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Cindy Sheehan Claiming Police Brutality
"Peace mom" Cindy Sheehan is so angry that she wasn't allowed to disrupt last night's State of the Union address, that she intends to file a lawsuit claiming she was brutalized by Capitol Hill Police who suppressed her first amendment freedoms. "I have the bruises and muscle spasms to prove it," Sheehan said, in a message posted to several left-wing Web sites after she was arrested and then released on her own recognizance. Sheehan also contends she suffered emotional trauma, complaining, "I am so upset and sore it is hard to think straight." The Bush-bashing "Gold-Star" mom says she wants to take legal action, announcing: "I have some lawyers looking into filing a First Amendment lawsuit against the government for what happened tonight. I will file it. It is time to take our freedoms and our country back."
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In her message Sheehan detailed the abuse by one security guard who hauled her off after she unzipped her jacked to display a T-shirt decrying the number of Iraq war dead. "[A Capitol Police] officer ran over to me, hauled me out of my seat and roughly [with my hands behind my back], shoved me up the stairs," she said. The anti-war mom recalled complaining as she was being hustled out of the building, "I'm going, do you have to be so rough?" Sheehan said that after the officer was informed that she was a big celebrity, the abusive treatment stopped. "You didn't care about being careful when you were dragging me up the other steps," she recalled telling the Capitol guard.
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