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i have been look for more info on this but can't find much so far in news searches. the incident seems to have happened last year and the victim is now suing . the info below which includes some of his own commentary is from Jonathan Turley.
<There is an ongoing controversy in Los Angeles where pharmacist Kim Nguyen, 27, has charged that she was picked up for no reason by police, handcuffed, sexually assaulted, and then thrown out of a moving police car. A video shows the scene as Nguyen is left bleeding on the road.
The officers were identified as David Shin and Jin Oh in a report from the LA Times.
Nguyen says that she was waiting with her friends for a taxi to take them home when LAPD pulled up and began asking them questions. Despite the fact that they were waiting for a taxi to take them home, the officers allegedly declared Nguyen to be intoxicated and put her in the car in handcuffs. The officer left her two male friends behind and they say that the officers refused to tell them where they were taking Nguyen. She says that one officer stayed in the backseat with her as the other drove down the road. She claims that the officer in the backseat groped her behind her thighs as well as her chest. She says that she was then thrown out of the moving car. A video shows her on the road as a squad car is seen speeding through the intersection.
Nguyen was left in a coma with a broken jaw and brain injuries. She spent two weeks in the hospital. She reportedly lost all of her teeth.
Police insisted that Kim fell out of the car but critics say that the video shows the car speeding through the intersection. Her lawyer, Arnoldo Casillas, charges [t]he video shows that the statement that the police officers gave the paramedics is an unabashed, unequivocal lie. He notes that, since she was handcuffed, she could not open the door herself. Kim adds that she could not have opened the door herself, because she was handcuffed.
However, why would the officer throw the woman handcuffed from the car when they knew that witnesses saw the arrest and the handcuffs would implicate them?
On the other hand, why arrest a woman who says that she is waiting for a taxi with friends?
It is a curious case to be sure and quite disturbing. The LAPD has made no further statement.
Nguyen is now suing the LAPD and discovery could prove very interesting given the sharp conflict in accounts.>
http://jonathanturley.org/2014/01/14/lapd-officers-accused-of-handcuffing-woman-assaulting-her-and-tossing-her-from-moving-car/
Can a passenger open the door on a police car if they are placed in the backseat ?
I didn't think the back doors had handles on the inside.
I do not have first hand experience.
My Google search was not fruitful.
Ranchemp.
(1,991 posts)this is to prevent just such a possibility of a subject opening the door and escaping.
If the cops put this in their report, they're fucking lying.
SamKnause
(13,091 posts)Thanks for the input.
I knew I had heard that somewhere.
I thought they were lying.
Ranchemp.
(1,991 posts)it's SOP for every department I've ever dealt with to seat belt a subject to further prevent movement.
SamKnause
(13,091 posts)Thanks
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)K&R
Madmiddle
(459 posts)for the American people to put a stop to police brutality. These ex soldiers, chosen obviously because they were taught how to hate and kill, need to be stopped, if not by law then by all the force the American people muster. We will end this shit. Now I'm sure DU won't allow this, but it needs to be ended!!!
go west young man
(4,856 posts)and all the BS clears right up.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)newfie11
(8,159 posts)I hope she survives
valerief
(53,235 posts)blackspade
(10,056 posts)That is one of the key things for me in these types of incidents.
These cops are just standing round doing nothing intend of rendering aid to this woman.
Their story is bullshit.
Dash87
(3,220 posts)They're the best!
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)jsr
(7,712 posts)jsr
(7,712 posts)Dash87
(3,220 posts)They wouldn't lock the cruiser doors? Do they think we're stupid? What did she magically float out of a speeding cruiser?
LAPD - Stop protecting these scumbags. They'll do it again, and what if this time, it's your daughter they do it to?
AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)When I lived in LA back in the late 70s and early 80s you steered far away from the cops. I remember driving down an alley just off Santa Monica blvd and the cops had 20 or 30 gay teenagers handcuffed to a chain link fence, beating them with billy clubs. I remember sitting at a bus stop with my friend waiting to catch a bus to Santa Monica beach, and a cop car rolling up and stopping in front of us. The cop in the passenger side said, "You can't run and you can't hide, but if you keep sitting there you're gonna take a walk on the wild side". "Er, um...we're waiting to catch the bus?" The cop started getting out so we just walked away.
Everyone lived in fear of them. At least now-a-days they have cameras. They are flipping animals.
Rex
(65,616 posts)YAY COPS!
siligut
(12,272 posts)An investigation needs to be made into events prior to the incident to determine which powerful person she irked or caused problems for. She is a pharmacist, maybe there is some drug related crime she was getting too close to.
JI7
(89,244 posts)siligut
(12,272 posts)Sure looks to me like the cops were punishing her.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)DisgustipatedinCA
(12,530 posts)They also need to know great pain, viscerally. But I'd better stop, so I will.
JI7
(89,244 posts)i don't think they even got suspended or moved to a desk job.