'THIS IS RAPE!' woman screams while allegedly forcibly catheterized in front of male cop [View all]
An Oregon woman, said to have a disability and post-traumatic stress disorder, is suing the city of Ashland and its police force after she was forced to undergo catheterization. The suit alleges that because Liese Behringer refused to provide a urine sample in front of a male officer, Behringer was stripped and forcibly catheterized in front of that officer, NBC affiliate KOBI5 reports. Behringer’s lawyers claim the hospital took the sample without consent while she shouted, “THIS IS RAPE! THIS IS RAPE!”
After the incident, Behringer was billed $1,100.24, her attorneys said in the suit. They accused state agents and law enforcement officers on 10 counts, including battery, assault, excessive force, and inflicting emotional distress, as well as conspiring to violate Behringer’s civil rights. “I will be interested to see if more people come forward to say this has happened to them now that this lawsuit’s been brought,” Joy Bertrand, one of the attorneys representing Behringer, told NBC-affiliated KOBI-TV.
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Ashland police officer Justin McCreadie stopped 62-year-old Behringer on Oct. 19, 2019, on suspicion of driving impaired, Behringer’s attorneys allege in the lawsuit. Her handicapped parking decal and oxygen regulator were visible in her vehicle at the time of the stop, the suit claims. Still, McCreadie took Behringer to the police station and demanded she submit to a breathalyzer test, which her attorneys said she tried to complete, but ultimately explained that she couldn’t due to her health conditions. McCreadie, in turn, obtained a warrant for blood and urine samples, and took Behringer to Providence Medford Medical Center, which is also named in the lawsuit.
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Behringer was then stripped in front of McCreadie, with hospital staff making no attempt to protect her privacy, attorneys said in the suit. They also said McCreadie’s warrant did not include forced catheterization, which according to the lawsuit, the hospital admitted it is “often asked to do.” Attorneys cited a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in 2017 that law enforcement’s “forceful use of a catheter is a ‘gross personal indignity’ far exceeding that involved in a simple blood test.”
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