Cop 'made me walk naked' in snow
2001-01-03 18:08
New York - A woman in suburban New York says a policeman ordered her to strip and made her walk home naked in a blizzard after he stopped her for allegedly driving drunk on New Year's Eve, according to a published report on Wednesday.
The report in The New York Post said Angelina Torres, 27, charged
that the officer told her he was making her walk the four blocks to her home on Long Island wearing only her panties and high-heel
shoes "to teach me a lesson".
"It was the most humiliating experience of my life," said Torres, a mother of three. "I was crying and I was scared. I was freezing cold.
"He watched me walk all the way home, wearing pretty much nothing. I felt so ashamed. If he thought I was drunk, he should have arrested me."
Torres said she was returning home from a bar at 2:30am on January 1, when she pulled over to the side of the road to cry over an argument she had just had with her boyfriend, whom she left at the bar.
Moments later, a policeman approached her BMW and gave her a
breathalyser test, which she said she passed.
Torres said she had a few sips of champagne - and an Absolut with
cranberry drink.
"I wasn't drunk," she said. "I barely had anything to drink."
She said the cop gave her two more sobriety tests until she failed.
"He told me to get undressed. I asked him why. He said, 'You're
going to walk home to learn your lesson'."
The Post said Torres is suing Suffolk County for $15 million.
A spokesperson for the Suffolk County Police Department was quoted as saying the alleged incident is under investigation "and we're taking it very seriously". - Sapa-DPA
- SAPA