Stormy Daniels' arrest at strip club was improper: Police

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Stormy Daniels' arrest at strip club was improper: Police

By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS, ASSOCIATED PRESS COLUMBUS, Ohio — Mar 8, 2019, 4:56 PM ET

The 2018 arrest of Stormy Daniels at a Columbus strip club was improper but not planned ahead of time or politically motivated, according to an internal police department review released Friday.

The investigation looked into allegations that police officers who support Republican President Donald Trump conspired to retaliate against the porn actress over her claims she had sex with Trump before he became president.

Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, was arrested in July on suspicion of inappropriately touching an undercover officer. Prosecutors dropped charges hours later, saying the law cited in Daniels' arrest applied only to those who regularly performed at the club.

Officers who went to Sirens strip club that night were targeting the club and not Daniels as part of an ongoing investigation into alleged illegal activity, according to the head of the city vice squad. Those alleged activities including human trafficking, underage drinking and drug dealing, the report said.

But the investigation that night shifted to a narrower investigation of alleged illegal touching of customers by dancers, according to the report.

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1. So they abandoned a long-term investigation to arrest stormy on a flimsy charge

And we're supposed to think it wasn't politically motivated? I'll buy "not planned in advance," fine.

But the fact that they were already investigating the club for things including human trafficking and then decided to abandon it just so they could arrest stormy for something as lame as touching a customer, that makes it sound *more* like it was politically motivated.

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2. lol oh sure, it wasn't planned...

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3. The INTERNAL investigation might have concluded it was not pre-planned, but I thought I've

seem articles with information which says otherwise. Maybe a jury would conclude differently than the cops' own department. I hope she has a non-Avenatti attorney pursue this.

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4. K&R for, *GO* Stormy!1