Thursday, May 05, 2005

QUIS CUSTODIET IPSOS CUSTODES
Means "Who Polices the Police?"

From the AP via the Houston Chronicle:

Lawman accused of cuffing woman who declined sex

Dooley told a Texas Ranger investigator that he, Sedgebeer and the woman spent time in a hot tub Sunday night and he handcuffed the woman after she "became emotionally upset and uncontrollable." He said he left her in handcuffs for 10 minutes so she could calm down.

Dooley also denied asking the woman to do anything with Sedgebeer but told investigators the woman performed a sex act on him.

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Well, it could be exactly as this guy describes it: kinky swingers having to deal with a freaked out novice. Or not. No one's been indicted yet, and that may never happen, but I know that cops have a huge tendency to overreact and treat their authority as sacrosanct, especially Texas cops. I'd give fifty/fifty odds that this is what happened here. Actually, this kind of cop attitude is pretty much why I make these QUIS CUSTODIET IPSOS CUSTODES posts in the first place: police culture is out of control.

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