Anyhow, Rosa sued the Westville, NJ Police Department and two (2) of its officers back in 2011, claiming that the police would not allow her to use the bathroom after her March 2010 arrest and that they forcing her to drop her pants and pee in the cell. (Apparently she was nowhere near as happy as this “lady” about having to do so… and, as you will read, in the end neither was the police accountant.)
Rosa’s account of what happened at the police station conflicts with Officer DeNick’s, who reportedly stated that she had been handcuffed to a bench for the officers’ safety after she had entered the station yelling and screaming. Officer DeNick also denied that he or any other officers were present when Rosa urinated, claiming that he came in from another room to find her jeans, along with the bench and floor, wet. However, another man under arrest at the station, Sean Hunt, both contradicted Officer DeNick’s statements and supported Roas’s claim that she had behaved calmly for twenty (20) minutes at the station, the Courier Post reported. Although neither officers nor the department ever admitted any wrongdoing they reportedly settled the matter with Rosa for $180,000.00.
Memo to Law Enforcement: It’s so much easier (and cheaper) to get a female officer to take the female prisoner to the restroom…. Memo to the Folks: Civil Rights case take time, effort, energy, patience and a dedicated and committed lawyer, not to fail to mention that there are stringent rules and requirements for your case to even be filed, much less to survive a directed verdict or result in in windfall. That said, not withstanding her embarrassing mess, A) Rosa should be happy and B) The clean-up was pricey….
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