From Orange County Weekly:
Illegally Park-ed
“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.
When the case went to trial, however, defense attorney Al Stokke argued that Park wasn’t responsible for making sticky all over the woman’s sweater. He insisted that she made the married patrolman make the mess—after all, she was on her way home from work as a dancer at Captain Cream Cabaret.
“She got what she wanted,” said Stokke. “She’s an overtly sexual person.”
A jury of one woman and 11 men—many white and in their 50s or 60s—agreed with Stokke. On Feb. 2, after a half-day of deliberations, they found Park not guilty of three felony charges that he’d used his badge to win sexual favors during the December 2004 traffic stop.”
This story is an outrage. Despite evidence that this cop pulled over the stripper, pulled his cock out and made her jerk him off or go to jail, he got off. Why? The stripper’s occupation was put on trial and the cop was made out to be an upstanding civil servant. The jury was all older men except for one woman. And tellingly, “longtime courthouse observers have no memory of an Orange County jury convicting a police officer of a felony.”
Is this an isolated incident? Sadly it is not. Police officers are supposed to enforce the law, not be above it. However, until cops are actually punished for actions such as these, there will be corrupt officers who continue to abuse their power.
A friend of mine is a stripper. She called me one day freaked out after being pulled over. The cop pulled her over for weaving. She says she wasn’t and I believe her. She’s a good driver and she had an alcoholic father so never drinks alcohol herself.
The cop admitted he knew she hadn’t been drinking. He asked to search her car and she gave permission. (Something I vehemently disagree with. Don’t let anyone search your vehicle unless they get a warrant. It does not matter if you don’t have anything to hide, it’s the principle.) She sometimes does nude modeling and her portfolio was in the car.
The police officer found it and started looking through it. Blatantly leering over the pictures he made comments about her hot body. He found a nude picture he liked and asked if he could keep it. Then he asked if she worked at a certain strip club. He made it clear he knew the place and knew who she was. She was freaked out that he somehow knew where she worked so let him keep the photo. Then he asked her to autograph it with her stripper name. She was scared that he now knew her legal and stripper names but signed it anyway.
Thankfully, he let her go after that. But what he did was sexual harassment. Did she report him? No, because she didn’t think anyone would believe her because of her job.
Posted by Vixen in Political Rants, News