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Meet the Woman Who Was Assaulted by a Cop For Taking Tylenol
Robin Marty
Care2
Standard procedure, or excessive force? That’s the question being asked in Ohio, where an officer assaulted a woman in a waiting area, claiming that she was violating custody rules because she took a dose of painkiller for an infected tooth. The graphic, disturbing video of the room and her resulting hospital visit has many wondering if the police officer was really just doing his job, or if his violent attack was unjustified.
According to Phil Trexler of the Beacon Journal, 35-year-old mother of three Siobhan Householder was in a holding room waiting while a arrest warrant was being lifted when she reached into her purse and took a dose of prescription Tylenol, then went to take one additional pill when she was stopped by Deputy Eric Vaughan. Householder told the reporter that Vaughan demanded she spit out the medication, and she tried to tell him she wasn’t able to because she had already swallowed it, when Vaughan launched himself at her, physically restraining her on the floor as he attempted to get her mouth open.
Video of the event shows Vaughan pulling her hair, cramming his fingers in her mouth, and trying to pry her jaw open. “He was pulling down on my bottom lip and squeezing my face at the same time,” she told the Journal Beacon. “He basically pulled my lip away from my teeth.”
By the end of the scene Householder was handcuffed in a scrum of four officers, and according to reports she was treated in the room by paramedics. Later she was taken to a hospital, and also charged with “resisting arrest and obstructing official business.”
Source: http://rinf.com/alt-news/breaking-news/meet-woman-assaulted-cop-taking-tylenol/
