So how much can New Castle afford to pay out? Hope itâs enough to shut down the police department for being stupid!
Edit:
And what about the âmedical professionalsâ? Did they not see how wrong this was or were they scared of the cop?
Itâs not the New Castle, Penn. that I knew as a kid, sadly.
Well, at least itâs better than being jailed and killed by hanging in your cell.
Yay progress?
WTFF?? Why do they always go with doubling and tripling down on the stupid when it is obvious they done fucked up and have nothing to go on?
Iâm surprised the hospital didnât try to bill her âfor services renderedâ as I recall hospitals have tried to bill victims of police-ordered sexual assault by medical professionals before.
[insert outrage here]
See you when this happens again.
::sigh::
Why shouldnât they? They know thereâs no more repercussions than for the initial fuck-up (i.e. none), and they might, just might find something that would, at least in their minds, retroactively justify everything they did. How often do events like this get reported, how often do the reported events result in actual disciplinary action against the cops, and how often do we not hear about this? Given how relaxed the cops are when doing cavity searches, Iâd say they do it far more routinely than we hear about. The cops just pick the people least likely to make a fuss (because they know how little justice theyâd likely get).
I feel like any cop who does a cavity search, or orders a medical professional to do one, and is later found not to have had valid probable cause, should have to report to a hospital for a cavity search before theyâre allowed on patrol again.
Because if itâs not a serious invasion, then they should have no objection to undergoing one themselves a few times a year, right?
Iâm seriously starting to run out of memes to express the full extent of my perplexity and dismayâŚ
Oh, the lawsuit that will come.
Oh, the lawsuit.
I hope she hires the biggest meanest donât-fuck-with-me lawyer in the history of the world and takes both the police and the hospital to town. Give them a good solid probing of their bank accounts.
Itâs sad: the only thing about this story that surprises me is that Ms. Carbone has an Italian name and so is (maybe) white.
Minor correctionâŚ
They make Psychiatrists get psychoanalyzed before they can get certified, but they donât make surgeons get cut on. That seem right to you?
The last person* this happened to got a $1.6 million settlement.
That time there was a big outcry over the âmedical professionalsâ at Gila Regional Medical Center violating their oaths by performing multiple invasive searches against the will of the person (and billing him!). I donât recall if anything happened to those âdoctors.â Hopefully something happens this time.
Edit: Found out, the suit against the hospital was dismissed, even though a prior hospital had turned the police away because they were asking for unethical actions. We should remember the names of Gila Regional Medical Center and Jameson Hospital in New Castle (and the doctor involved as despicable places and people.
*the last one that made these kinds of blog posts â Iâm sure there have been others
[insert âwhy not both .gifâ here]
Well hey, they didnât shoot her. Progress!
See, I think thatâs the ideal - but requiring them to be subject to the same treatment they doled out has the virtue of allowing one to strenuously agree with the cops own argument that itâs not a big deal.
It also doesnât require breaking through the nearly impossible task of ever getting a cop prosecuted.
It also doesnât require putting the victim through re-victimization by cross-examination.
As much as it pisses me off when people donât use their indicators, this seems a tad excessive.
I just have a vision of this increasingly distressed cop - heâs got her in the hospital, doing more and more outrageous shit to justify his fuck-up and every now and then he goes out in the hallway and screams "WHY, WHY DIDNâT i JUST SHOOT HER!!"
His chief is calling him every 20 minutes, asking âfound anything yet? Do you think the nurseâs will let you shoot her? Why not - you know maybe it wouldnât hurt to askâ
It does anger me when people donât indicate, but isnât there already a penalty defined in the legislation for this?
Oh, right! I get it. In Pennsylvania, that penalty is a full genital cavity search.
