... I'm glad to see our police taking out these violent criminals... and their use of vague nuisance charges such as "disorderly conduct" and "resisting arrest" are not downright heroic. After all, aren't we all supposed to be criminals in their eyes, guilty of SOMETHING until proven innocent.

My roommate is now being investigated by the pigs for numerous home invasions (which I know he did not do. He simply wouldn't have had time with his work schedule through the holidays and he is home with his girlfriend when he isn't at home) because one house was robbed and the suspect was latino and he just happened to be walking to the store around 5:30 am and would be leaving for work at 6... oh, and he also had brown skin. The woman who made the complaint told them it wasn't my roommate... yet for simply being out early in the morning and being brown he is now a suspect (with ZERO additional evidence to tie him to ANY of these crimes) in a number of home invasions.

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...I would go home, buy an assault rifle and go back to the Sheriff's office and clean house! Just outrageous. The police in this country are totally out of control and need to be reigned in.

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....and you or someone you love will be next.

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In fact, the videos have already gone up on YouTube, generated tens of thousands of hits (and the phone ringing off the hook at the police station in question, not to mention city hall) in just a couple days. The video was quickly forced off of Youtube by WXAN in a "copyright complaint."


I ran across this story last week in Alex Jones' forum who provided a link directly to the local Ohio TV station's video clip.

Alex's first complaint on his Sunday show this week was that there had been a bunch of incidents like this, mostly reported on local TV stations -- and that also there'd been a spate of local TV stations doing reports on all the new sublethal toys and weapons and body armor and training they're getting from the feds, but presenting it as, basically "a good thing."

Combine this with the FBI's contracting InfraGard to protect the privatized infrastructure that the people of the US used to own -- from the people of the US.

Combine this with the language defending their use of InfraGard i.e. "when, not if" martial law is imposed.

Combine this thuggish treatment of Tracy Barker and Jamie Leigh Jones by their own Halliurton/KBR co-workers over in Iraq...and the fact that Condi Condi Condi never did Jack Shit about it. (You GO Girl, Condi! Straight to Hell!)

Compare what real violence looks like -- in this video -- to the glorified "might makes right" variety of violence in the video games and movies.

Who sold us this violence? The MSM. Who sold us this war? The MSM. Who benefits from both of these? Military Corporatist Complex who ...just so happens to own the MSM.

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She wasn't physically raped, but she was certainly mentally raped.

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I'm a white man, early forties, really kind of square looking, never been in any real trouble with the law. I've lived in some pretty scary neighborhoods and some pretty tame ones. The city police, the slum police, the posh suburban police, I've lived with them all, and I can remember exactly one time when their presence made me feel more safe. (That was in a teaming crowd of drunk people with military haircuts and I was wearing a tie dye t-shirt post 9-11, what my old kung fu teacher would have called "bad positioning.") Every other time, all I see in them is a threat. Thugs with guns and de facto immunity from prosecution.

For as long as I can remember, all the winning politicians have promised to subject us to even more of these licensed psychopaths. For as long as I can remember, that has somehow been a crowd pleaser.

In the immortal words of Ambrose Bierce, I have never seen a situation so abysmal that a policeman could not make it worse.

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Can't get a woman to give you the time of day voluntarily, so you get two women to help hold one down for you, eh Bubba?

Well, you know how these things work: Their punishment will be a nice paid vacation, a big fat pension, and the sheriff will be promoted to mayor.

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instead of handing over her own ID, she mistakenly turned over her dead sister's license, which she contends she keeps in her wallet as a memento.

Where was her own ID, if not in her wallet? Does she really keep an ID as a memento, or to use to obfuscate her own identity for criminal purposes?

Doesn't excuse her treatment, but seems kinda fishy to me.

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This sort of thing is happening in Iraq every day. Of course, Fix News doesn't report it. The only difference between the abuse of innocents in Iraq and the U.S. is a matter of scale and accountability.
At least this woman's story has come to light- though nothing may come of her bravery in standing up. How many Iraqi women have been treated much worse by U.S. military and contractors? What redress can they hope for? I'd be surprised if there's FOA access to cell-room video records in Baghdad or Basra. Is there a link between what's happening in Iraq and the explosion of police violence in the States? It's a question worth asking.
It makes me extremely grateful to be living in a country where the cops are not only approachable, they're generally well-educated and, above all, reasonable people. Australia has adopted so many aspects of American culture and society. Thank God we haven't let our values slip to these depths. Thank heavens we're getting out of Iraq.

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It starts at home. Law Enforcement MUST be law abiding or it ceases to have any moral authority. In addition, the police must realize that the citizens are those they are to protect & serve.

We can start be taking all the tasers out of the hands of law enforcement.
Jesus

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Now what are the good folks of Stark Co. going to do about this? That's what I'm wondering.

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This could easily be marketed as a porn tape. And that's no surprise. I hope she has a good trial lawyer who gets her the 7 figure award she deserves, and a criminal investigation of the real criminals here: the cops. The problem of sexual abuse by sadistic law enforcement is enormously under-reported. Putting the perpetrators in jail and smacking cities with fat money judgments and federal civil rights probes would be a good start. S

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Products of the war on terror. God bless/help America.

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They did that to a *white* woman! *is gobsmacked*

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You are being trained to fear the police and to expect from them irrational violence. So that you can be herded and remain docile and petrified like sheep.

Realise and understand, you are in a police state in which there is no law but that of the authorities’ backed by their always legitimate use of violence, and the more people that see this rubbish the more people will obey authority without question when they are told to and that is why it is out there being peddled by the media.

You are being prepared for martial law. It is coming soon. The sheep will be lead to the slaughter. Be ready.

It may help to remember the words of Alexander Solzhenitsyn :
"Don't believe them, don't fear them, don't ask anything of them."

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Just imagine how much safer we will all feel when Blackwater comes home.

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This would go unreported.

Even for "normal" folk, most tdocs (PhD or MD) do PTSD therapies that make the victim "accept" what happened to them, as if it's normal.

A woman I know just lost her job at a religious school she's a teacher with 20+ years of experience. The rich bullies running the school abused her for three years then exercised their option to not renew her contract, a defacto firing given she cannot go back to work to finish her current contract because she falls apart and cannot bring herself to drive to work, she can't even call the school or email them without falling apart. Her tdoc is telling her she "chose" this. Brilliant.

White males in every case. Being one myself, I wonder WTF is in their Diet Coke?

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She will win that lawsuit to the tune of thousands or even millions in civil damages. Six hours nude in the cell! Her civil rights were definitely violated. She did not even appear guilty of a crime, just initial miscommunication and hysteria at the scene of the incident.

Law enforcement needs the authority to enforce the law and protect the public, but that authority must always be exercised with due restraint.

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Prisoner mistreatment happens in our jails and prisons all the time. It's pretty much only when "good citizens," usually middle- or upper-class whites, are victimized that the news media act responsibly and tell us about it.

Unnecessary use of force, illegal strip searches, humiliation, beatings, rape, torture, etc., are part of law enforcement culture and occur routinely if not frequently, hidden from public view except for a "privileged" few who know about it, do nothing to stop it and oftentimes cover it up.

Police do this because it's a longstanding part of their tradition and culture, and because they can; or they put up with it out of fear for their jobs and their lives. It's part of the system--institutionalized injustice, classism, racism, gender violence, and brutality.

Prisoners seldom have recourse to video, or to being defended through a news medium doing the right thing for a change (or is it because the footage is "racy"?).

Someone leaked this video footage to the news station. This whistle-blower should be commended, rewarded, and protected from harm by the "betrayed" law enforcement officers and their "superiors."

All of the men and women involved in this outrage should be suspended and brought to justice.

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Our inhumanity has officially become institutionalized. Those of us who believe in the brotherhood of humanity must vote for it at all levels. Change comes from the top. Not little by little, but as the result of a social movement demanding it. Obama. Yes we can. Si se puede.

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is a weird place. Urban but conservative and dumb. Canton City Schools still allow that other sicko form of sanctioned sexual abuse: paddling in schools. Competent and trained police and jail employees do not explose their cities to massive tort liability just so they can get their sexual jollies under the pretense of doing their jobs.

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the problem is not a county policy that required same sex searches. there is no reason or right to do strip searches for misdemeanors. Why was this woman even being jailed?

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I don't care how dumb or conservative a community is. They are participants in a nation where we supposedly have rights, and they need to know people are watching them.

I suggest that everyone who is as physically ill and appalled by this as I am contact the county sheriff's office.

Their email address is at the bottom of their webpage:

http://www.sheriff.co.stark.oh.us/


While you're at it you can contact all of the elected officials in Stark County:

http://www.co.stark.oh.us/internet/
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How can the sherriff deny the allegations when we can see right in front of us what is happening?
Looking at his face one can see the criminal behind the piggish facade. (Sorry for the comparison...pigs...)
These people, including the sherriff, must be prosecuted, jailed, and prevented from ever working "for the public good" again.
This is so outrageous...this violence sanctioned by the government.
The bald fat heads of those cops... disgusting looking stupid people, hired mercenaries... if they could kill, they would.
No wonder this nation is falling apart.

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I wonder how many of those "police" were ex Abu Graib "veterans"?

This is what George W. Bush and Dick Chaney have brought to our country...the degeneration of our once system of justice.

I feel we are going to see and hear more of this kind of "police work" .

What amzes me is here we have evidence that is incontrovertable.

Are we to stand by and not demand impeachment of this fascist regime?

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There is NO defense for this kind of treatment....this is horrible.....the woman will never receover emotionally.
how did they get the video?

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I’m enraged and filled with hate watching that video. If they ever do that to one of my loved ones…pig payback would be my new life mission.

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They stripped her and essentially raped her. There is no difference. The cops think the public will just take this kind-of crap, but we won't. And the courts will not provide the satisfaction that must be enacted, because they are all part of the same immoral cesspool of perverted scumbags.

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Say what? She's the complainant. Since when is it a crime to hand over the wrong piece of ID when asked -- and before that, why was she asked for ID? Why weren't they pursuing the perpetrator of the assault instead of harrassing the victim in the first place?
Resisting arrest? What arrest? Why was she being arrested?

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Kathleen Hanna's comment that "it might be different if they thought that we were human" seems, sadly, yet again, to be prescient.

It would be good if this video could raise awareness of police brutality against women, in the same manner that the Rodney King video did for black men. But the right-wing would probably delve into the victim's private life and denigrate her, and I wouldn't wish that on anyone.

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LET'S DISTRIBUTE THIS VIDEO WIDELY.
I've always wanted to believe that the police were there to "to serve and protect", that may have been the old days, we now need to be afraid, be very afraid.
Although I tried to respect the police, I was always glad when they were held accountable such as in the Rodney King incident.

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Stark County Sheriff's Office
4500 Atlantic BLVD NE
Canton, Ohio 44705-4374
(330)/430-3800
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This is outrageous! I hope she gets a hundred million in damages and the pigs get there just reward; long nights with big bubba!

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If I were on the jury I would send this godforsaken county into default.Would vote to award her multi seven figures.The wayt they abused this woman looks the same as the perverts in the military abused the inmates at Gitmo.Sick mf's.Stinking pigs!

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that police station should be burnt down with cops in it

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... I am nearly speechless. I am very, very sad.

So much for leaving this sort of thing behind in the 1960s.

Harbinger of more horrors to come? Push back, push hard, push long!

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This isn't the first time I've heard such a story and I'm sure it won't be the last. Many similar incidents go on daily, (thankfully) many of them don't go that far, which usually means that the cop succeeded in intimidating the person he was exercising his "authority" over.

I've had more than one friend who was informed by the cops that they were perfectly within their rights to apprehend and hold anyone they wanted, for NO REASON WHATSOEVER, as long as they either released them or came up with a charge within 48 hours. This is habeas corpus turned on its head.

Of course, if you pick up enough guys for "looking shifty," you'll find a couple with outstanding warrants, and if you go around pretending to sell drugs, you'll always get a few morons who don't know how to spot a narc, and then the Chief of Police or the Sheriff can tell the press how 'successful' the police department's efforts are and juries won't even THINK to question the evidence the cops present until you get a Johnnie Cochran who knows EXACTLY what kind of jurors he wants, the kind who've felt less protected and served than interrogated and harrassed, and all the white people in the country wring their hands and cry "HOW COULD THEY LET OJ GO FREE?" which just means the next poor sucker to get railroaded gets to reap the backlash of a bunch of frightened "Law and Order" fans who never think to question how an unjust society can possibly expect justice from its court system.

Which is why I don't trust Hillary, BTW. When she gets "tough on crime," it won't be corrupt CEOs, prosecutors, and police she'll target. It'll be everyone who MIGHT be a criminal, which, when you think about it, could be anyone...

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"The only way for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing". We no longer live in the land of the free when any local cop can abduct your wife, strip her nude, and fondle her for hours at their corrupt pleasure, whenever they feel like it, with no consequence. Back in the 1700's a group of courageous men decided they had had enough. They took on an impossible task against the most mighty enemy that existed at the time, and did the right thing, to be free, even to death. Do we have any courageous men out there willing to do the right thing? ("When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle." -Burke)

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Animals like this understand only fear. They should be prosecuted for the dogs that they are, and executed. There is no excuse. Otherwise, the other immoral and self-absorbed pigs will strip nude your wife, or girlfriend, or mother, or daughter, and fondle them for hours, anytime they like. If this doesn't enrage you and fill you with hate, you have no soul. We all know what these scums were doing. They were having a good time, indulging their sexual fantasies by forcibly taking this women’s clothes off, stripping her naked. Men, don’t be fools or cowards. Action must be taken. Don’t believe their excuses and lies.

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This event has served to open my eyes to a reality that I have never before been aware of in my 50 years of life. The government and the police are not your friends. In fact, they are your enemy, and we do not live in a free county anymore. They will take whatever they want from you; your money, your property, and now, even your wife, mother, or daughter, if they want them for their-own sexual pleasure. Wake up folks. In the 1700's a group of courageous men realized they could no longer live under tyranny, and they rebelled. Live free or die.

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