Four RCMP officers and three civilian staff members at a police jail in B.C. are under a criminal investigation for allegedly watching a video feed of two female inmates having sex in a cell and doing nothing to stop it.
Spokesman Inspector Tim Shields said the concern centres around the fact that both women had been arrested for public intoxication and were in a cell commonly referred to as the “drunk tank” at the time.
The Mounties issued a news release Tuesday detailing the allegations that, for seven minutes on Aug. 18, four RCMP officers, two civilian cell guards and a civilian watch clerk – all of them men – watched the two women engage in what appeared to be consensual sex without intervening.
The women had been arrested in two unrelated incidents for causing a disturbance and being drunk in public and were being held in a cell that is monitored by closed-circuit video, Insp. Shields said.
They're saying the officers are being suspended mostly because there were concerns regarding 'consent', since either prisoner could have been drunk... but still.
I don't see what the big hub bub is. Really I don't.
I read this story on the subway this morning. Crazy story. I side with the cops.