you're asking to be sexually assaulted, at least according to one jury. A dancer was stalked, pulled over by, and masturbated on by a police officer who violated several other rules of procedure, and he walked thanks to a defense that amounted to literally argued that the dancer "got what she wanted....She’s an overtly sexual person."
To say the story is sordid is to give it too much credit. This woman has now been twice victimized--once by a rogue cop and once by her fellow citizens who decided for some reason that if you're a stripper, you deserve to be treated less than human.
And it's not like any of the facts of the case were in dispute here either, like there was room for reasonable doubt as to the cop's guilt.
No one disputes that an on-duty Irvine police officer got an erection and ejaculated on a motorist during an early-morning traffic stop in Laguna Beach. The female driver reported it, DNA testing confirmed it and officer David Alex Park finally admitted it.
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On the witness stand, Park explained that he’d called Lucy out of concern for a citizen’s safety. He also shrugged his shoulders when Kamiabipour slowly listed the first names of nine Captain Cream female employees—Annette, Denise, Rashele, Marlia, Brandi, Andrea, Deborah, Laura and Shannon—whose license plates he’d run through the DMV computer in the weeks prior to his sexual encounter with Lucy. (Another coincidence, according to Stokke.) Jurors also learned that Irvine Police Sgt. Michael Hallinan had previously warned Park as they left work to stay away from the strippers.
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"[Park’s] testimony was just incredible," said Kamiabipour. Irvine city officials must have doubted his story, too. After an exhaustive police internal affairs investigation, they felt it was prudent to give Lucy $400,000 to make her civil lawsuit go away—for fear a jury might give her much more.
And the cop's defenders were equally despicable, making the case that because this woman danced around a pole, she was asking to be stalked and sexually abused. I've limited the quotes in this diary because of the fair use rules, but there's so many more disgusting parts to this story that you really ought to go read it for yourself. I'd like to think there's a way we can get a federal prosecutor to look at a civil rights charge against this cop, or at the very least, raise some public awareness of the case so as to shame the local PD into firing the cop once and for all.