Woman Sues After Being Forcibly Stripped by Male PoliceIt's illegal for opposite sex officers to conduct the strip search, per Illinois law, so what the two male officers did was out of bounds. Holmes said that she was actually afraid that they would come back in and rape her. Holmes's lawyer is calling the officers' actions "a crime."
The police reports claims that officers strip searched Holmes because she was resisting arrest. But resisting arrest is not legal grounds for a strip search, according to DePaul criminal law professor Len Cavise.
I think it's pretty clear that this search was not legal under state law, and that this woman is going to take the department to the cleaners.
Hope she gets a big fat settlement.
These officers should be fired, and she should be compensated accordingly.
When this happens to their wife mother and sister?When will you people start to understand that we are the subjects of the government, not its employers?
that would be okSeriously. How many of you would be up in arms if she was an overweight african american woman?
The Police broke the law, by the looks of it conducting the strip search.
From a personal standpoint it looksthey also used excessive force. The video was cut at the point of the police officers taking her down, so it would be premature to say that as a certainty
When will you people start to understand that we are the subjects of the government, not its employers?
yer right the "it can't happen here" crowd are full of it. It already has...This is only going to get worse as they get more involved in our lives...
Seriously. How many of you would be up in arms if she was an overweight african american woman?
Oh my god, the man handled a blond cutie that was drunk, driving and beligerant.
I'm always skeptical when the video cuts out just before some pertinent information.
Seriously. How many of you would be up in arms if she was an overweight african american woman?
Oh my god, the man handled a blond cutie that was drunk, driving and beligerant.
Hope she gets a big fat settlement.
Seriously. How many of you would be up in arms if she was an overweight african american woman?
Oh my god, the man handled a blond cutie that was drunk, driving and beligerant.
She was a drunk driver. That's bad enough. She should be properly prosecuted for her own crime.
But apparently being guilty of drunk driving is no excuse for her to have been treated in the manner that she was. The officers would have been within their authority to use the amount of force required to arrest her and take her into custody. They stepped far outside the bounds of that authority, and committed crimes against her which were at least as serious as the crimes for which she stands accused. They need to be held fully accountable for their crimes, just as she needs to be held for her own.
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