Below is a disturbing video from the Summit County (Ohio) jail where Siobhan Householder, 35, is shown being thrown to the ground and having her jaw pried open by deputies because she had taken Tylenol while waiting in a prisoner-holding room. She was merely at the jail to have a warrant lifted so she did not appear in custody. Indeed, she was left with her purse, soda, and other items as she waited. What followed was highly shocking.
Householder, a mother of three, has a tooth infection and had swallowed the pain reliever when Deputy Eric Vaughn spotted her. She says that he demanded to know what she was taking and she said “Tylenol.” He allegedly ordered her to spit it out but she had already swallowed it. She says that she was only able to say “I can’t” when he pulled her up and threw her to the ground while trying to pry open her mouth. She had one of the three pills in her mouth but say that he was squeezing her mouth and pulling her hair — making it impossible to spit it out.
She suffered a bruised chin, cuts inside her mouth, bruises to her legs and some hair loss. The officer is seen later collecting the Tylenol bottle and a single pill from the ground. Householder was handcuffed and frisked and her bags were searched before being taken to Akron General Medical Center.
While she was in the hospital ER, she was hit with charges of resisting arrest and obstructing official business. She was not charged with any drug offense.
Given the sudden action by the officer, it is hard to see the basis for resisting arrest in this video and the obstruction charge seems to be redundant and equally problematic. We have seen in the past how victims of abuse are often hit with multiple charges that are later dropped. The concern is that police will charge individuals not only to justify their actions but to encourage a plea deal or at least an agreement not to sue the police.
What do you think?
Source: Ohio.com
Kudos: Michael Blott
Disgusting.
There are 5 cops on this video who should lose their jobs immediately.
Judge, Jury, and Executioner: Have the Police Become a Law Unto Themselves?
By John W. Whitehead
May 19, 2014
https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/judge_jury_and_executioner_have_the_police_become_a_law_unto_themselves
anon – I would agree but I am saving the article to read later.
i don’t know why but the song “if i had a rocket launcher” kept playing in my head while reading this article and viewing the video.
((*_*)) Nick,.
leej, I would hire you! Great job of playing devil’s advocate.
Maybe I have watched too many law and order but while the actions of the officers were assaultive there could be concern that she/ or David’s aunt was taking something that could have been meant to harm themselves. Just another take on it.
leejcarroll – I am sure that is going to be their defense. Or she was destroying evidence. Even though she was not under arrest.
looks like attemped rape to me…..
Thanks – davidm2575 – for the additional research, more detailed story.
David, Thanks.
The Gestapo and KGB moved out of Germany and USSR and transplanted to the United States. It gets worse every day.
Doc – are you talking literally for figuratively?
Not a brain between the officers present in the room when this women was brutally assaulted by the police officer. It was hard to watch. I think her attorney will want to speak to the African American witness in the room who initially seemed to try to intercede. The officer who initiated this assault should be doing the perp walk and the police department should be checking on their insurance coverage.
Our legal system is out of control and consistently oppresses the poor like this. Will it ever stop?
I found the following background from the niece of this woman:
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This is my aunt.
A little backstory: My aunt is homeless, she is currently staying at the Haven of Rest. She had just been to the dentist the day before. Along with needing 2 root canals and various other issues, she was prescribed Tylenol by the dentist.
May 9th she went to the court on her own because she was told there would be a warrant out for her, as she had a court date for which she didn’t appear. A complication of being homeless, as you have no transportation, nowhere to receive mail, etc.
The judge had an opening and saw her, everything was resolved, and he told her that a warrant had been ordered but never issued. He asked her to go have a seat while he filled out paperwork. She went and had a seat with her purse and polar pop. While she was waiting her tooth started to hurt, so she took some Tylenol out of her purse and took it. A deputy standing nearby asked her what she had just taken, and she told him Tylenol. He demanded that she spit it out, but she had already swallowed it. This resulted in the cop grabbing her by her neck/face and attempting to pry her mouth open, along with everything else you can witness in the video. Unfortunately there is no audio, but the deputy instigating the attack also referred to her as a “worthless cunt” at one point.
A bunch of other deputies enter the room, some assist, some just block other people from viewing what was happening. When they finished there was blood on her face, I assume most of it came from her mouth (this is visible in the full video which I am in the process of getting). After they had bloodied and bruised her, they arrested her for “obstructing official business” and took her to the hospital with both her arms and legs shackled, and shackled her to the hospital bed when they arrived (despite marking that no injuries had occured on the police report.) The arresting deputy got a phone call while at the hospital, hung up, told her “It’s your lucky day, we don’t want you.” and then left her there with absolutely no way to make it back to the Haven of Rest for the night.
In the article I posted you’ll notice the police statement issued claimed they found a latex glove with unknown pills in it, along with her other prescribed medications. Watch closely at 1:53 you will notice the older deputy pull a latex glove out, place it on one side, and then the young deputy up front pick up a latex glove along with the her bottles.
I currently only have a picture of her mouth injury on my phone, pardon the quality as it’s literally a picture, of a picture:
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http://www.reddit.com/r/Bad_Cop_No_Donut/comments/25mlrf/deputy_pries_open_womans_mouth_after_she_takes/
Don’t ever eat at a restaurant with badged Scumbags nearby. The last thing you’ll hear is, “what did you put in your mouth?” before beating you and charging you with assaulting a police officer.
Here we go again. Video showing a completely INNOCENT citizen being mauled by an officer of the law. And of course, the obligatory false charges to cover their abuse of authority.
Will they be held accountable this time?
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There is another recent story out there where a cop used his flashlight to bust out a citizen’s teeth because he might have had drugs in his mouth.
At least 5 officers appear in the video and not one tried to stop what was happening. Hope she sues the pants off of them!
Police State: There is no better descriptor. Consider the incarceration rates, the crackdown on dissent (Justice for Cecily,) the criminalization of nonviolent intoxicant use, the lack of prosecution of elite activity, etc.
This is how a couple asst. principals would handle the zero tolerance drug rules in schools.
Evidently taking legal drugs in the presence of the police is a criminal offense. They just have not found the statute yet.
We all know that the charges are bogus. The minute this sort of thing happens we can recite by rote the charges that will be filed against the innocent.
Is taking Tylenol, or any prescription drug for that matter, in police presence a crime in Ohio? Since when is defending yourself from a brazen attack by an armed assailant a crime?