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8. Columbus P.D. has some real right wingers in it. Vice cops were up @ 1AM to arrest Stormy Daniels
Wed Apr 21, 2021, 10:25 AM
Apr 2021

Vice Officers Fired Over Stormy Daniels’s 2018 Arrest at Ohio Strip Club

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/24/us/stormy-daniels-columbus-vice-officers.html

Two vice officers were fired on Thursday by the city of Columbus, Ohio, for their role in the wrongful arrest of the pornographic film actress Stormy Daniels at a strip club in 2018, an arrest that a lawyer for Ms. Daniels said was the result of a “conspiracy of dunces.”

The officers, Steven Rosser and Whitney Lancaster, were found to have violated police rules when they arrested Ms. Daniels on three counts of illegal sexually oriented activity and then lied to internal affairs investigators about the basis for the sting, city officials said.

The charges against Ms. Daniels were dropped within 24 hours, but not before the arrest, at Sirens Gentlemen’s Club in Columbus, drew national headlines. Ms. Daniels is best known for saying that she had an affair with Donald J. Trump before he was president.

Amid scrutiny that the arrest had been politically motivated, the city later paid $450,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by Ms. Daniels. It also disbanded the troubled vice squad after a federal corruption investigation.

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Backstory .... Daniels came back to Columbus and did 3 sold out shows.

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Columbus PD is pretty toxic [View all] themaguffin Apr 2021 OP
Bad cops have no where to hide anymore. Omnipresent Apr 2021 #1
But what do you do when it is the entire police force wnylib Apr 2021 #17
That's ok... Omnipresent Apr 2021 #21
K&R! SheltieLover Apr 2021 #2
Well, those white kids were celebrating, don't you know! Bettie Apr 2021 #3
The Casey Goodson Jr. and Andre Hill shootings were horrible, the officers must be prosecuted. sop Apr 2021 #4
Something evil in the Columbus Police Dept. Where is the community? yardwork Apr 2021 #5
Columbus P.D. has some real right wingers in it. Vice cops were up @ 1AM to arrest Stormy Daniels Botany Apr 2021 #8
I remember that. The community needs to speak up. yardwork Apr 2021 #9
Funny thing the Columbus P.D.'s had an out and proud lesbian as Chief of Police ... now retired. Botany Apr 2021 #14
They've been terrible for a long time. luvs2sing Apr 2021 #6
The cop who shot Casey Goodson Jr. called use of force "righteous release" and an "opportunity" sop Apr 2021 #15
Also, remember when they arrested Stormy Daniels? themaguffin Apr 2021 #7
+1 dalton99a Apr 2021 #10
Video of Ohio State football scrimmage riot teach1st Apr 2021 #11
It's pretty obvious... -misanthroptimist Apr 2021 #12
Well, the war on drugs was really a proxy race thing anyway themaguffin Apr 2021 #13
Right wing infiltration wryter2000 Apr 2021 #16
+1 -misanthroptimist Apr 2021 #23
Did he have a gun or not? How did he get all the way into a hospital with a gun? Maraya1969 Apr 2021 #18
"Horrific slaying" Sympthsical Apr 2021 #19
I can't understand how two cities with at least some superficial similarities... BobTheSubgenius Apr 2021 #20
😫 OMG! Extremely disturbing. Duppers Apr 2021 #22
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