I emailed the County commissioners and Attorney asking why this bitc…. Deputy hasn’t been arrested.
I generally despise Nancy Grace, but I’m going to tune in tonight to watch her rip these folks some new ones. 
When I first heard this, I thought it sounded like a Reno 911 episode. I’m still having trouble believing this is true.
As someone who works with inmates day in and day out, I must choose daily to be professional, patient, and non-judgemental about why they’re in my institution. Inmates are in prison as punishment, not to be punished.
Sadly, too many other folks who work in corrections seem to fail to make the best choice regarding how they will treat other people in this setting.
Prisons and jails are tough places to be, and the environment there can all too easily dehumanize both the inmates and the people who work there.
Fuck you. I’m the OP dumbass. I never said he was faking. All I said was that it seemed strange he was in jail for five days. And it does.
I imagine that you enjoy better dealings with your charges as a result. If the inmate’s character is not in keeping with your expectations,(high or low) their behaviour will, to some degree, shift in that direction.
Wow, I guess I need to readjust my saracasm-o-meter, because to me it looked like gonzomax’s post was just dripping with the stuff.
Maybe there was a bomb that needed to be found and defused. If not found, maybe an airborne virus will be released. And maybe that virus had no cure. And kills people painfully, over the course of a week.
In this case, would it not be justified?
Who shot who in the what now? 
Uh, say what? Of course it was dripping with sarcasm. The sarcasm was employed in an attempt to make Contrapuntal’s post look stupid and/or poorly thought-out. Why wouldn’t that piss him (or her) off?
I think that’s a reference to the threads that pose outlandish hypotheticals and question whether torture would be justified in such cases.
Labrador Deceiver, that’s how I saw it.
Maybe they just wanted a paid vacation, which is exactly what they got.
Heh. I’m getting responses.
Though I imagine some might take this the wrong way, after seeing that video, one of the first thoughts was, ‘Whew, I’m relieved the brutality victim, Brian Sterner, was a white guy’.
Sorry Qadgop, I was just playing. As **Contrapuntal **realized, I was talking about a stupid-assed hypothetical in GD about when torture is justified.
That’s a paddlin’!
I’ll see if I can dig it up again, but did anyone else see the report on the woman who was forcibly strip searched? Two MALE officers were the ones holding her down, and helping take off her bra and panties, and they were the last to leave her cell. THEY WERE LAUGHING AS THEY LEFT! :mad: :mad: :mad: She was left in the cell naked, for six hours, during which time she was also denied medical attention for the cracked tooth, bulging disc and bruises she sufffered due to the assualt 911 was originally called for. Here is the video, and here is the news article. ETA: The video is NOT SAFE FOR WORK! DISTURBING! WILL RAISE YOUR BLOOD PRESSURE. ETA2: Here is a decent article/editorial that poses some questions I’d like to see those officers answer, in the case of Hope Steffey.
This is certainly an assault and/or battery I would think. Even if the guy WAS faking and turned around and whispered “Bitch, I fooled you, I’m not really paralyzed”, you still can’t dump a guy out of a chair onto the floor.
I’m sitting in a chair now, and I am completely healthy. If my wife came up behind me, grabbed the chair and dumped me on the floor, she could be arrested for that…
One can be arrested for foreplay now?
I think you should make this a seperate thread. It’s kind of lost in here with the wheelchair guy and yes, it really makes my blood boil.
Watching two lawyers debate this on MSNBC last night was amazing.
Apparently, they asked her a question. “Do you have a weapon on you?”
She replied with another question. “Do you mean right now or earlier?”
For that answere, a strip search was considered the proper choice of action.
WTF?
Also they threw her in cell, naked, and left her naked for six hours.
Speaking for the police one pundit claimed. Well, she was clearly upset and a danger. Well she is clearly upset that four people have pinned her down and are pulling off her clothes. Her ‘upset level’ clearly goes up when they start to remove her clothes. Yes, being forced to the ground and having all your clothes pulled off you against your will usually has a calming effect.
The video I saw said that:
My impression was that her “now or ever” response was about the question if she wanted to harm herself. Maybe she did think about it a long time ago, and wanted clarification if they were asking if she wanted to harm herself right now, or a long time ago.
The police are claiming they didn’t do a “strip search” per se, but that they merely removed all her clothes for her protection. :rolleyes:
I guess they’re trying to spin it as they thought maybe she’d try to hang herself with her underwear or something.