Skokie Illinois is a suburb on the Northern edge of Chicago, about a 15 minute drive from where I live. It is most known as a place with a high concentration of Holocaust survivors (and now their children). Its 15 minutes of fame came when some folks claiming to be the KKK wanted a parade permit and the city turned them down. The ACLU intervened on behalf if the KKK
On the basis of the 1st Amendment right to assemble and show the world how stupid you are.
So the drunk driving industry has another casualty – the Skokie police took a 47 year old woman into custody for DUI – the police charged her with “resisting” the officer, which may be true since the video released today is from her attorney. It shows a police officer holding her arms behind her, and forcefully shoving her forward. Keep in mind she is allegedly “drunk”. When you look at her legs, she is very very thin which probably contributed to her alcohol level.
http://m.heraldsun.com.au/news/world/video-captures-police-violently-shoving-cassandra-feuerstein-into-cell-breaking-her-facial-bones/story-fni0xs61-1226737973438
She falls forward and hits her head on the concrete sitting area of the holding cell and bounces onto the floor motionless. Another officer eventually lifts up her head and sees a large pool of blood on the floor under her and they go into “oh shit, this is gonna be a lot of paperwork” mode.
The resisting charge was dropped and she plead guilty to the DWI. Now the lawsuit starts.
The officer involved is now on desk duty with no public contact. More than likely he’ll file a disability claim claiming PTSD from his trauma and be on a pension for the next 30 years.
What is happening here to us in the US is similar to Germany’s dehumanizing of ‘undesirables’ in the 1930’s making the way of the brown shirts easier. The government is systematically making neighbors into boogie-men to attack later. This story reminds me that police, nursing home staffs others I have witnessed have dehumanized civilians for ages. I suppose on some level they see a need to. In the kitchen more often I would cook to and for Escoffier, Bocuse, or F. Point rather than the paying customer.
Germany depended on neighbors turning in the undesirables. They were unable to sit in an office and run computer queries to find undesirables.
By the way, she was found stopped on the side of the road asleep. The presumption is if you and the keys are inside the passenger compartment – even if you’re in a parking lot and the police never saw you driving the car – you still had the potential to have been impaired at some point.
http://beforeitsnews.com/the-law/2013/06/wake-up-call-dont-get-a-dui-while-sleeping-and-parked-2451040.html
If many places, if you are texting, you are not legally in control of your car… so maybe that is why society sees drunks texting while driving. 😉
Interesting defense you offer – okay officer, if you give me a ticket for texting you can’t give me a DWI.