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Via Jezebel: Police Assault Woman Who Called for Help; Sue News Station Who Exposes Them, in which Hope Steffey calls the police after being assaulted by her cousin, is then arrested (I bet you didn't see that coming), taken to jail, booked, then, as is common in jails not located in third world dictatorships, is forcibly stripped naked by male and female officers and left naked in a cell for six hours.

No, wait....

[Complete report at Shakesville. Note: video may be triggery for some.]

Granted, I have never been arrested and everything I know about arresting and booking comes from TV. So I had this weird moment of cognitive dissonance. Now this will sound crazy, people, but I'm not really sure this is okay behavior. I mean, I know, totally not law enforcement, what do I know?

Well. Here's what I'm pretty sure of. A woman is arrested for reporting her own assault, the cop-cam video mysteriously truncated, she is booked, taken to a cell, strip searched by male and female officers, then convicted of--okay, wait for it, but I bet you can guess--resisting arrest and disorderly conduct....

Do you think--this is just like, totally out there--maybe the resisting arrest and disorderly conduct are related to being stripped naked while screaming in terror? See, those of us not in the police profession call it a natural, terrified reaction to sexual assault by strangers. Then again, I have always been totally radical about bodily autonomy and the non-public property of my sexual organs, so take that as you will.

I really want to make a comment on that. Then I watch the video and forget to breathe.

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This is horrific on all levels and I can't even fathom how one goes legitimately from being called to an assault case to arresting the victim. I assume the assaulting cousin was male?

That said, this is actually what struck me most: The sheriff's office contends that deputies removed Steffey's clothing as a suicide precaution on the orders of a psychologist after she made a statement to a nurse indicating that she might harm herself.

This is so much bullshit. I'm thinking if it's true, the psychologist himself (and you better believe it's a guy) should be stripped of his right to ever call himself that again. I was going to say there were rare instances where stripping someone down to prevent suicide might be necessary, but I tried to come up with a single one that couldn't have been handled differently and I'm drawing a blank. There are always other options, the first one being actually talking to the person. She was clearly in a state to communicate if she was saying these things to a nurse, and clearly not violent or out of her mind at the time.

I just can't figure out how any of this makes sense to the people involved, how they can justify this.

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