![]() ![]() Meanwhile, a pair of teenagers in hoodies waited for them to go to bed and stop being annoying so they could break in and steal stuff. They moved from arguing about Brexit and racists over wine to negotiating marital tensions between hot couple hosts Sam (Tom Meeten) and Becca (Elaine Cassidy) over coke. It was hard to know if we were meant to laugh or hate them so hard on sight that we would start hoping that it was the setting for a mass poisoning and the hysterical woman had simply miscounted her corpses. It was partly the opening dinner party scene, in which we were introduced to a collection of people implausibly yet unimaginatively awful. And then we flashed back to the beginning of the evening and the programme proper began and felt … very different. The initial setup was suspenseful enough: a woman’s hysterical call to the emergency services and a tumbling, semi-coherent account of an intruder, a stabbing, her husband, someone dead, a plea for an ambulance, playing over scenes of a dark, threatening garden whose thick foliage could hide a million horrors. I thought of Striptease often as Intruder, Channel 5’s new four-part drama, unfolded – stripped (I promise no pun was intended) across the week. Test audiences laughed at so many scenes it was quickly recut and issued as a comedy. ![]() ![]() It was intended as a gritty look at one woman’s fight to survive desertion by her husband and raise her child alone by any means necessary and finding empowerment through one of the few avenues The Patriarchy lets women earn an independent living – stripping. Police officers are protected by expansive qualified immunity, which makes holding police accountable for civil rights violations an uphill battle.Do you remember that Demi Moore film Striptease? It was 300 years ago, in 1996, so you may not. While Smith's tasing and arrest are outrageous, it's unclear whether his lawsuit will succeed. "I don't think it would have went down in this manner if I was not African American." "I believe there was a racial component to this whole situation, how the police treated me, how everything was executed," Smith told the Los Angeles Times. The lawsuit alleges that the officers' actions violated Smith's First, Fourth, and 14th Amendment rights and asks for damages to cover medical expenses and attorney's fees, as well as special damages for the emotional suffering the ordeal inflicted on Smith. "This incident and injury occurred only because Defendant Doe Officer Guillen and other individual and Doe defendant LAPD officers…failed to carefully and thoroughly investigate the facts leading to Mr. Smith endured at the hands of Defendant Doe Officer Guillen and other Defendant Doe LAPD officers remains to this day," the complaint states. "The physical pain, emotional distress and embarrassment that Mr. Outside, a small crowd of Smith's neighbors had gathered, and several told the officers that they "had arrested the wrong person" and that Smith "lived there." Still, the officers placed Smith in the patrol car and closed the door. Several LAPD officers then handcuffed Smith and walked him out to a patrol car. According to a Los Angeles Times interview with Smith, when police tased him, the intruder used the opportunity to escape. Smith: 'Get on the ground!'" Smith protested saying, "I live here, I called 911!" LAPD officers subsequently tased Smith, striking him in the chest and back. According to the lawsuit, police "unholstered their taser guns, pointed them toward Mr. and entered through the back door of Smith's apartment. The intruder remained in the apartment while Smith called 911. According to the suit, when he entered his house around 12:30 a.m., he caught an intruder in the process of burglarizing his home. Smith had even been working on a documentary about police brutality when he had his own police encounter on October 13, 2021. Smith is an actor and filmmaker known for his appearances in The Purge and Snowfall. Smith, and acted pursuant to LAPD policies and practices that allow and encourage officers to over-react to black people, whom they wrongly assume to be criminals," the 24-page suit argues. Smith, who is black, has now filed a lawsuit against the officers, claiming that they racially profiled him and violated his civil rights. When the police arrived, they tased him instead of the intruder. Damien Smith says he came home one night in October 2021 to find an intruder burglarizing his house. ![]()
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