Do I have a case here???
My girlfriend was walking to a friends house last night and had a bottle of coke with some rum in it. A cop sees her with it and slams her up against the cop car asking about the bottle. She told him it had rum in it and he arrested her for open container and never read her her rights. She is a small girl and they tightened the hand cuffs incredibly tight. They next strip searched her to try to find anything else on her which there was absolutly not. They started asking her all these crazy questions and then asked her if she had a tattoo. She responded "no" and they asked her again, she responded "no sir" and they then STRIP searched her AGAIN!!! Why would it even matter if she had one in the first place???? She was merely walking to a friends house to have a drink. How is the bottle any different from carrying a 6 pack?? She now has a criminal record for being arrested and she was in her senior year at college and her dream was to be a teacher. What should we do? Any way we could sue them? Please help.
My girlfriend was walking to a friends house last night and had a bottle of coke with some rum in it. A cop sees her with it and slams her up against the cop car asking about the bottle. She told him it had rum in it and he arrested her for open container and never read her her rights. She is a small girl and they tightened the hand cuffs incredibly tight. They next strip searched her to try to find anything else on her which there was absolutly not. They started asking her all these crazy questions and then asked her if she had a tattoo. She responded "no" and they asked her again, she responded "no sir" and they then STRIP searched her AGAIN!!! Why would it even matter if she had one in the first place???? She was merely walking to a friends house to have a drink. How is the bottle any different from carrying a 6 pack?? She now has a criminal record for being arrested and she was in her senior year at college and her dream was to be a teacher. What should we do? Any way we could sue them? Please help.