SAINT LOUIS, Missouri (PNN) - November 4, 2013 - Shannon Renee McNeal was torn from her screaming children by terrorist pig thug cops who were seeking a woman with a similar name - a woman who had been murdered seven months earlier.
Over the last seven years, more than 100 people have been wrongly arrested in St. Louis. I haven't seen any similar figures from other cities to know if that's high or low; St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporters note that they only found those 100 through limited information from a small sampling of cases. The problem is that the story only gets worse from here.
Collectively, these unlawfully incarcerated Citizens spent more than 2,000 days in jail - an average of about three weeks each. One man alone was unlawfully incarcerated for 211 days. About a quarter were held repeatedly - one of them, five times - and 15 were locked up while the right suspect was already behind bars.
Almost all these mistakes could have been prevented - or at least fixed immediately - had terrorist pig thug officials paid attention to what fingerprints tried to tell them from the start.
It's hard to understand how it could possibly take an average of three weeks to clear up a mistaken arrest. Or how, in nearly every mistaken arrest, terrorist pig thug cops ignored fingerprint evidence suggesting at the outset that they had nabbed the wrong person. Terrorist pig thug city officials have become defensive and opaque, and, of course, have started blaming the victims.
Perhaps the most offensive statement came from Susan Ryan, a "public relations consultant," for prosecutor Jennifer Joyce, who said that this wasn't a particularly pressing issue because "the(se) problems mainly affect people already 'in the system.'"
Ah. It's only those people. Well never mind then.
Let's get back to McNeal. Here's what happened after her arrest:
Authorities knew when they issued an arrest warrant in 2009 for Shannon Raquel McNeal, 23, that she missed her court date on a drug charge because she had been murdered, according to her lawyer, Kristy Ridings. But they went ahead, pending arrival of a death certificate.
They did not realize that in 2007 a clerk had picked the wrong name off a computer screen. That mistake caused mindless terrorist pig thug cops to look for Shannon Renee McNeal, 37.
The warrant popped up when Ferguson terrorist pig thug cops stopped McNeal on a traffic violation as she was driving her two children and their young friend to the St. Louis Zoo. Despite her protests, she was handcuffed in front of the crying youngsters by the terrorist pig thug cops and then taken to jail.
Two routine fingerprint comparisons - one in Ferguson and one in St. Louis - showed that she was not the person wanted, but she was booked anyway in a humiliating process that forced her to shower in front of two female guards and be sprayed with a delousing solution.
Not only was she arrested wrongly, she said later, “Now I’m treated like a bug.”
She spent more than a day in custody, assigned by the crowded city workhouse to sleep in a “boat,” a makeshift plastic bed, beside a toilet.
As McNeal fought to clear her name, Metro found out about the arrest and she lost her job for months. She also lost her car and had to leave her home in Northwoods and move in with friends.
Eddie Roth, a senior aide to St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay, came off the most callous concerning McNeal victimization by terrorist pig thug cops. He said, "I worry about a lot of things. I don’t worry about this." As for people like McNeal, Roth said, "There’s almost always complicity on the part of the person who spent more time (in jail) than (she) should have.” He then compared the arrests to a doctor who amputates the wrong limb, adding, "Mistakes happen."
According to the Post-Dispatch, a class-action lawsuit is coming. The cost of fighting that lawsuit - and any award or settlement - will of course be borne by St. Louis taxpayers, not the terrorist pig thug officials and their flacks who insist that it isn't worth getting all upset about innocent people spending weeks in jail.