>When asked what specific ordinance said the demonstrators needed a permit to protest, one officer responded “I’m not getting into it at five o’clock at night… I’m a State police officer, I know the law – THAT’S IT.”
>“These sexually intrusive searches were conducted without any regard for the privacy of the Plaintiffs or the other female participants: one of the searches had been done on a teenage girl who was immediately adjacent to a teenage boy, much to her intense embarrassment and shame,” the lawsuit claims.
>A woman unconnected with the demonstration, who was detained at the center and charged with check fraud, reportedly said she herself had not been searched “in nearly so intrusive a manner,” the lawsuit says.
>a college student from Erie, Pa., who attended the press conference, said she wanted the state troopers to know she forgives them.
>She said she had just graduated from high school when she was arrested.
>"I knew in my heart that what I was doing was right and I was protected by the First Amendment," Swagler said. "It was a traumatic experience in its own right, and I never want anyone, women in particular, to experience the horrors I did of being shackled, imprisoned and getting strip-searched twice."
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If you need a visual of the degrading humiliation these modest girls were forced to go through, here's a strip search training video.
Warning, because we live in clown world the woman's face is censored but her nude body is uncensored. youtube.com
The police are not your friend. State and local police are just as bad as the ATF.
