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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.
Gravitycollapse
(8,155 posts)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.
Niceguy1
(2,467 posts)to prevent exploitation of minors
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haele
(12,660 posts)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)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.