A woman who claims her rights were violated by Mesa police during a search after her arrest on assault charges is headed to federal court.
The issue was removal of body piercing jewelry. Griffin removed her tongue and nose rings, but said only a professional should remove the breast rings.

This conflicted with police policy, which requires that all inmate property be confiscated for the safety of officers and inmates.

Detention Officer Jennifer Gneck removed the rings with pliers as Griffin stood before a bathroom wall, with male officers watching and with her back to taunting male inmates.

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The short, troubled life of a drug-dealing Harlem midget came to a violent end yesterday when he was gunned down while guzzling beer and shooting dice outside a housing project.Cops found a huge .380-caliber pistol in the waistband of little person Joshua Agard, 18, along with 15 vials of crack that he was peddling while hanging out in a courtyard with pal Manuel Zabater, who was also killed in the attack.

“how much could he get into?” said distraught neighbor Debra Daniels, 61. “He was a good person. I loved him.”

Though Agard was just 3 feet tall, he had a police record a mile long. So far this year, he had been busted twice, once on assault charges for throwing a bottle at a man’s head and once for trespassing when he was caught inside 425 E. 105th St. He also had two other arrests, cops said.

The final, fatal trouble for Agard came at about 4:30 a.m. yesterday while he and Zabater, beers in hand, were in the courtyard of the East River Houses project on East 105th Street.

According to cops, three or four black males approached and, without saying a word, blasted Agard several times.

Witnesses told The Post that the project grounds were clear of the usual cast of thugs at the time of the shooting, indicating that many knew the hit would be going down.

As rounds tore through the tiny target’s head and torso, Zabater committed an act of bravery when he rushed to his friend’s side and tried to pull him to cover, witnesses said. That’s when Zabater – who was on parole for drugs – was hit twice in the torso.

He should have stuck with porn! Ha!

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