Police strip and violently assault woman in cells....in the UK

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I am astonished and ashamed that this can happen in Britain. The victim is taking action against Police....surely the Police should be prosecuting these officers?

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That's very intersting niggle thanks for clarifying that.

I was under the impression that same sex searches were mandatory, though if you get violently assaulted for asking to call your mum I dread to think what might happen if you asked not to be stripped by a male officer.

Absolutely disgusting the people who are condoning this treatment of "a young lady". Did you not think to wonder why the so called assault on the police officers was dropped after this CCTV footage was released?? The actions of innocent and hard done by police officers? Hardly. In my experience (after seeing two friends being violently asaulted in the street by police officers) the whole "assault of a police officer" thing is generally so that they can use "self-defence" as an excuse to beat the living daylights out of ANYONE they don't paticularly like the look of. Innocent young ladies too.

Also, leaving her naked in a cell, very good way to humiliate someone and leave them feeling defenceless and exposed. Nazis used to do it, I believe there are many cases of British and American soldiers doing it to Iraqi detainees.

Possibly necessary to remove clothes in some extreme cases, probably not in this one, but leaving her without so much as a blanket? Disgusting and perverse.

I'd go so far as to liken forced internal searchs (not sure if this happened in this case) to rape.

They are. But it moves on from that if the person becomes violent. You have to search them to make sure thy cannot hurt themselves in their cell or hurt others when out of it. Only in exceptional circumstances where a female prisoner becomes violent will male officers become involved. Even then, they will only restrain the person and the female officer(s) will conduct the actual search.

Forced internal searches are not allowed!

I must be utterly de-sensitised to disturbing images or something but I really didn't think it was bad.

From what I could see when they come in to talk to her and she is already naked, two of them are standing over her, one moves to get hold of her? move her? and she fights back, then the rest of them get involved restraining her.

Surely everyone KNOWS that you don't resist/fight back with the police, what did she think would happen? I can't see any overt violence (punching/kicking etc). I think the thing that is shocking about it is that she is naked. Why is she naked?

There may have been issue of self harm here.
Police can strip search to look for items that can be used to self harm ( ie razor blades - which can be hidden inside knickers, or internally - Police cannot search internally)
Clothing is also taken off as that can be used to self harm, i have seen women try to strangle themselves with their own bras.
Alternative anti rip clothing is given but is not alawys willingly put on - hence why this girl may be naked.
Yes the video looks bad, but it doesnt show everything that took place.

Where is the anti rip clothing? I couldn't see any in the clip, though may have missed it?

Sherby one woman has her knee on the side of her head and then man is actually standing on her legs!

Doesn't suprise me in the slightest. Anyone remember that woman who was knocked unconcious by a copper in a police cell, he was imprisoned a few months ago for it.

A friend of mine was arrested recently and was beaten up by the police. Was knocked unconcious by them and doesn't remember any of it. Came round with a boot mark on his face. There is CCTV footage of him been put in the police van and rather than been put in the proper cage area of the van he is put in a little bit at the rear side of the van and stuffed into this little space upside down while in handcuffs and then the door slammed shut. So was driven to the station standing on his head unable to move in an enclosed space.

nurse i thought that's what he was doing when he was bracing himself against the wall!!! really shocking. the whole clip. i have no sound on my computer so i can't hear what was said, but tbh, i don't need to.

NS - I cant see any in the clip I am just trying to expalin what should happen.

viva is your friend doing anything about it?

No not at the minute though I think he should. He's still getting charged with what he was arrested for and he's too stressed about that to think about anything else.

well, he really should. the more people that challenge thsi attitude from the police, hopefully teh sooner it will start to dissappear.

The court presumably saw the whole video and then threw the case against her out of court. If the rest of the footage showed that there were good reasons for the police actions then that wouldn't have happened.

I can't believe that they tried to prosecuted her surely they would have wanted to try and cover up their despicable behaviour.

Whatever this woman did or didn't do, there was no need for that many officers to pile in on her. This case doesn't shock me as much as it should. I'm starting to think certain cops think they are above the law themselves.

A mate of mine was caught with a few small bags containing less than an eighth of weed in each one. Ofcourse it wasn't his finest moment and yes he was breaking the law, but was there any need to slam him up against his car several times and smirk when he said he felt his ribs crack? To call the mate he was with paki scum? Abso-fucking-lutely not.

Profiterole, I'm very glad you have never seen anything like the clip! (Why don't you watch it?)

Viva - if he was restrained in such a way that he had tone on his front such as leg restraints, he cannot be put in the cage but must be on the floor of the van. Being on your front can cause positional asphyxia so cannot be left alone. When being transported in this fashion it is usual for officers to hold onto the head and body to prevent the prisoner from rolling around the van or whacking their head when going round corners.

We don't know the full story behind this clip. She may have been screaming for the last 4 hours that she was going to kill herself. She may have refused clothing. Police have a duty to search prisoners but can't force them to dress again.

But any excuse to have a go at police is always embraced. Maybe we should get rid of them and let people police themselves?

Police are brutal and shit. Nurses are bitches. Teachers are thick and bully lite kids. Working mums don't give a shit about their kids. Architects are boring. Anyone who works with computers are geeks and masturbate lots. Any other stereotypes you want to add?

The media - the sun at that ffs will only tell you what they want you to know. This poor poor woman who was doing nothing wrong was wrestled into a police cell and stripped. Oh how disproportionate! Like fuck. She was arrested for a disturbance involving partner. Probably allegations of assault, then assaulted two police officers. Might be innocent tip otherwise proven but the assaulted officers may well be the ones inthe film and as such they know she is guilty.

Oh but the police must be guilty without trial!

Appologies for errors. iPhone keeps replacing words randomly!

Little kids not lite
To be not tone.

And it looks to me like they are putting limb restraints on her after she is grabbing one officer's arm and is kicking out at the others.