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jsr

(7,712 posts)
Tue Mar 11, 2014, 01:21 AM Mar 2014

San Diego police raid strip club, photograph strippers

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/03/10/san-diego-police-raid-strip-club-photograph-strippers/?hpid=z3
http://www.10news.com/news/questions-raised-after-officers-raid-kearny-mesa-strip-club-03072014

Questions raised after officers swarm Kearny Mesa strip club
By Matt Mendes

SAN DIEGO - A manager at Cheetahs strip club says his dancers felt violated by police who photographed them almost nude.

The mood at the strip club in Kearny Mesa quickly turned intense Thursday night when 10 officers swarmed the building with guns and bulletproof vests, interrupting business for a couple of hours.

"I didn't know if it was a bank robbery or serial killer on the loose the way they had come in like that," said manager Rich Buonantony.

"They asked us for our licenses and then took down our Social Security and had us line up in the back of the dressing rooms and take pictures," said stripper Katelynn Delorie.
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San Diego police raid strip club, photograph strippers (Original Post) jsr Mar 2014 OP
This is a good example of how context of viewing and the viewers intent is important. Gravitycollapse Mar 2014 #1
sounds like they're doing enforcement for legal age Niceguy1 Mar 2014 #2
This message was self-deleted by its author Th1onein Mar 2014 #5
Bonnie Dumanis is feeling some heat. haele Mar 2014 #3
Big Government bluestateguy Mar 2014 #4

Gravitycollapse

(8,155 posts)
1. This is a good example of how context of viewing and the viewers intent is important.
Tue Mar 11, 2014, 01:23 AM
Mar 2014

Rather than simply the act of being viewed or allowing one's self to be viewed.

There will very likely be a few idiots who patron this thread arguing that they find it odd strippers could feel violated in such a way. But they will have missed the point by a large margin.

Response to Niceguy1 (Reply #2)

haele

(12,660 posts)
3. Bonnie Dumanis is feeling some heat.
Tue Mar 11, 2014, 01:35 AM
Mar 2014

Today I heard on the radio that SDPD is also going into massage parlors looking for "unlicensed" or uncertified masseuses who are also doubling their pay in these parlors as prostitutes. I'm thinking the two are related...perhaps attempting to find girls who are doing both?
FWIW, the few strippers I've actually met over the years were not prostitutes; they might have been using their looks to make extra money - or pay for bad habits - but they weren't dealing one on one with johns, and they made damn sure people who might have known they were dancing also knew they weren't having sex with customers. They were also married or had steady relationships.
Not saying there aren't some who also had jobs in an "escort" service, but that's the sample I knew personally. The apartment complex I had been living at around that time was full of artists, entertainers, and eccentrics - and that included people in the more adult entertainment field.

Haele

bluestateguy

(44,173 posts)
4. Big Government
Tue Mar 11, 2014, 01:54 AM
Mar 2014

These Keystone Cops were probably more threatening and more intimidating to the strippers than any of the creepo customers who come int their on a daily basis.

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