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Showing Original Post only (View all)Civil Rights in Rochester, NY: "Blow me, you little whore" [View all]
http://davyv.blogspot.com/2013/03/rochester-ny-police-officer-tells-rape.html[font size="4"]Rochester, NY Police officer Tells Rape Victim, "Blow me you little whore" after she asks for RPD Officers' Names and Badge Numbers[/font]
Kristen rolled her window down and handed her i.d. to the officer on her side, and asked the officer, whom she described as tall, about 6' 2" with salt and pepper hair, why they had been pulled over.
The officer responded "None of your fucking business, we don't have to have a fucking reason to stop you."
"Well, to make a traffic stop you have to have a reason", Kristen said to the officer.
The officer replied "Yeah?, you smart ass little bitch, get the fuck out of the car."
Then, as Kristen went to step out, the officer grabbed her by her arm, twisting it behind her back.
At this time, Kristen told the officer that she suffered from PTSD as a result of having been raped in 2007, and that she did not feel comfortable with the officer grabbing her like that.
The officer laughed.
The second officer, then grabbed Kristen on her left side, and they both walked her over to the back of the cruiser, and slammed her head on the trunk.
"I yelled at them like what are you doing, and they told me to shut the fuck up", said Kristen.
"I have freedom of speech", Kristen said to the officers, to which one of the officers replied 'Well, your freedom of speech is about to have your freedom taken from you.'
During this entire time, Kristen had her cell phone in her hands, as her goal was to try to record what they were doing to her.
One of the officers took Kristen's phone away from her and handcuffed her.
Then, instead of calling a female officer to search Kristen, as is standard protocol, and despite her Kristen having told the officers about her PTSD as a result of being raped, both male officers conducted a pat down search of Kristen, even sticking their hands in her pockets.
"They never touched my crotch area or anything, but I felt very uncomfortable with them patting me down, and not having had a female officer search me", Kristen told me via phone.
Still not knowing why she and her boyfriend James had been pulled over, Kristen was then placed in the back of an RPD cruiser, but not before one of the officers told Kristen "I should beat the fuck out of you."
It gets worse. Read the whole thing ==> http://davyv.blogspot.com/2013/03/rochester-ny-police-officer-tells-rape.html
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Police State ......... they deserve to lose their jobs and register as sex offenders
Angry Dragon
Mar 2013
#1
I agree, those nasty pair should be taken from the "serve and protect" group, to be sure.
drynberg
Mar 2013
#25
There are rogue cops in everywhere there are police. IMO, most police are good..
Poll_Blind
Mar 2013
#10
It's not that "most cops" are good or are bad. Most are people with power & need checks.
Bucky
Mar 2013
#22
Because those supposedly good cops have to look the other way, that's why they can get away
Dustlawyer
Mar 2013
#44
There are millions of cops in America, so anecdotal evidence is utterly worthless.
Donald Ian Rankin
Mar 2013
#65
Further facts are warranted. First reports are inevitably faulty. But that said...
Bucky
Mar 2013
#24
"Where was the boyfriend while his girlfriend was getting brutalized"..Did you follow the link?
Ghost in the Machine
Mar 2013
#36
My point is that's the last we hear of him other than the fact that he was released.
randome
Mar 2013
#39
You would think that if this abuse did, in fact, occur, he would have been insulted, abused, etc.
randome
Mar 2013
#46
You know, it's possible to debate the character of police forces without name calling.
Bucky
Mar 2013
#33
i'm not arguing. I want to see the "cops can do no wrong" badge sniffer population of DU
Nanjing to Seoul
Mar 2013
#70
Never met a cop I would trust holding my place in line much less protecting me.
bamacrat
Mar 2013
#34
Any corroborating evidence? I skimread the link, and it looked entirely unsubstantiated. N.T.
Donald Ian Rankin
Mar 2013
#61