Emails suggest Columbus, Ohio police may have targeted Stormy Daniels
July 29, 2018PNT Commentary: Threat of arrest is one of the primary ways sex workers of all types find themselves being intimidated into silence about abusive situations and controlled by others they may encounter (clients, agents, managers, pimps, etc).
via CNN.com : A Columbus, Ohio, vice officer researched Stormy Daniels in the days before she took part in arresting Daniels at a strip club earlier this month. The officer was sending herself emails that included Daniels’ photos, a video of her and a map with the location of the strip club where she was performing.
The emails, obtained by CNN through open records laws, suggest Daniels was targeted, which contradicts a statement by the Columbus Police Department immediately after the arrest.Officer Shana Keckley used her personal e-mail account to send e-mail to her official police account two days before Daniels was arrested at the Sirens Strip Club. Keckley took part in the raid and had her head between Daniels’ breasts at the club, according to court documents. She sent emails to colleagues seemingly giddy about the arrest after the fact. Keckley was one of two officers who signed statements saying their faces were “pushed” between Daniels’ breasts.
“Your welcome!!!!….I work Vice now!!! :D…. Thank me in person later,” Keckley wrote to a fellow officer at 3:50 in the morning after the July 12 arrest. Attached to that email was the legal complaint against Daniels that had been filed in Franklin County Municipal Court.
Immediately after the arrest, Columbus police suggested that Daniels was caught in a larger sting operation that was part of a “long-term investigation into allegations of human trafficking, prostitution, & other vice related violations,” according to a statement.
But the emails sent by Keckley suggest that police had knowledge Daniels was to appear at the club days prior to her arrest. Charges were dropped against Daniels just 12 hours after her arrest. Police Chief Kim Jacobs later said,”… officers were well within their area of responsibility when taking law enforcement action. Nevertheless, a mistake was made, and I take full responsibility.”
Daniels alleges she had an affair with President Donald Trump in 2006. The White House has said Trump denies an affair happened.
