Posted on 08/10/2012 7:08:35 PM PDT by Albion Wilde
A Florida woman claims that police pulled her over for a minor traffic infraction, strip searched her on the side of the road, and “forcibly removed” a tampon that she was wearing....
The woman... filed a lawsuit against the Citrus County government, Sheriff Jeffrey Dawsey and six unknown officers last week seeking damages....
The policeman, the lawsuit says, then pulled her over, approached with his gun drawn and put Tarantino in handcuffs while her two small children — ages one and four — watched...
Over the next two hours, five other policemen arrived, including a female officer, and Tarantino was “frisked and strip searched twice at the side of the busy road, in plain view of passers by.” During one of these searches, the female officer “forcibly removed” the tampon...
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I wonder where her children were with her being handcuffed in the patrol car.
>To remove her tampon (as claimed) the officer would have had to remove her underware and have her naked on the side of the road. Others (including the police dash cam) would have seen this.<
Dash cams are pointed forward. Maybe they had her stand on the other side of the cars, out of the view of the cameras.
It’s dry, perfectly executed comments like yours that make me wish FreeRepublic had upvotes.
First we must TENDERIZE the pup by sticking him a cage on the roof of a station-wagon and driving that 500 miles. The bipartisan touch makes ‘em sooooo delicious
Traffic violation treated like a bank robbery, it’s all Florida has left after the Casey Anthony fiasco.
Officers can issue false statements too. I’m not going to say that’s what is happening here. Once again, we’ll have to wait.
Some people get very angry when they come into contact with officers. This woman may have gone postal on the scene. She was sited for violation of restrictions and rolling through a stop sign. The violation portion is probably what really rubbed her the wrong way. A judge is going to angry over that. She knows it. The cops wouldn’t let her slide. She’s going to get even.
I don’t know if things are worse than they were years ago, but I was a juror earlier this year, and the defendant was lying his ass off. The other jurors bought off on it. His story was very outlandish. It worked.
That sounds like what may be happening here.
She has no recourse on the charges, so she makes as outlandish a story as she can, hoping her portion of the charges will be dismissed.
If she was resistant and abusive during the traffic stop, a supervisor would probably be called in. A female office may have been too, to lend a modicum of female perspective to the situation, a defensive mechanism.
I won’t be surprised at all to see others at the scene.
I totally agree. This story makes me sick. I support the police in general, but holy crap, is a little common sense to much to ask? Apparently so.
No, thinking to start the balling rolling or stop it. Everything is long and drawn out. They are going for a jury trail according to the attorney. This mother will be haunted if this is her town - until it comes to trail.
Okay, I appreciate the correction. I’m not going to defend the officers here at all though.
How long do these guys think they can continue with this type of behavior, and still have one citizen left who will stand up for them?
No problem, when I was a kid we use to ride in the back of trucks all the time. There were eight in my family and we had a car where we were stacked in all positions. I would gladly have rode in a cage on top of the roof.
Open borders and someone ‘supposedly’ rolling through a stop sign is a big deal.
LadyJane, these officers have to deal with everything imaginable. If they know this woman, what type of things she has been known to do prior to this, they may have had good reason to suspect her of hiding things in strange places.
Evidently the officers are saying that none of this took place. I would also say that if something like this were to take place, it should be conducted at the station under as delicate of circumstances as this activity would allow.
Would this be okay, as I have described? Sadly, yes.
Out in the field, I’d have to say I don’t believe so. If this woman has that sort of history at this age, there’s no telling what unfortunate situations she’s been in prior to this, and how much worse they may have been than this.
If it’s my spouse, kids, or family member she runs into, yes.
***the female officer “forcibly removed” the tampon...****
Cotton picking cop!
The policeman, the lawsuit says, then pulled her over, approached with his gun drawn and put Tarantino in handcuffs while her two small children — ages one and four — watched...
Over the next two hours, five other policemen arrived, including a female officer, and Tarantino was “frisked and strip searched twice at the side of the busy road, in plain view of passers by.” During one of these searches, the female officer “forcibly removed” the tampon...
FOR WHAT - rolling through a STOP sign? Don't you have to in order to look both ways if their in any obstruction?
Bingo. Just looks mortified. Can you imagine how helpless she must have felt to have government thugs strip her and remove a private hygiene item. That is not supposed to happen to nice people in America. It didn’t used to happen.
The war on drugs is a big reason the police are becoming militarized and we are racing toward a police state. To the cops, she was hiding a kilo of coke in her snatch, since to police, all people are guilty until proven innocent.
I don’t see how we stop the coming police state. I really don’t.
What do you mean by “coming” police state?
I have trouble believing this one is true.
I was with the state police a long, long time ago.
We had a ho’ with a .32 auto up her neither regions.
It pays to check. LOL>
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