We had no doubt in our minds that Florida would have no problem vying with an Ohio Jail as an abuser of Human Rights and Dignity. Consider the following:Deputy dumps paralyzed man out of wheelchair. Traffic violator says he assumes deputy did not believe he’s unable to stand.
By Mike Celizic
TODAYShow.com contributor
updated 11:15 a.m. ET, Wed., Feb. 13, 2008
It’s hard to shock people in this modern wired world, but even the chief deputy of the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s office in Florida found the security camera video of a jailer dumping a paralyzed man out of his wheelchair appalling.
“It can happen to anybody at any time,” the man in the wheelchair, Brian Sterner, warned TODAY co-host Meredith Vieira on Wednesday in New York. “Hopefully, that’s what will come out of this, that this negative way of dealing with life and people will change.”
The incident, captured on surveillance video and viewed by thousands on the Internet, occurred on Jan. 29 when Sterner was being booked in the county jail on a warrant for a traffic violation.Read the rest and watch the video (if you can stomach it) here.
Then, THEN GET FREAKING ANGRY!!! HOW IN THE HELL CAN WE CONDEMN PEOPLE IN OTHER COUNTRIES WHEN WE TREAT OUR OWN CITIZENS THIS WAY!!!!
Bikers need to be hollering about this stuff the LOUDEST. How can we advocate for "BIKERS" rights and remain silent over the abuses of power over the powerless like Mr. Sterner and Hope Steffy???
Now if you will excuse me I need to tape a few 9 volt batteries together, go outside and punch out a tree.Add to Technorati Favorites
UPDATE:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgmyQvB3XSQ
Ok heres a video you won't see on the news.
Heres the cops taking Steffey to the cell to strip her naked.
The quality of the video is pretty bad. It will seem to 'skip' frames for quite a while in some places, but then take a bunch in a row at other times. Why it does this, I don't know.
All the cameras at the sheriff's dept seem to be in bad shape and "malfunction" right at critical moments.
I had to cut this video in half, it was 20 minutes long, from the time they took her in to the time they left the hall in front of her cell. So I cut off the front of it when they took her in.
Heres a link to the whole thing that should be good for a while:
http://rapidshare.com/files/232400098/Production_Done.wmv
WHY does it take 20 minutes outside the hall to show a "suicide prevention" that only took 4 min?
The building camera, seems to skip a lot of frames, so you'd think it would be a shorter video.
But as you can see after they have closed up the cell after assaulting her, they all stand around and have a good laugh, so this will add some more time to the video.
As you can see from the video the big dufass in the white shirt, he stays at the door to the cell looking in all the time Steffey was being assaulted, and then he stays back around her cell afterwards, looking in....GEE, I wonder WHY?
Then afterwards he's joined by another officer who didn't get a chance to help strip Steffey and he starts walking down to have a look too.
WHY DON'T THEY JUST SELL TICKETS?!?!?!?
BUT THEN the camera seems to malfunction, and the next thing you see is a empty hall.
WOW, .....MORE "missing" video from Stark County Sheriff's Dept.
Support Hope Steffey and demand justice:
Governor Strickland
(614) 466-3555, Fax: (614) 466-9354
http://www.governor.ohio.gov/Contact/tabid/153/Default.aspx
Senator Voinovich
(800) 205-6446, Fax: (216) 522-7097
http://voinovich.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.ContactForm
Senator Brown
(202) 224-2315, Fax: (202) 228-6321
http://brown.senate.gov/contact/
Congressman Boccieri
(330) 489-4414, Fax: (330) 489-4448
http://boccieri.house.gov/contact/index.shtml
U.S. Attorney General Holder, (202) 353-1555
http://www.usdoj.gov/contact-us.html
Ohio Attorney General Cordray, (877) 244-6446
http://www.ag4ohio.gov/Public/details.aspx?s=222
Stark County Sheriff, (330) 430-3800, strkshrf@raex.com
http://www.sheriff.co.stark.oh.us
This is the BCI report that Agent Christy S. Palmer sent to John D. Ferrero, Prosecuting Attorney Stark County Ohio.
ReplyDeleteDated April 16, 2008 BCI Case #: SI-76-08-14-0147
This is part of page 3
http://s2.photobucket.com/albums/y39/Zemo999/?action=view¤t=BCI-Report.jpg
Sheriff Swanson has ALWAYS maintained that Steffey was ASKED & REFUSED to remove her cloths.
But here’s the BCI’s OWN REPORT that PROVES this is a LIE!
And then they try to explain away their first lie with another lie, about why it was done this way without asking Steffey to do it voluntarily.
They are trying to say that Steffey was resisting enough that EIGHT people (5 women, 3 men) couldn't take the chance of ASKING her to remove her cloths, or EVEN TELL HER WHAT WAS GOING ON!!!
What a crock!!
I did NOT see any resisting in the video, I saw eight cops parading her to the cell, with her in cuffs.
In fact EVERY video I have seen she is in cuffs!
And the ONLY times I have seen her react to the cops is after they have assaulted her or in the process of stripping her naked.
But apparently catching the sheriff's dept in a lie isn't a big deal to our "independent" BCI investigator, Christy Palmer, who seems ready to accept ANY excuse the sheriff's dept wants to use.
The report also goes on to say that they lowered Steffey in a slow controlled manner to the floor. Except that Steffey says she was thrown to the floor.
She also told her husband in a phone call that she thought the cops had broken her nose.
And she was treated by the nurse for the injury.
And in page 4 of this report Christy Palmer even states that Steffey reported that her nose was making "crunching noises".
So I guess this is proof of a second LIE! (Or third)
And still Christy Palmer, the "independent investigator" doesn’t think twice about accepting the word of the cops over the VICTIMS in spite of proof.
BTW, Christy also references a video that she says “proves that she was lowered in a slow controlled manner to the floor”. As far as I know, THIS would have to be on the 'non-existent' beginning of the strip video.
On May 5th when I asked about the "missing" video, I was told it would soon be released.
Now here again it looks as though it’s referenced...even though they NOW claim it does not exist.
Interesting. (I have filed a request for this video.)
Its no wonder the grand jury found that the cop’s actions didn't rise to the level of "criminal culpability". How could they with the BCI investigator spellchecking the sheriff’s own reports and passing them on as FACT.
This isn’t so much an investigation report as it is a smear campaign against Hope Steffey.
The cops can polish this turd as much as want, this STILL STINKS!
BTW I don't know why they bothered to black out the names of Nurse Coren Lennon and the jail psychologist Thomas Anuszkiewicz, aren't they PROUD of the work they do?