Police are generally allowed to exercise their own discretion about when to enforce the law and they're never really in trouble for it. At most sometimes a judge will alter that law if they determine it's being applied in a biased manner. (Not to just bring it back to NYC again, but laws about drinking in public here were modified explicitly because police were almost exclusively ticketing people of color for drinking on their own building's stoop.) But that has to be challenged in court first, which might get that particular person out of the fine as well. Have to assume that will be a part of the approach here, but the police probably won't face any consequences.
Doesn't sound that smart to be honest. The way it is written just seems weird to me.The opposite, it's when you allow, as the performer, a customer to touch you.
It's all in the article how the law is set up
Why are they undercover in a strip club? o.OThe official complaint talks about multiple undercover officers being touched during the performance. I'm assuming the breasts in face part.
The undercover cop posing as a customer.
Probably because Stormy was performing lol. Otherwise, it's an excuse to hang out in a strip club on the taxpayers' dime while boosting their numbers afterwards.Doesn't sound that smart to be honest. The way it is written just seems weird to me.
Why are they undercover in a strip club? o.O
"Alright everyone, we're gonna need someone to work undercover at the local strip club. Now, you may get boobies in your face or get touched in your genitalia, so this is gonna be a hard assignment. Do we have any volunteers?"
Yeah that's the other dynamic to all of this, this law is incredibly sexist.Arresting a woman for being touched, fuck everything about this holy shit
Yeah that's the other dynamic to all of this, this law is incredibly sexist.
I mean........the law is ostensibly in place to protect performers from being assaulted by patrons. I dunno if I'd call it a sexist law.
If this was setup, Stormy's going to get out pretty easily. Ohio has some pretty specific laws about entrapment of any kind, and this would easily fall under the 'not acceptable' part.
Probably, yeah... . Obviously they were there "randomly" for an "inspection". XDProbably because Stormy was performing lol. Otherwise, it's an excuse to hang out in a strip club on the taxpayers' dime while boosting their numbers afterwards.
Unless I'm misunderstanding, the law appears to punish the woman for allowing herself to be touched. How is that protection exactly? Is it just sometimes applied the other way?
No, the law is punishing the performer. Hence why Stormy was arrested for it.I mean........the law is ostensibly in place to protect performers from being assaulted by patrons. I dunno if I'd call it a sexist law.
Yep, I wasn't thinking about it. DisregardNo, the law is punishing the performer. Hence why Stormy was arrested for it.
Doesnt it depend on the context in which she was touched? Like if the undercover cop went up to her, grabbed her boob, and then arrested her for illegal physical contact in a strip club, wouldnt that qualify as entrapment?Except this isn't entrapment.
Entrapment is when law enforcement entices/coerces someone to do something they wouldn't normally do. This was an undercover operation, and probably perfectly legal.
If, for example, cops had called her up, and said "Hey, if you don't go to this strip club and get touchy feely with patrons who approach you, we're going to hurt your family," and then she did it and was arrested for it, THAT would be entrapment.
An Ohio strip club law prohibits patrons from touching a nude or seminude dancer unless the patron is a member of the dancer's immediate family.
Ah, I admit I assumed this was like other versions I'd seen where it's more targeted at the men. Guess that makes sense considering SHE was the one arrested. Which is stupid.
if only those undercover cops were her family!
Sounds like Trump himself is a frequent Ohio Stripclub patron.
This actually brings up an interesting question though. What if they were shooting a pornographic film in a strip club? Seems like this law makes it illegal for you to do so.
Your post makes the persecution of her and other strippers look even more stupid. "We like boobies of good looking women in our faces but will still drag you in front of a judge.""Alright everyone, we're gonna need someone to work undercover at the local strip club. Now, you may get boobies in your face or get touched in your genitalia, so this is gonna be a hard assignment. Do we have any volunteers?"
*Everyone raises hand*
It was satire. That is all. Please don't read any further into it.Your post makes the persecution of her and other strippers look even more stupid. "We like boobies of good looking women in our faces but will still drag you in front of a judge."
Shit like this, and Jim Jordan make me wonder if it's true what the Internet Today (former ETC, former Machinima ETC) boys say, that Ohio is the "Florida of the North"?
Doesnt it depend on the context in which she was touched? Like if the undercover cop went up to her, grabbed her boob, and then arrested her for illegal physical contact in a strip club, wouldnt that qualify as entrapment?
Hm, alright.Sure, one might be able to make a case for that. But the report stated that she made her way over to the detectives, leaned over, grabbed their faces, and put their faces between her breasts. Also states that she fondled a third officer's buttocks and breasts.
I'd be VERY surprised if there isn't video of the event, and not even Avenatti is calling it entrapment, so I highly doubt it.
I am sure it contains some truth just like my post did.It was satire. That is all. Please don't read any further into it.
Probably not that far off though. It gets even sleazier, like in this Seatle example:It was satire. That is all. Please don't read any further into it.
I was making a jest at how goofy it is to be putting undercover cops in a strip club, in the hopes of implicating a dancer. It's such a ridiculous concept, to be honest. My apologies if it came off in the wrong way.
Probably not that far off though. It gets even sleazier, like in this Seatle example:
https://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/How-far-is-too-far-for-vice-cops-patrolling-1237076.php
Gropping, getting repeated lap dances to "test" the stripper...
From a CNN Article:
Under Ohio law, an employee who regularly appears nude or seminude is prohibited from touching patrons on the premises of a sexually oriented business -- unless it's a family member.
It is all in good fun and I didn't take your post the wrong way because I know that it is probably 50% true if what we have seen of the police force and general psychology is to believed. Therefore don't take my posts as an attack on you or your posts. I simply grabbed it up and played on it. =)I was making a jest at how goofy it is to be putting undercover cops in a strip club, in the hopes of implicating a dancer. It's such a ridiculous concept, to be honest. My apologies if it came off in the wrong way.
In a forum so against bullying of any group these kinds of posts shouldn't be allowed.
Florida takes a lot of grief on here so Ohio should be able to take it as well. Suck it up.In a forum so against bullying of any group these kinds of posts shouldn't be allowed.
Florida takes a lot of grief on here so Ohio should be able to take it as well. Suck it up.
Its not attacking a group of people but the legislation, police force and state government that would allow this to happen.I'm not from ohio, no stakes in this battle. Just seems like an unecessary attack on an entire group of people based on weak standing, something this place has been great about going after
"Officer Mary did put both hands on officers buttocks, both hands on officers breast, then put her breast in officers face"
That complaint makes it sound like Officer Mary needs to be arrested for anatomical touching of herself.
Off topic, but the reason Florida gets so much attention is that their arrest records are free to access and open to anyone, so when it's a slow news day media will trawl Florida's arrest records to see if anything bizarre happened. Crazy things happen everywhere in this country, but Florida specifically gets reported on because it's easier to report on this stuff from Florida than most other states.Florida takes a lot of grief on here so Ohio should be able to take it as well. Suck it up.
The article only says it was an "act that she performed several times in strip clubs".
I'm guessing this is some local law that has to do with lap dances or something. IIRC, different states have different laws on nudity and whatever. I never knew they arrested for it.