I'm just at a loss for words... Every american needs to watch this.
http://www.wkyc.com/video/player.aspx?aid=53707&sid=82447&bw=hi&cat=2
http://www.wkyc.com/video/player.aspx?aid=53707&sid=82447&bw=hi&cat=2
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It didn't work here. I happily got rid of IE years ago - buggy bloatware.
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I can't believe you posted a link to a White Supremacist website on this forum. Not helping dude.
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All that over disturbing the peace. What would you call what the police were doing. I hope she hammers these thugs. I know some very good police officers. These are not them!
Outrage! 
They could have handled this much better.
But.... I would like to get the whole story, and the whole video. They were taping this for a reason, there must have been things going on before this, that's not some reporter taping this.
I would also like to know where this happened, and names of ALL the officials involved. We need fax numbers, addresses and e-mail, including the governor etc...
I hope the people there are considering recalling any connected officials. Just go door to door, show people the video on a portable player, and get signatures, no problem, instant recall.
They could have handled this much better.But.... I would like to get the whole story, and the whole video. They were taping this for a reason, there must have been things going on before this, that's not some reporter taping this.
I would also like to know where this happened, and names of ALL the officials involved. We need fax numbers, addresses and e-mail, including the governor etc...
I hope the people there are considering recalling any connected officials. Just go door to door, show people the video on a portable player, and get signatures, no problem, instant recall.
She was the victim of an assault so her cousin called 911. They asked her for id and she gave them the wrong one so they took her in. The id she gave them, and she explained it at the time, was her dead sister's DL that she carried around as a keepsake of sorts.
More outrage "The sheriff denies this was a strip search."
WTF??????????????????????
More info: http://www.wkyc.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=82447
"Stark County Sheriff Timothy Swanson denies the allegation."
Google says:
Canton, Ohio
http://www.sheriff.co.stark.oh.us/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stark_County,_Ohio
Ted Strickland, Governor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Strickland
http://www.ohio.gov/
"The sheriff denies this was a strip search."WTF??????????????????????
More info: http://www.wkyc.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=82447
"Stark County Sheriff Timothy Swanson denies the allegation."
Google says:
Canton, Ohio
http://www.sheriff.co.stark.oh.us/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stark_County,_Ohio
Ted Strickland, Governor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Strickland
http://www.ohio.gov/
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oops.. I too just posted this. This makes me sick.
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http://www.cantonrep.com/index.php?ID=397806&Category=9&subCategoryID=0
Sheriff faces TV report
Lawsuit over arrest has tape of deputies stripping woman
Saturday, February 2, 2008
Repository staff report
CANTON Stark County Sheriff Tim Swanson issued a statement Friday related to a woman's 2006 arrest and a videotape showing her being stripped naked at the Stark County Jail by male and female deputies.
The arrest of Hope Steffey of Salem was featured in a Channel 3 news report Thursday night.
Steffey has a pending federal lawsuit against Swanson's department, saying she was assaulted by deputies, denied medical help and was the victim of excessive force during her arrest on Oct. 20-21, 2006.
The complaint is pending in U.S. District Court before Judge David D. Dowd Jr.
Swanson's statement said his office investigated an incident involving Steffey. She was charged and later convicted in Alliance Municipal Court of disorderly conduct and resisting arrest, he said.
"We have answered all inquiries by the attorneys and we are prepared to proceed in a court of law, NOT IN THE MEDIA," Swanson said in a statement.
He declined to comment further, citing the pending allegations.
Steffey's attorneys, David B. Malik of Chesterland and Dennis J. Nierman of Cleveland, could not be reached Friday for comment.
Channel 3's report prompted numerous calls Friday to the Stark County commissioners' office. Commissioner Todd Bosley declined to comment.
According to Steffey's lawsuit originally filed in October and since amended:
Steffey, 47, was assaulted by a cousin on Oct. 20, 2006, on Weimer Drive SE, prompting a 911 call. A sheriff's deputy arrived and Steffey mistakenly gave the deputy her deceased sister's driver's license, not her own. The deputy refused to hand it back when she noticed the mistake and she pleaded for its return, the lawsuit said.
The deputy did not get medical help for Steffey's assault wounds and instead assaulted Steffey, the lawsuit said. The deputy slammed her into his cruiser, cracking one of her teeth, and later slammed her into the ground, causing cuts and bruises, the lawsuit said.
Later at the jail, Steffey said she was asked, "Have you thought about harming yourself?" She responded, "Now or ever?"
She said she was immediately stripped by male and female guards without ever being asked to voluntarily remove her clothing.
"The force used by these defendants was unreasonable and excessive. The force used was designed to inflict pain and to punish," the lawsuit said.
She was later left in a cell naked for six hours. "In order to keep warm and regain her dignity, Hope wrapped herself in toilet paper to keep (the unnamed guards) or anyone else from seeing her naked. This situation was designed to humiliate, inflict emotional pain and to punish."
Steffey was given a suspended jail term for her convictions.
DENIALS
In a written response to the lawsuit, Swanson and his deputies deny wrongdoing and maintain the arresting deputy, Richard T. Gurlea Jr., and others at the jail are allowed to use reasonable force to make an arrest and protect prisoners in their custody.
The department does not deny that Steffey was stripped of her clothes and left naked in a cell for six hours.
The defense has asked a judge to dismiss the claims.
Dowd has set a status conference for May.
Sheriff faces TV report
Lawsuit over arrest has tape of deputies stripping woman
Saturday, February 2, 2008
Repository staff report
CANTON Stark County Sheriff Tim Swanson issued a statement Friday related to a woman's 2006 arrest and a videotape showing her being stripped naked at the Stark County Jail by male and female deputies.
The arrest of Hope Steffey of Salem was featured in a Channel 3 news report Thursday night.
Steffey has a pending federal lawsuit against Swanson's department, saying she was assaulted by deputies, denied medical help and was the victim of excessive force during her arrest on Oct. 20-21, 2006.
The complaint is pending in U.S. District Court before Judge David D. Dowd Jr.
Swanson's statement said his office investigated an incident involving Steffey. She was charged and later convicted in Alliance Municipal Court of disorderly conduct and resisting arrest, he said.
"We have answered all inquiries by the attorneys and we are prepared to proceed in a court of law, NOT IN THE MEDIA," Swanson said in a statement.
He declined to comment further, citing the pending allegations.
Steffey's attorneys, David B. Malik of Chesterland and Dennis J. Nierman of Cleveland, could not be reached Friday for comment.
Channel 3's report prompted numerous calls Friday to the Stark County commissioners' office. Commissioner Todd Bosley declined to comment.
According to Steffey's lawsuit originally filed in October and since amended:
Steffey, 47, was assaulted by a cousin on Oct. 20, 2006, on Weimer Drive SE, prompting a 911 call. A sheriff's deputy arrived and Steffey mistakenly gave the deputy her deceased sister's driver's license, not her own. The deputy refused to hand it back when she noticed the mistake and she pleaded for its return, the lawsuit said.
The deputy did not get medical help for Steffey's assault wounds and instead assaulted Steffey, the lawsuit said. The deputy slammed her into his cruiser, cracking one of her teeth, and later slammed her into the ground, causing cuts and bruises, the lawsuit said.
Later at the jail, Steffey said she was asked, "Have you thought about harming yourself?" She responded, "Now or ever?"
She said she was immediately stripped by male and female guards without ever being asked to voluntarily remove her clothing.
"The force used by these defendants was unreasonable and excessive. The force used was designed to inflict pain and to punish," the lawsuit said.
She was later left in a cell naked for six hours. "In order to keep warm and regain her dignity, Hope wrapped herself in toilet paper to keep (the unnamed guards) or anyone else from seeing her naked. This situation was designed to humiliate, inflict emotional pain and to punish."
Steffey was given a suspended jail term for her convictions.
DENIALS
In a written response to the lawsuit, Swanson and his deputies deny wrongdoing and maintain the arresting deputy, Richard T. Gurlea Jr., and others at the jail are allowed to use reasonable force to make an arrest and protect prisoners in their custody.
The department does not deny that Steffey was stripped of her clothes and left naked in a cell for six hours.
The defense has asked a judge to dismiss the claims.
Dowd has set a status conference for May.
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http://www.salemnews.net/news/articles.asp?articleID=9849
Couple sues over Stark County incident
By LARRY SHIELDS, Salem News staff writer
SALEM — A Salem couple cited Stark County commissioners, the sheriff, a deputy and 15 unnamed John and Jane Does in a federal lawsuit claiming violations of their rights under the Fourth, Eighth and 14th Amendments to the Constitution.
Hope and Greg Steffey filed the action last October in the United States District Court in Cleveland.
Greg Steffey is the athletic director at Salem High School.
According to court documents, Hope Steffey claims assault, battery, unreasonable seizure and deliberate indifference by failing to provide adequate medical care, while both claim damage from “unreasonable governmental actions by the defendants.”
Named as defendants are Sheriff Timothy A. Swanson, the three commissioners, Deputy Richard T. Gurlea, along with John and Jane Does numbers one through 15.
The Stark County Sheriff reportedly denied the allegations.
The narrative of court documents said that on Oct. 20, 2006 Hope Steffey was allegedly assaulted by another woman on Weimer Dr. S.E. and Gurlea responded, questioned Steffey and asked for identification and she “mistakenly” produced the driver’s license of her dead sister, which she kept as a personal memento.
She immediately recognized her mistake and asked for it back, but Gurlea allegedly refused.
Documents say she “begged” for the return of her license but it wasn’t returned.
The deputy then ran a computer check of the right license and Steffey’s cousin noticed a bald spot on her head from the assault.
The cousin “reminded” the deputy that Steffey was the victim while advising Steffey of the hair loss which made her visibly upset.
The documents alleged Gurlea failed to call for medical assistance despite knowledge Steffey was injured.
Gurlea the, documents allege, warned Steffey to calm down and Steffey replied she was upset and could exercise her freedom of speech and her cousin again attempted to remind the deputy that Steffey was the victim and she had been knocked unconscious by the assailant.
The deputy allegedly refused to acknowledge her injuries.
Court documents said that after searching Steffey’s car, he turned to the two and questioned the cousin when Steffey asked for her sister’s license back.
Gurlea allegedly turned angrily and responded “shut up about your dead sister.”
Steffey pointed her finger at her sister’s license in the deputy’s pocket and said, “she was here, she was someone” and Gurlea allegedly, suddenly exploded into a rage and allegedly slammed her face into his cruiser breaking a tooth, and pinning her against the cruiser, allegedly saying, “are you going to stop?”
The documents allege Gurlea then threw her to the ground causing cuts and bruises and with the weight of his body on her she could not breathe.
Steffey was then handcuffed and told to sit in the cruiser.
At the county jail, court documents allege she was knocked to the ground with male deputies/guard/staff present.
She was questioned and allegedly strip searched without authorization, pursuant to law and policy.
Steffey was allegedly held to the ground and stripped completely naked and left inside the jail cell for six hours without a blanket and “in order to try to keep warm, and regain dignity” she “wrapped herself in toilet paper to prevent the Sheriff’s deputies/guards/staff from seeing her naked.”
The documents allege she was not permitted access to a telephone; was not “booked” for six hours; didn’t receive “reasonable” medical attention for six over hours; repeatedly called for help; went without clothing; spent the entire night in jail naked; and was “eventually” advised by a guard she was charged with resisting and disorderly conduct.
The documents allege she was physically and emotionally brutalized while Gurlea and the John and Jane Does “sought charges against” her to cover up their “unreasonable acts and omissions.”
Greg Steffey claims to have lost the love, society, affection and consortium of his wife as a direct result of the actions and inactions of the defendants in one of the six claims for relief.
The 16-page complaint notes in the fifth claim for relief that the sheriff produced thousands of pages of requested records, but “specifically failed to produce the videotape of the strip search.”
It added, “The available public records indicate the videotape camera that would have captured the incident was functioning.”
Since the October filing, Cleveland television Channel 3 WKYC obtained and posted a video clip of the strip search at: http://www.wkyc.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=82447
The Cleveland station featured the incident on its Thursday night news program and also was to air a second part Friday night.
The couple demands a trial by jury with damages for medical care, incurred bills and future expenses, while demanding judgment in an amount in excess of the courts jurisdictional minimum; punitive damages to be determined at trial; equitable relief; attorney’s fees, costs of action and other associate costs; and any and all other relief the court deem equitable, necessary and just.
Larry Shields can be reached at [email protected]
Couple sues over Stark County incident
By LARRY SHIELDS, Salem News staff writer
SALEM — A Salem couple cited Stark County commissioners, the sheriff, a deputy and 15 unnamed John and Jane Does in a federal lawsuit claiming violations of their rights under the Fourth, Eighth and 14th Amendments to the Constitution.
Hope and Greg Steffey filed the action last October in the United States District Court in Cleveland.
Greg Steffey is the athletic director at Salem High School.
According to court documents, Hope Steffey claims assault, battery, unreasonable seizure and deliberate indifference by failing to provide adequate medical care, while both claim damage from “unreasonable governmental actions by the defendants.”
Named as defendants are Sheriff Timothy A. Swanson, the three commissioners, Deputy Richard T. Gurlea, along with John and Jane Does numbers one through 15.
The Stark County Sheriff reportedly denied the allegations.
The narrative of court documents said that on Oct. 20, 2006 Hope Steffey was allegedly assaulted by another woman on Weimer Dr. S.E. and Gurlea responded, questioned Steffey and asked for identification and she “mistakenly” produced the driver’s license of her dead sister, which she kept as a personal memento.
She immediately recognized her mistake and asked for it back, but Gurlea allegedly refused.
Documents say she “begged” for the return of her license but it wasn’t returned.
The deputy then ran a computer check of the right license and Steffey’s cousin noticed a bald spot on her head from the assault.
The cousin “reminded” the deputy that Steffey was the victim while advising Steffey of the hair loss which made her visibly upset.
The documents alleged Gurlea failed to call for medical assistance despite knowledge Steffey was injured.
Gurlea the, documents allege, warned Steffey to calm down and Steffey replied she was upset and could exercise her freedom of speech and her cousin again attempted to remind the deputy that Steffey was the victim and she had been knocked unconscious by the assailant.
The deputy allegedly refused to acknowledge her injuries.
Court documents said that after searching Steffey’s car, he turned to the two and questioned the cousin when Steffey asked for her sister’s license back.
Gurlea allegedly turned angrily and responded “shut up about your dead sister.”
Steffey pointed her finger at her sister’s license in the deputy’s pocket and said, “she was here, she was someone” and Gurlea allegedly, suddenly exploded into a rage and allegedly slammed her face into his cruiser breaking a tooth, and pinning her against the cruiser, allegedly saying, “are you going to stop?”
The documents allege Gurlea then threw her to the ground causing cuts and bruises and with the weight of his body on her she could not breathe.
Steffey was then handcuffed and told to sit in the cruiser.
At the county jail, court documents allege she was knocked to the ground with male deputies/guard/staff present.
She was questioned and allegedly strip searched without authorization, pursuant to law and policy.
Steffey was allegedly held to the ground and stripped completely naked and left inside the jail cell for six hours without a blanket and “in order to try to keep warm, and regain dignity” she “wrapped herself in toilet paper to prevent the Sheriff’s deputies/guards/staff from seeing her naked.”
The documents allege she was not permitted access to a telephone; was not “booked” for six hours; didn’t receive “reasonable” medical attention for six over hours; repeatedly called for help; went without clothing; spent the entire night in jail naked; and was “eventually” advised by a guard she was charged with resisting and disorderly conduct.
The documents allege she was physically and emotionally brutalized while Gurlea and the John and Jane Does “sought charges against” her to cover up their “unreasonable acts and omissions.”
Greg Steffey claims to have lost the love, society, affection and consortium of his wife as a direct result of the actions and inactions of the defendants in one of the six claims for relief.
The 16-page complaint notes in the fifth claim for relief that the sheriff produced thousands of pages of requested records, but “specifically failed to produce the videotape of the strip search.”
It added, “The available public records indicate the videotape camera that would have captured the incident was functioning.”
Since the October filing, Cleveland television Channel 3 WKYC obtained and posted a video clip of the strip search at: http://www.wkyc.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=82447
The Cleveland station featured the incident on its Thursday night news program and also was to air a second part Friday night.
The couple demands a trial by jury with damages for medical care, incurred bills and future expenses, while demanding judgment in an amount in excess of the courts jurisdictional minimum; punitive damages to be determined at trial; equitable relief; attorney’s fees, costs of action and other associate costs; and any and all other relief the court deem equitable, necessary and just.
Larry Shields can be reached at [email protected]
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The sherrif said they removed her clothes for her safety. How stupid can we be that he can say something like that and not be fired immediately! How the hell can he say they removed her CLOTHES INCLUDING HER UNDERWEAR for her safety while the left her ALONE in a jail cell with concrete walls? How this can happen in this country in this century is truly beyond my comprehension and I feel rage. Every single one of those rotten cops should go to jail to experience a being stripped against your will.
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