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Four Hazel Park policemen are under internal affairs investigation after a traffic stop misconduct claim, the department's chief tells MLIve.
Two women say officers told them to lift their shirts and bras and shake their breasts, reports Gus Burns, who brought the case to Chief Martin Barner's attention by requesting a comment Monday. Burns writes:
Robert M. Giroux of Southfield-based Giroux Ratton law firm on Friday filed a federal civil lawsuit against Hazel Park Police Officer Ryan McCabe and three unidentified officers allegedly also involved the incident.
The lawsuit says at least one of the officers involved used a cell phone to record the women while they were exposed. . . .
Hazel Park police pulled over a northbound Chevrolet Tahoe on I-75, north of Eight Mile Road about 2 a.m. June 5, according to the lawsuit.
Inside were the two plaintiffs -- a Berkley woman in the back seat and a Shelby Township woman driving -- and a man in the front passenger seat.
Police stopped the SUV for illegally changing lanes, according to the lawsuit.
District Court records shows the women weren't arrested or ticketed, MLive says.
The man was charged with felony possession of cocaine under 25 grams.
Hazel Park officers don;t have body cameras or dashboard video cameras, the chief tells Burns.
