http://www.cincypost.com/news/toilet083000.html
C I N N A T I P O S T
Woman protests
restroom arrest
By Kimball Perry, Post staff
reporter
Police Specialist Charles Taber
is known as one of Cincinnati's
finest - except at the Hamilton
County Courthouse where he
arrested a female custodian
who refused to let him use a
closed bathroom.
Sheila Williams, 28, was
arrested Aug. 21 by Taber -
who was not in uniform and
didn't immediately identify
himself as a police officer - and
charged with disorderly
conduct.
''He's just a bully with a
badge,'' said John Burlew,
attorney for Ms. Williams.
''No comment,'' Taber, a
District Four officer, said
Tuesday.
Ms. Williams - who has been
employed by Hamilton
County for 14 months - was in
a men's bathroom Aug. 21
cleaning the toilets with two
probationers helping her as
part of their community
service.
Immediately outside was a
bright yellow sign indicating
the bathroom was closed.
Taber came in, Burlew said,
and tried to enter a stall. Ms.
Williams told him he couldn't
use the bathroom and gave
him directions to other
bathrooms.
Taber - who still hadn't
identified himself as a police
officer - tried to sit down in
the stall.
Ms. Williams' version of the
story, Burlew said, details how
she got on her two-way radio
to ask for assistance from a
Hamilton County Sheriff's
deputy and went into the
courtroom of Common Pleas
Court Judge Thomas Crush to
ask for help.
Taber then started to leave, so
Ms. Williams followed him.
When a deputy arrived, Taber
still wouldn't give his name,
merely opening his jacket to
reveal a badge and gun.
Taber, though, says in his
affidavit and other police
documents he filed that day
that he arrested Ms. Williams
after she created ''alarm'' in the
bathroom.
She ''engaged in violent
behavior, challenging PS Taber
under which circumstances
such conduct was likely to
provoke a violent response,''
Taber wrote.
She followed Taber, still
unaware that he was a police
officer, to the second-floor
security center. Taber asked
one of the deputies for
handcuffs and arrested Ms.
Williams. She was held for an
hour and 15 minutes, Burlew
said, as the charges were being
processed.
She faces up to 30 days in jail
for the fourth-degree
misdemeanor when her case
comes to court Sept. 7.
Publication date: 08-30-00
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