Cont: The behaviour of US police officers - part 2

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‘Night of terror’: Female inmates raped when male detainees bribed guard, lawsuit says


Female inmates at an Indiana jail were subjected to a “night of terror” when male detainees gained access to their cells, the women allege in a lawsuit.

The lawsuit was filed Friday, July 22, by eight women against Clark County Sheriff Jamey Noel and current and former Clark County Jail officers. It’s the second lawsuit filed this summer following the alleged incident, with 20 women filing suit in June, court records show.

The women claim that on Oct. 23, 2021, jail officer David Lowe gave two male detainees keys to the interior of the jail in exchange for $1,000.

That night, the two male detainees and other male inmates went into restricted areas of the jail that housed women, according to the lawsuit.

“Numerous male detainees used the keys obtained from Lowe to enter Pods 4(E) and 4(F), where they raped, assaulted, harassed, threatened and intimidated the plaintiffs in this lawsuit, and other women, for several hours, resulting in significant physical and emotional injuries,” the lawsuit filed in the United States District Court of the Southern District of Indiana says.

The men threatened to further harm the women if they pressed the emergency call button, according to the lawsuit.

The women claim in the lawsuit that no jail officers came to their aid throughout the night, despite the assaults being viewable on surveillance video.
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None of that would have happened if those women had been at home being properly subservient to their husbands, so really you have to blame both sides.
 
Darat said:
I've literally started to type my opinion three times before this and just couldn't manage it - it's something you'd only ever think would, no could happen in a crap thriller.
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When I saw the headline, I thought this must have happened in some horrible third-world ******** hell-on-earth country. Then I found out I was right.
 
This is one of the most horrifying news stories about prisons I've read.

Lowe in particular, and every single jail official that could see what was happening and did nothing, should be charged as an accessory to every individual assault that occurred.
 
tyr_13 said:
...It is difficult not to advocate for violence in this case.
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It's equally difficult, for me anyway, not to take satisfaction in the fact Sheriff Noel and his staff may soon get to experience firsthand something similar to what the 28 victims (and counting) had to endure.
 
Another one from Indiana:

Brookville, Indiana, police accused of arresting man they did not want running for office

The Brookville Police Department is under scrutiny after allegations surfaced about officers targeting a man and arresting him for rape because they did not want him in an elected position.

Franklin County Prosecutor Chris Huerkamp announced Tuesday he had dismissed the charges, adding he’s disturbed at the arrest. Huerkamp has requested that Indiana State Police investigate.

Court documents state the man wanted to run for Brookville Town Board but was known to police for being anti-law enforcement.

The man is not named in this report because he is not facing any charges.

“Keep in mind,” said Judson McMillin, the man’s attorney, “that the board is the boss of the law enforcement.”
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Stellafane said:
It's equally difficult, for me anyway, not to take satisfaction in the fact Sheriff Noel and his staff may soon get to experience firsthand something similar to what the 28 victims (and counting) had to endure.
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What makes you think that's possible? I might be missing something, but this is a civil suit and the only law enforcement charged was the one bribed. Even the civil suit won't take money from the officials who did wrong.

That's actually, specifically, why it is so difficult not to want violence, in the 'making peaceful revolution impossible makes violent revolution inevitable' kind of way. There is zero recourse anywhere near sufficient to address the injustice done by these officials and staff. The worst that will happen to all but the one who handed over the key is losing a job or an election. The system leaves no possible way to seek justice outside of extra-judicial violence.

Which is a problem all of it's own.
 
Orangeburg couple alleges in new lawsuit that police removed them from home at gunpoint

ORANGEBURG — Armed officers from two small-town police departments roused a couple from their bed and unlawfully detained them in August 2020 based on a personal vendetta, according to a pair of lawsuits filed earlier this week.

The couple’s lawyers released body- and dash-camera footage Aug. 3 that shows the trio of armed officers driving up to the Orangeburg County residence of Shane Glover, who was there with his girlfriend Codie Fuller.

Holly Hill police officers Jermaine Smith and Jacob Bolen, along with Santee police officer George Chappell, arrived at the home around 2 a.m. Aug. 2, 2020. They shouted at the couple to come outside and placed them in handcuffs while their child was asleep inside the residence, according to the suits.

The officers were operating outside their lawful jurisdiction at the time and did not have warrants, the suits allege.
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This story has it all: thuggish cops abusing their power, an utterly uselessness investigation by state police (hello again, SLED!), Cop of the Year Syndrome, and a fired cop hired by a neighboring police agency.
 
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