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Article Source: the Mail onlineA former Playboy bunny is suing the New York Police Department claiming they manhandled her following an altercation with a cab driver in 2006.
Stephanie Adams, 40, says police drew their guns on her and with unnecessary force shoved her face to the pavement causing physical injury after her taxi driver accused her as being armed and dangerous.
By Nina Golgowski
According to the New York Post, the driver, Eric Darko, later told city investigators that he believed Ms Adams was a vampire.
#1 - Sun Feb 12, 2012 5:48 PM ESTThe cabbie's obviously a nutjob, and NYPD is just so classy in how they treat suspects. Ms Adams is lucky she only got a faceful of road rash.
She was the first and only playmate to declare herself a lesbian though years later become engaged to 'a loving, supportive, successful man,' she told the Post in 2009.
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It appears she's willling to say or do anything for money.. including lie about her sexuality..... I'm sure the injury to her spine isn't stopping her from "loving" her supporter, suckcessful man
#2 - Sun Feb 12, 2012 6:55 PM ESTwow...nypd twilight...actually that kinda sounds like a cool show...well...except for the twilight part...
#3 - Sun Feb 12, 2012 6:57 PM ESTOK... The cabbie claimed that she was a vampire, and NYPD throws HER to the ground, not the cab driver?
GEESH!!!
#4 - Sun Feb 12, 2012 10:48 PM ESTNYPD threw "her" to the ground, can you believe that? I mean, look at her pic, Vampire? Hell ....BITE "ME"!
What was the point of including the line about her being a lesbian that later married a man? I dont get how that made any bit of difference to the story.
#5 - Mon Feb 13, 2012 12:07 PM ESTMaybe next time she will comply with the police. If you are told to raise your arms by the police then you @!$%#ing do it. If they can't get you to do the right thing then @!$%# you.
#6 - Mon Feb 13, 2012 2:06 PM ESTTotal agreement with you... People who find problems with the police.. are the ones that cause problems with the police.
Or people who know their rights. Something these gang member with badges aka police have a big issue with.
Oh snap. It's my friend Midnight Toker. He has come to stand up for the rights of Honest and Law abiding citizens. Yeaaa!
Well she had the right to remain silent. She had the right to comply with instructions or be forced to do so...She chose foolishly.
Or people who know their rights
Police are there to enforce the laws.. not listen to someone bitching at them.. that is a matter that should be brought up before the court where the Laws are applied.. Someone mouthing off a the cops .. "I know my rights blah blah blah" will find themselves defending their rights in a court of law.. A person that follows instructions that is given by the police 99 times out of 100 they will be treated well... I was arrested for something a long time ago (which I won't get into).. and I kept my mouth shut.. I turned my back to the cop .. my hands behind me.. and I was treated decently.. I know I was in the wrong.. Even if I thought that I wasn't.. I wouldn't give crapola to the police.. Only a moron would mouth off to the cops.. right or wrong.
They have the right to apprehend a person.. and whatever the person does.. the police can counter to the action... If you run.. they have the right to run after you and use whatever it is at their disposal to capture the person.
This woman must of mouthed off to the cops "I know my rights" and wouldn't oblige the police.. so the police had to get rough.. I would too..
People mouth off at the police because they are tired of being pushed around and abused by armed thugs in uniforms. We have become nothing more than enforcers of injustice, who ignore the rights of the citizens we have sworn to serve. Our duty is to preserve the peace, not oppress the masses.
NYPD dropped the ball on this one, and acted without thinking.
Violence first, and sort it out later... That is not the way to do things.
Yes.. the cops are suppose to go .. Pretty Please.. bullcrapola.. You cause trouble then you will find trouble.. They will react in kind to the situation.. If you do not follow instructions, and you resist arrest.. then the situation that happens is on the person not obliging the cops.
If I was a cop and something similar.. they'd probably have their face pushed into the pavement too.. and they can only blame themselves for not following orders. Ya wanna mouth off and resist.. fine.. but they will pay the consequence..
Mouthing off isn't against the law. They had no right to even detain her in that manner because of the here-say from the cab driver. Anyone can say anything about another that doesn't give these thugs the right to body slam anyone.
How could she resist arrest when she wasn't being arrested just detained?
They have the RIGHT to detain you for up to 48 hours without charging you. That has been the LAW for a long, long time. Knowing your rights and obeying the laws are two different things. She resisted a Law Enforcement Officer. It has nothing to do with arrest or not. Up until she resisted Law Enforcement Officers no crime had been committed.
The police have a right to detain anyone for questioning so they can sort out what went on.. and especially so if one of the persons is mouthing off "I know my rights" and will not be cooperative.. the police have a right to conduct an investigation at the scene and detain anyone. If that means putting a person in handcuffs because their being uncooperative or the police suspect someone might flea.. then they can.
and they can only blame themselves for not following orders.
This is not the military. Civilians are not generally accustomed to blindly following orders, especially when they feel that their rights are being violated, or they know that they have done nothing wrong.
And, when people ask why they should follow an order, "Because I said so" is not an acceptable answer.
Come on, the cabbie was accusing her of being a vampire. I know of no statute anywhere that says being a fictional, blood sucking creature of the night is illegal.
Actually the cabbie told police she threatened to SHOOT him. He later started saying she was a vampire. If she had complied and they had been able to get to the bottom of this before she started being a DIVA, then here pretty little face wouldn't have a boo boo.
As far as your, "Blindly Following Orders" military comment. You can shove it straight up your ass and I will take the ban. I am tired of you @!$%#ing idiots dogging our military men. Like they are a bunch of brainless robots running around. Stupid people do and say stupid things, see post 6.10 for an example.
Jimmy.
I am a military veteran, and a police officer. I have been a public servant my entire adult life.
You are way out of line, sir.
Detaining someone is different than arresting them and obviously comes with a different set of expectations legally from the officer. One being not assaulting the individual being detained. I know he can detain her just not in that manner of abusiveness.
She never resisted anything. She was assaulted.
Uh oh Jimmy the Gook is upset because we were not supposed to be a police state even though we are and this is a prime example.
New York's finest...Not so fine!!
#7 - Tue Feb 14, 2012 10:41 AM ESTClearly. They showed their ass at the OWS protests that's for sure.
Clearly. They showed their ass at the OWS protests that's for sure.
Yes they did!
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