Fremont County paid the large sum last week to Carolyn O’Neal after she sued the sheriff’s office for unlawfully arresting her while she was naked inside her apartment in May 2014. The Deputies had responded due to concerns she might harm herself, the Denver Post reported. O’Neal told three responding male deputies she wasn’t going to hurt herself and was naked while preparing a bath but the officers used a key to enter her apartment and tossed her onto a bed before arresting her, the newspaper reported. O’Neal was still naked when she was taken to jail, where she was put in a restraint chair for several hours. Deputies also twice used a Taser on the woman despite her arms and legs being restrained at the time and being forced to wear a spit mask, according to the report. “This was an outrageous case,” O’Neal’s attorney, David Lane, told the Denver Post on Sunday. “Law enforcement officers who believed they were above the law got smacked down hard by a jury. And unfortunately, this cos...
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