Pantego PD pops a titty.

[Big A]

Way overkill for a traffic stop IMO, warrant for speeding or not.

http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Woman-Sues-Pantego-Police-Over-Burst-Breast-Implant-176870671.html

[talisman]

I bet I know the Officer. Wish the article had a name.

[JimD]

She should try not breaking the law.

[bcoop]

We're going to need to hear the titty's side of the story.


How dare you? Cops never do anything wrong. They are incapable of making mistakes.

[Wicked98Snake]

If anymore info on this story comes out someone please keep me abreast of the situation.

[talisman]

found an alternate article. Damn. I don't think I know this guy but I might recognize him. Deal with Pantego quite a bit.

PANTEGO -- Rebecca Van Hooser was returning home from a quick trip to a grocery store to buy cookie dough for her son's school project last year when she was pulled over by a Pantego police officer who said she was driving with her headlights off.

But the trouble really began when Officer Eric Alvarez asked her to get out of the car because of an outstanding warrant on a speeding ticket.

Van Hooser alleges that when Alvarez arrested her on Oct. 28, 2011, he told her to get out of the car, then kicked her legs apart and pinned her right arm behind her so hard that her right breast implant ruptured, according to a lawsuit filed in Tarrant County civil court last week.

As a result of her injuries, Van Hooser said she underwent a complete mastectomy of her right breast and endured tissue transplants, according to the lawsuit. When Van Hooser screamed and told Alvarez that she was in pain, he allegedly said: "You're not supposed to be comfortable."

Pantego Police Chief Thomas Griffith declined to comment on the lawsuit, which says that Van Hooser's constitutional protections against improper search and seizure were violated.

City Manager Sean Fox also declined to comment on the specifics in the lawsuit but said the city is looking into her allegations against the officer. Texas Commission on Law Enforcement Officer Standards and Education records show that there have not been any complaints against Alvarez.

'Tremendous' force

Susan Hutchison, an attorney representing Van Hooser, who lives in Arlington, said her client's doctors were shocked when they saw the ruptured breast implant and the other injuries.

"They hadn't seen anything like it," she said. "She was told that it would take a tremendous amount of force for that to happen," (for an implant to rupture.)

Hutchison said she requested a copy of the patrol car's dash-cam video of the arrest, but was told that Pantego saves its videos for only 90 days.

"Alvarez violated Van Hooser's right to be free from unreasonable seizure of her person when Alvarez unjustifiably used force excessive to the need in the arrest of Van Hooser. Alvarez's actions were objectively unreasonable and violated Van Hooser's rights to life and the integrity of her person," the lawsuit states

Medical condition

The suit describes what Van Hooser contends was a bogus traffic stop.

Van Hooser said that she was initially stopped for not having her headlights on, although she says they were on and working.

Then, as Alvarez checked her license and insurance, Van Hooser told him that she had an outstanding warrant but had hired an attorney to take care of it. Alvarez went back to his squad car and then returned and told Van Hooser to get out of her car.

Alvarez handcuffed Van Hooser and put her in his squad car. She told Alvarez and another officer who is not named in the lawsuit that she was in pain and losing feeling in her arms. She sat in the squad car while Alvarez and the other officer searched her car.

When the other officer returned to the squad car, she told him that she had had spinal surgery in 2008 that limited the range of motion in her back and neck. The second officer told Alvarez that because of Van Hooser's medical condition he needed to remove the handcuffs. Alvarez didn't do so.

When Van Hooser was booked into jail, she asked Alvarez for an aspirin and he refused to give her one. Alvarez told Van Hooser to carry a heavy mattress to her jail cell.

The suit accuses the town of Pantego and Griffith of not providing proper training and supervision of Alvarez.

"This failure to supervise was deliberately indifferent to Van Hooser's constitutional rights because proper training and/or supervision would ensure that Van Hooser would be free from undue, unreasonable and excessive force."

Elizabeth Campbell,

Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/2012/10...#storylink=cpy

[Sean88gt]

What a prick.

[Pro88LX]

fucking dick cops.

[lowthreeohz]

yeek.

[Junioropolous07]

Well if the "officers always conduct themselves in a reasonable manner", none of this would've happened.

[CJ]

She could also have been a huge argumentative bitch. Seems like there is another side to this. Must see video.

[Butch]

I think we're going to need to see before and after pictures of said breast before any reasonable decision can be forthcoming.

[mikec]

But they "lost" the video. Request for it came after the 90 day retention period. How convenient!

And that with fake tits wouldn't be so bad. Bet there are better pictures out there...

[JimD]

if anymore info on this story comes out someone please keep me abreast of the situation.

lol!

[John -- '02 HAWK]

I have a hard time believing the story that the implant ruptured from what her attorney claimed on TV last night