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G_j

(40,367 posts)
Thu Oct 20, 2016, 01:30 PM Oct 2016

Actress Shailene Woodley Strip-Searched After Her Arrest Protesting Dakota Pipeline

Actress Shailene Woodley Reveals She Was Strip-Searched After Her Arrest Protesting Dakota Pipeline

http://m.democracynow.org/web_exclusives/3041

Actress Shailene Woodley pleaded not guilty on charges related to the resistance to the $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline on Wednesday. She was arrested along with 27 others in North Dakota on October 10 during actions to mark Indigenous Peoples’ Day. Woodley was strip-searched and then put in an orange jump suit in the Morton County jail, which appears to be a common practice even for low-level misdemeanor charges. Woodley told Democracy Now!, "Never did it cross my mind that while trying to protect clean water, trying to ensure a future where our children have access to an element essential for human survival, would I be strip-searched. I was just shocked." Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Chair Dave Archambault II and others have also been strip-searched after being arrested for nonviolent civil disobedience against the pipeline.

For more information, read Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan’s new column: On Strip Searches and Press Freedom in North Dakota

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Actress Shailene Woodley Strip-Searched After Her Arrest Protesting Dakota Pipeline (Original Post) G_j Oct 2016 OP
They strip searched a Hollywood actress? Blue_Tires Oct 2016 #1
They appear to be 2naSalit Oct 2016 #2
everyone gets searched when they go to jail snooper2 Oct 2016 #3
not necessarily “squat and cough” G_j Oct 2016 #6
Hollywood actresses can buy guns and drugs too jmowreader Oct 2016 #4
I thought everyone was an 'actor' now ? Bonx Oct 2016 #5

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)
1. They strip searched a Hollywood actress?
Thu Oct 20, 2016, 01:47 PM
Oct 2016

Are those yokel cops trying to get sued back to the stone age?

2naSalit

(86,658 posts)
2. They appear to be
Thu Oct 20, 2016, 02:03 PM
Oct 2016

so backward that they may not know what they do is going to cost them in the long run.

G_j

(40,367 posts)
6. not necessarily “squat and cough”
Thu Oct 20, 2016, 04:24 PM
Oct 2016

Morton County Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier runs the jail in Mandan and is responsible for how people are processed there. As the protests have mounted during the past six months, Kirchmeier and the local prosecutors have been leveling more and more serious charges against the land and water protectors, with an increasing number of felony charges. More than 140 people have been arrested so far. Those we spoke to told us a shocking detail: When getting booked at the jail, they were all strip searched, forced to “squat and cough” to demonstrate they had nothing hidden in their rectums, then were put in orange jumpsuits. The treatment was the same for Chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Dave Archambault, to a pediatrician from the reservation, Dr. Sara Jumping Eagle, to actress Shailene Woodley,star of the films “Divergent” and “Snowden,” among others.

Bonx

(2,056 posts)
5. I thought everyone was an 'actor' now ?
Thu Oct 20, 2016, 03:58 PM
Oct 2016

And if it's common practice to strip search, why is there an outrage 'article' ?

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