Current Events > Video: Black woman held down by police, forced to strip naked!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Io1TOYUt9vA

When they pulled me over, they didnt really explain to me, they just pulled me out of my car, Ariel Harrison said.

The McDonough County Sheriffs Office in Illinois is facing fierce criticism after a 31-year-old Black mother of three was held down inside a jail cell and forcibly stripped naked in front of male officers.

Ariel Harrison, who is partially blind, had just left a liquor store and was driving around Macomb County on Oct. 26, 2019, when she was pulled over by police for allegedly driving recklessly. The officers accused her of driving under the influence, but Harrison insisted she had not been drinking. She was put into a squad car but was not handcuffed.

When they pulled me over, they didnt really explain to me, they just pulled me out of my car, Harrison told VICE News.

Harrison said she pleaded with the officers to explain what she did wrong. She claims her alcohol level was never tested and she was tased multiple times before being transported to the McDonough County Jail.

Recently released video shows two corrections officers and a sheriff pointing a taser at her and stripping Harrison after she allegedly refused to undress. Per the report, Harrison continuously asked for privacy and expressed fears of being sexually assaulted.

I had told her that its not right. That he wasnt supposed to be there while I changed, Harrison said about the female officer. She told me, Well, hes here with me. Basically, she didnt really care. I felt like she violated my rights.

McDonough County Corrections officers said they removed Harrisons clothes because she was uncooperative. Instead of giving her the privacy that she requested, the two officers removed her clothes. A third officer restrained her legs by kneeling on them. They left her naked in the cell before returning to give her a cloak to wear.

That stuff happened so fast, Harrison said of the incident. When I watch the video of them doing that stuff to me, Im in shock. Its like I look at them and say That couldnt be me.

Ariels being given multiple, simultaneous, and even contradictory instructions as a disabled driver who is blind in her left eye, DWMC founder Heather McMeekan told VICE News. Shes being told, Put it in park, open the door, unbuckle your seatbelt, give me your drivers license, give me your vehicle registration. They literally give her just a few seconds.

Harrison said the flurry of commands left her shocked and speechless.

I was in shock mode, I guess. I didnt know what to do, she said. I was still trying to process why I was being pulled over exactly when they snatched me up out of their car.

As a former paramedic and trained health educator, I can tell you that was not enough time for anybody to be able to process all those commands at once, McMeekan said. Even under the best conditions, let alone at night, when youre already exhausted from taking care of kids all day, running errands, and then youve got a frightened person who you were just trying to help.

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Crazy.

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Arrested for being black

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mcab
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Video is age restricted

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This is the same state where cops broke into a woman's home while she was in the shower, dragged her out, and made her stand completely naked and handcuffed without any woman officer present and never tried to cover her up.

They proceeded to tear her apartment up, a woman officer eventually shows up and places a large blanket on this nude woman while still doing nothing.

It turns out they went to the wrong apartment. They left her with a broken door and a piss poor attempt to keep it shut with an ironing board.

Nothing happened to those cops and nothing will happen to these cops. Sexual assault by cops on black women has already been deemed appropriate within the state of Illinois.

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R1masher posted...

Video is age restricted

Uh, yeah. Of course it is.

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I dont know if it was justified, I wasnt there so I dont know the details

According to a comment on YouTube, she's already been found guilty by a judge and will be sentenced in August. She has been in prison for a year and faces several more years potentially.

For.....supposed drunk driving? This makes no sense.

Also I say supposed cause she claims she never drank that night and was buying beer but was taking it home to drink. Cops say she was drinking it in the car. They never tested her alcohol level and never proved she was drinking. Just that beer was in the car

Also they shouted like 10 different complicated commands at her in the span of a few seconds. And she was still processing I'm her head what they wanted, when they got impaction and dragged her out of her car and tazed her

in the words of Ted from Scrubs... girlfriends gonna get paiiiidddd. Sorry she had to go through such a horrible thing. No one should be forced into that kind of situation. I hope she gets paid royally for that.

Kastrada posted...

This is the same state where cops broke into a woman's home while she was in the shower, dragged her out, and made her stand completely naked and handcuffed without any woman officer present and never tried to cover her up.

They proceeded to tear her apartment up, a woman officer eventually shows up and places a large blanket on this nude woman while still doing nothing.

It turns out they went to the wrong apartment. They left her with a broken door and a piss poor attempt to keep it shut with an ironing board.

Nothing happened to those cops and nothing will happen to these cops. Sexual assault by cops on black women has already been deemed appropriate within the state of Illinois.

I thought this was that incident at first.
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And thats a pig. He isnt supposed to be there he was being a pervert.

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Apparently about a quarter of CE is totally fine with a dystopian nightmare scenario out of V is for Vendetta.

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woah, woah! any criticism of the police makes you anti-cop because "not all cops."
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Isolated incident #6843368994278437457^2

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Im so fucking sick of these violent racist pigs

@darkprince45

care to defend your diarrhea?

Pigs gonna oink.
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7 people want to get on their knees for the popo and ask whether they fellate or bend and spread, or both. What shills

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What_ posted...

care to defend your diarrhea?

this is bad but its a small percentage of overall encounters!

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