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Resident urges policy requiring same‑sex officers for frisks after two incidents described in public comment
Summary
A Kankakee resident told the City Council during public comment that two police stops he observed involved intrusive frisks of women and urged the city to adopt a policy that men frisk men and women frisk women.
Carl Aldridge, a Second Ward resident, told the City Council during public comment that he witnessed two traffic stops involving women that he described as excessively invasive and called for a city policy requiring same‑sex officers to perform frisks. “I’m requesting that with men, frisk men, and women, frisk women here in Kankakee,” Aldridge said, adding, “They went in between her legs and they did grapple her.”
Aldridge said the incidents included a stop of a woman he described as coming from the gym and a separate incident in which an officer used chemical spray and physical restraint after the woman asked repeatedly…
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