting. just disgusting.


24 posted on 02/04/2008 7:55:43 AM PST by tioga (Beware: conservative with back to the wall. Proceed with extreme caution.)
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To: Morgana
They mean to tell me that there were no female deputes or jail matrons???? My big fat white Queen Latifa ass!!!!

There were female deputy's, five of them. And two male deputy's.

Regards

25 posted on 02/04/2008 7:57:14 AM PST by ARE SOLE (Agents Ramos and Campean are in prison at this very moment.. (A "Concerned Citizen".)
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To: Husker24

“She probably threatened suicide.”

That is in the video. They asked her if she thought about hurting herself and she replied “now or ever?” and and that point the cops couldn’t her clothes off fast enough. There was no smock to cover herself with though. I wonder why?


26 posted on 02/04/2008 7:57:25 AM PST by VRing (Happiness is a perfect sling bruise.)
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To: dmz
Possibly, but she is clearly heard during the video screaming ‘why are you doing this to me?’

They asked her "have you ever thought of harming yourself?"...her response...was the wrong thing. She replied "now or ever?". They interpret that as a yes and strip her down. Complete over reaction and there are males in there.

27 posted on 02/04/2008 7:57:26 AM PST by Malsua
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To: VRing

Freaking GOONS! People need to get fired big time here and get a stiff “citizens” fine, i.e. a huge civil judgement.


28 posted on 02/04/2008 7:58:23 AM PST by AmericaUnited
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To: dmz

I dont know, my internet is too slow to download the video. If she was being combative she should have been put in a restraint chair, untill she calmed down. We had drunks come into the jail all the time screaming “why are you doing this to me.”


29 posted on 02/04/2008 7:58:31 AM PST by Husker24
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To: 4yearlurker
These are the same cops that will go into neighborhoods and start loading families into flat bed trucks.

Uhhhhh......yeah. Loading families. That's it.

30 posted on 02/04/2008 7:58:50 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: VRing

I’ve never understood why anyone would call the police in the first place, except to verify an insurance claim resulting from an accident. Even then, I’m prettty leery of them. They are not our friends, anymore.


31 posted on 02/04/2008 7:59:02 AM PST by the gillman@blacklagoon.com (And close the damned borders!)
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To: al baby
I agree something else is going on

Yeah, and it's with the Sheriff's dept.

She was charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest and I suspect the resisting arrest charge was a result of her reluctance to be strip searched.

I agree with the lawyer on this. This is an example of a government agency forcing its will upon an individual and, in addition, violating its own policies in the process.

This is what all government agencies will look like if Hillary is elected.

32 posted on 02/04/2008 7:59:48 AM PST by cowboyway ("No damn man kills me and lives." -- Nathan Bedford Forrest)
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To: VRing
To protect and serve/sarc
33 posted on 02/04/2008 8:00:38 AM PST by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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To: VRing
Just seeing what the 2 videos show, it is pretty damning against the sheriff’s dept. Having male deputies assist in the strip search convicts is abhorrent.
34 posted on 02/04/2008 8:00:46 AM PST by rawhide
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To: VRing

If she doesn’t end up owning Stark County, her lawyer’s not trying.


35 posted on 02/04/2008 8:01:35 AM PST by TheLawyerFormerlyKnownAsAl
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To: r9etb

Lawyers is as lawyers do.


36 posted on 02/04/2008 8:01:58 AM PST by BenLurkin
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To: VRing

Zey ver yest doink zer yob!

Its obvious she didn’t show proper respect to their authoritay! Pigs!


37 posted on 02/04/2008 8:03:45 AM PST by American_Centurion (No, I don't trust the government to automatically do the right thing.)
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To: Husker24

I guess you would just allow a group of men and women to rip your clothes off without protest.


38 posted on 02/04/2008 8:04:04 AM PST by Politicalmom (Don't blame me. I'm writing FRed in.)
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To: VRing

So where are the cop lovers now? Defend this one.


39 posted on 02/04/2008 8:05:28 AM PST by Centurion2000 (When a population loses faith in the justice system, criminals will fight to the death more often.)
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To: r9etb
Filed under, “There is one hell of a lot more to this story than this lady’s attorney is telling us.”

Perhaps. In case you aren't aware of this though, lawyers are hired to defend and protect their clients. If it were otherwise, why in Hell would one hire a lawyer.

I've bookmarked this web site because I'm interested in seeing the follow-on of this episode. I think that this Sherrif's Department has a serious problem on their hands. I personally think that they should shoot for bankrupting the county that owns that department. Her lawyer might want to bring in some outside help.

In that there were male officers at the nuding of this woman is particularly damning.

40 posted on 02/04/2008 8:05:28 AM PST by davisfh (Islam is a mental illness)
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