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Cassandra Feuerstein Sues For Alleged Police Brutality: Video

A Chicago woman arrested for a DUI was seriously injured after allegedly being shoved by a police officer headfirst into a jail cell bench.

Cassandra Feuerstein, 47, was arrested March 10 by the Skokie Police Department after officers found her vehicle pulled over on the side of the road while she was asleep behind the wheel, NBC Chicago reported.

In a video released Wednesday by Feuerstein's attorney, Torreya Hamilton, an officer can be seen acting with what he said is excessive force.

Feuerstein allegedly asked to call her husband and children. Officer Michael Hart called her out of the cell. Less than 10 seconds later, the video shows Hart launching the woman back into the cell where she hits the bench face-first.

The 110-pound woman can be seen collapsed on the floor, her face bruised, bloodied, and allegedly broken in several places. Hart walks over to her briefly before turning around.

"He was not apologetic at all," Hamilton says about Hart in the video.

Two officers then help Feuerstein. A male officer helps her sit up and cradles her as a female officer works to stop the bleeding from her nose.

"The video speaks for itself," Hamilton told the Chicago Tribune. "She does nothing to justify what this male police officer does."

Feuerstein said several bones were shattered in her face, and she required reconstructive surgery and a titanium plate in her cheek. Photos taken show her battered face and blood-red eye.

"I think when you look at this and you see the video which we are so fortunate to have, I think what you see is this is like the cowardly act of a bully," Hamilton told My Fox Chicago.

Hart filed a complaint against Feuerstein for resisting a peace officer. Those charges were later dismissed after Cook County prosecutors reviewed the evidence. Feuerstein pleaded guilty to drunk driving.

Hart is still employed and has not been charged with a crime.


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Below is the entire video; the one in the article omits what happens when she leaves the cell, the below one does not. The relevant part starts at 1:50.

Also, warning, there's quite a bit of blood in this, if you're squeamish.


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Should lose his job and be charged with assault (of some sort). There is no excuse for this and the department needs to make it clear to the public, and the officers, this kind of thing will not be tolerated in the slightest.

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I'm not surprised the arsehole tried to get "resisting a peace officer" charges against the girl, standard practice for this sort of thing. I am surprised that they didn't find the video had been "accidentally" switched off, wiped or disappeared in mysterious circumstances. Obviously someone missed coverup 101.

Poor girl will probably never look the same again. The officer in question definitely deserves to be stripped of his job and get some serious jail time for that.

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What the hell prompted that. She was just standing around then that one officer roughly grabs her by the arm and pulls her to the cell, then throws her headlong into that bench, takes a look and walks off.

It's absolutely assault. It's totally unwarranted aggression. Being a police officer doesn't mean you can assault people with impunity, well it shouldn't but no action has been taken.
   
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It would be interesting to have had sound with that video. No call for that kind of treatment.
   
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Probably work

Kan will know what happened that caused the officer to have to defend himself so valiantly. Wait for him to show up.

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 Ahtman wrote:
Should lose his job and be charged with assault (of some sort). There is no excuse for this and the department needs to make it clear to the public, and the officers, this kind of thing will not be tolerated in the slightest.


Agreed.
   
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This reminds me of Elliot Stabler from Law and Order: SVU
No matter what he did to a suspect, he got off scotch free.

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That officer should be investigated fully, and punished accordingly. The public must have faith that those who uphold the law are not above it.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
This reminds me of Elliot Stabler from Law and Order: SVU
No matter what he did to a suspect, he got off scotch free.

Its almost as if that were a work of fiction, and his being punished didn't serve as a plot device

 
   
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I just said it reminded me, but sometimes life imitates fiction.

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 hotsauceman1 wrote:
I just said it reminded me, but sometimes life imitates fiction.


Or in the case of L&O:SVU, life imitates really really bad fiction that should have been cancelled after the pilot, and then had all copies of the show incinerated.

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What is it they call it on TV?

"The Blue Shield of Silence?"
   
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 Compel wrote:
What is it they call it on TV?

"The Blue Shield of Silence?"


Blue wall, is what I always heard it as.

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It's called a lot of things. The Blue Wall, the Blue Shield of Silence, the Blue Wall of Silence. It's all the same thing me thinks.

   
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Thin Blue Line is another. That individual needs to get hammered to the fullest extent. If my troops and I can have restraint holding a EPW that was known to plant IED's that claimed four US Service members over one month time and he handle a intoxicated female in a cell like that.....I wouldn't even give him eye contact of acknowledgement...

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That is the problem, Often cops are not given proper training or anything. They are not disciplined much even in training, My Proff who was also a cop said that to become a cop requires classes that teach protical and a few physical fitness requirements.

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Everyone knows the difference between right and wrong. Everyone in a uniform has a set standards. Everyone has a degree of integrity. Everyone in a professional position of authority knows acceptable behavior. This individual failed in everything in what is expected of him in uniform.

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Relapse wrote:
It would be interesting to have had sound with that video. No call for that kind of treatment.
the footage from the inside of the cell didn't, but the footage from when she was taken out of her cell had clear, if quiet, audio.

   
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HE DIDN'T BREAK THE LAW!!! HE IS THE LAW!!!

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I'm just surprised he didn't shoot her.

   
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 Goliath wrote:
Relapse wrote:
It would be interesting to have had sound with that video. No call for that kind of treatment.
the footage from the inside of the cell didn't, but the footage from when she was taken out of her cell had clear, if quiet, audio.


It's unfortunate that more conversation couldn't be heard. It seemed calm enough when she was being photographed, but I'm sure there must have been some unguarded comments in that cell. I believe that many of us here would have had words with the officer responsible if we were his co workers in that situation as I am sure the ones helping that woman must have.
   
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Relapse wrote:
I believe that many of us here would have had words with the officer responsible if we were his co workers in that situation as I am sure the ones helping that woman must have.


That's the weirdest part of that, right? If you're one of those cops that walked in, and found that woman in there with her face broken. I mean, how do you let that slide as a law enforcement officer? Blue wall is one thing, but that to me seems like a bit much.


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Officers are a Tight knight group. It is often that they see anything done to a criminal as ok, After all it is just a drunk right?(Note I do not think this way.)

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 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Officers are a Tight knight group. It is often that they see anything done to a criminal as ok, After all it is just a drunk right?(Note I do not think this way.)


I'm curious, do you have experience to back this up, or are you just basing this off of perception?

Because it's basically a denigration of a sector of the populace who has pretty much taken on the burden of protecting society. Sure, there are bad apples, there is plenty of evidence, but comments like these serve no good in any way shape or form. For every bad apple, there is most likely 10 out standing virtuous officers who have to deal with the bad rep associated, and perpetuating that does no one any good at all.

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A professor who was also a cop. He said that was quite often a problem. officers looking out for others and covering them. Yes there are good people, if you see ky other posts im always defending the police it is a hard job. BUT sometimes you cannot defend them

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I probably wouldn't have said anything to the guy myself, aside from getting him the feth off the floor.

Once something's gone criminal, talk as little as possible to the potential defendant, because hey, guess what, you're going on the stand yourself, and you don't want to be under the microscope for fething something up. Even something that was, at the time, an innocuous comment can come back to haunt you.
   
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 Seaward wrote:
I probably wouldn't have said anything to the guy myself, aside from getting him the feth off the floor.

Once something's gone criminal, talk as little as possible to the potential defendant, because hey, guess what, you're going on the stand yourself, and you don't want to be under the microscope for fething something up. Even something that was, at the time, an innocuous comment can come back to haunt you.


That is very true. I had a similar situation as an Airman where I was a witness to a criminal act, and my dumb ass didn't know how to act at the time. Even though I did nothing wrong, my actions were put under extreme scrutiny, and it generally just led to a gakky couple of weeks.

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 djones520 wrote:
That is very true. I had a similar situation as an Airman where I was a witness to a criminal act


I understand what you're saying, but that's not exactly a perfect analogy, in that as an airman you're not responsible for upholding the UCMJ. If you had been an MP and had seen another MP doing this to a prisoner, would you have felt compelled to act in some way?

edit: The second I posted that I realize there are facts not in evidence here. I guess for all we know all 3 cops did immediately report this to Internal Affairs and for whatever reason we are not privy to, IAD saw no crime (which is a different problem).

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 Ouze wrote:
I understand what you're saying, but that's not exactly a perfect analogy, in that as an airman you're not responsible for upholding the UCMJ. If you had been an MP and had seen another MP doing this to a prisoner, would you have felt compelled to act in some way?

Do we know what the other cops saw?

Also not strictly true.

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 Ouze wrote:
 djones520 wrote:
That is very true. I had a similar situation as an Airman where I was a witness to a criminal act


I understand what you're saying, but that's not exactly a perfect analogy, in that as an airman you're not responsible for upholding the UCMJ. If you had been an MP and had seen another MP doing this to a prisoner, would you have felt compelled to act in some way?

edit: The second I posted that I realize there are facts not in evidence here. I guess for all we know all 3 cops did immediately report this to Internal Affairs and for whatever reason we are not privy to, IAD saw no crime (which is a different problem).



Actually, as an Airman I am/was responsible for upholding it. But that's beside the point. If your a witness to something, getting involved beyond the immediate needs (like first aid) should be avoided, because it will only get you more embroiled in the situation, and potentially cause a lot of heartache.

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