No one was killed in a wheelchair by a firing squad. No one was left 17 days in a jail cell without meds to die while detoxing. In the scheme of abuse that is so prevalent in our police-prison-industrial complex this is likely a small blip on a very large, and very lit up, radar screen.
Nonetheless...
Cops Strip, Parade, Pepper Spray Woman
And Lock Her In Cell For Seven Hours
There is apparently no limit, no bound on the degradation police and jailers think is proper to subject human beings to whom, as the lawyer in the video makes clear, are only accused, not found guilty, of any charges.
There are hundreds, thousands, every day who are subjected to these horrible examples of the human species. I am glad this woman has a lawyer. I am sick thinking of all those who don't, and never will.
Fri Sep 25, 2015 at 7:35 PM PT:
In addition, it is not the first time such allegations have been made against the jail. In 2012, another woman, named Ashley Storms, a cousin of Gentry, was allegedly stripped of her clothing by sheriff's deputies, tazed and left naked in a cell for eight hours. That case was eventually settled out of court for an undisclosed sum.
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From the video description.