sexual assault is okay

[niyad]

provided you're a cop, and she's a stripper

Illegally Park-ed
An Irvine cop ejaculates on a motorist but escapes criminal liability
By R. SCOTT MOXLEY
Thursday, February 8, 2007 - 3:00 pm

Officer Park: put your hands behind my back 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

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http://www.ocweekly.com/news/news/illegally-park-ed/26661/

[MADem]

1. That whole thing is mind boggling

“He was stalking her,” she said.

Four months earlier, Park had stopped Lucy under similar circumstances. That time, he’d ignored a plastic drug baggie he’d found in her car and her suspended license. But the stop wasn’t a waste of time. After friendly chit-chat, the officer had scored Lucy’s phone number. Telephone records show that Park called the stripper the next morning. She told him she was too busy to meet.

On the witness stand, Park explained that he’d called Lucy out of concern for a citizen’s safety. He also shrugged his shoulders when Kamiabipour slowly listed the first names of nine Captain Cream female employees—Annette, Denise, Rashele, Marlia, Brandi, Andrea, Deborah, Laura and Shannon—whose license plates he’d run through the DMV computer in the weeks prior to his sexual encounter with Lucy. (Another coincidence, according to Stokke.) Jurors also learned that Irvine Police Sgt. Michael Hallinan had previously warned Park as they left work to stay away from the strippers.

Park, who works in construction nowadays, conceded that he’d been given the warning but claimed that he had no clue it was Lucy in the vehicle or that she had an invalid driver’s license, even as he approached her car window.

Kamiabipour believed she’d caught the 6-foot-3 cop in a lie. Records show he ran the bosomy, 5-foot, 110-pound dancer’s license plate before the stop, did not call for backup despite the potential for an arrest and failed to tell his supervisor or dispatch that he was leaving Irvine. Several Irvine officers testified that Park’s behavior that night was odd.

“ testimony was just incredible,” said Kamiabipour. Irvine city officials must have doubted his story, too. After an exhaustive police internal affairs investigation, they felt it was prudent to give Lucy $400,000 to make her civil lawsuit go away—for fear a jury might give her much more.....

[xchrom]

2. this is what is so infuriating --

what if she hadn't been a stripper?

''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.”

with the advent of the rise of the religious right we've re-entered the morally schizophrenic era of the fifties -- no -- she's a stripper she either deserves is or whe's asking for for it.

or both.

it's 2007 for fucks sake -- what women do for a living is not an invitation to assault.

what if she had been a school teacher who he THOUGHT was dressed provocatively?

[mzteris]

3. ***what if

she had been a school teacher who he THOUGHT was dressed provocatively?***


Sadly, I don't know as if it would have made "much" difference. I mean, after all, he was a policeman and if a woman is dressed "provocatively" - well - she was just asking for it, wasn't she??





:sarcasm:

[xchrom]

4. so now that a jury has validated his rationale --

i wonder if we won't hear from this walking nightmare of a ''policeman'' again?

[bumblebee1]

7. I got one better:

What if she'd been a middle class housewife on her way home from the grocery store?

[lukasahero]

8. I'm not sure where these "what if's" are going?

Because it's beginning to sound like it would be horrible if it were to happen to a middle class housewife but, hey, this chick was just a stripper after all.

Maybe cops should just confine their dicks and their jacking off to women with whom they have consent regardless of their financial status or how they're dressed? Can we all agree on just that much?

[bumblebee1]

9. Not at all.

It should be equally horrifying whether it happened to a stripper or a middle class housewife.

[lukasahero]

10. Like I said, I wasn't sure

Thanks for clarifying - I heartily agree.

[mzteris]

11. no it's horrible, period.

Just that men have a way of justifying what they do regardless, you know?

The fact that she was "just a stripper" made it a bit easier for him to get away with though.

[mongo]

13. ..

:applause: :applause:

Well said...

[noamnety]

15. I think I understand where you were going with that

The way our society is set up, women don't have total autonomy as individuals in the same way that men do.

Thus (by cultural standards) it would be perceived as worse if she were a housewife - because then she "belongs" to someone - in other words, the cop would have been damaging a man's property, or insulting the man.

Because she's a stripper, she "belongs" collectively to all men. The cop, being a man, therefore had a right to use her.

I don't think the jury would have articulated it that way, but I believe they would have decided it differently if a husband had been there in court acting as though he'd been wronged as well. All those male jurors would not have accepted their wives (emphasis on "their") being treated like that.

[Ian David]

5. A stain on a blue dress only gets you in trouble if you're a Democrat. n/t

[AX10]

6. Well, it's Orange County. I would only expect white men...

from this area to see a cop (piggy) in the same light they see Bush. This makes be very angry. Maybe this cop will find himself someday at the end of a gangbangers gun. On the other hand, he most likely is in good with the gangs.

[SemperEadem]

12. so, the 'short skirt' defense

''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.”

So, if he ended up forcibly raping her, she 'got what she wanted' because he thinks she's an overly sexual person? As opposed to what? A frigid person? Just because she works in the sex industry, that automatically means that when she's not on the clock dancing that she wants sexual attention? How many people give away for free what they get paid to do for a living? When did it cease being her choice with whom she engaged in sexual experiences? When he leveraged the power of his badge and the law he was sworn to uphold against her?

His foul karma is going to catch up with him and when it does, it's not going to be a pretty site--same goes for that jury who acquitted him.

[redqueen]

14. I love that the story was published on Women's Day.

Ain't that a kick in the teeth...

[Triana]

16. "she got what she wanted"?!

WHO is HE to decide FOR HER what she wanted in that moment? Did he ASK her?

No. He didn't.

[AnnieBW]

17. Ewwwww....

Somehow I don't think that getting jizm all over her car was what this lady wanted - stripper or no. Especially on her way home from having horn-dogs pawing all over her.