Colorado Woman Receives $2.4M From County After Being Wrongly Arrested While Naked
Carolyn O’Neal, a Colorado woman, has won a $2.4 million settlement from Fremont County after being wrongly arrested while naked inside her apartment in 2014.
While residing at a sober living facility, O’Neal was unlawfully apprehended as she was preparing a bath. It’s reported that officers were carrying out a welfare check and used a key to enter her apartment, despite her responding to male deputies that she wasn’t going to hurt herself.
Additionally, during the arrest, O’Neal was still naked while being carted off to jail, where she was put in a restraint chair for several hours. While in restraints, she was also tased twice and forced to wear a spit mask. After the incident, O’Neal sued the department, and recently, a jury ruled in her favor and awarded her $3.6 million last year, but the amount was later reduced by a federal judge to roughly $2.1 million, prompting appeals and settling at $2.4 million.
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