![]() ![]() The allegations involving the secret video recording date back at least several years, she said. She said about 15 of the 70 females she represents were minors during their time at the academy. Toriseva said her office plans to file additional lawsuits that will include allegations of sexual and physical assaults against women at the State Police. We should stand rock solid behind them and we’ll clean up the bad stuff.” ![]() “These people are doing good work, and they’re doing good work every day. “They don’t need to have rocks thrown at them,” Justice said. Justice vowed to weed out those responsible for wrongdoing and urged the public to support the State Police. “Maybe there’s no way to recover evidence, but we ought to try… because we’re absolutely better than this,” said Justice, referring to evidence that was allegedly destroyed. The state Homeland Security Department and the state police launched separate investigations into the matter. Toriseva said she believes others had to be involved and accused officials of “blaming somebody who can’t speak for themselves.” Justice replaced the head of the State Police and blamed a high-ranking academy official who died in 2016. The complaint also said the plaintiff “will likely never know with certainty whether the recordings of her in the female shower and locker facilities … still exist, who has those recordings, who has viewed those recordings, and whether they will ever be released to the public and/or posted online.” The lawsuit accused members of the State Police of “knowingly, wantonly and intentionally” destroying evidence of the video recordings. “There was three troopers that found a thumb drive and absolutely from that they found the video, and then from what I understand one, if not all, you know, immediately jerked the thumb drive out and threw it on the floor and started stomping on it… You can’t make this stuff up,” Justice told reporters at the time, shaking his head in disbelief. In March, Justice publicly admitted the use of the camera and hard drive and ordered an investigation. ![]() The use of a hidden video camera came to light after anonymous letters to the governor’s office and other state officials accused police brass of widespread misconduct, including the destruction of the hidden camera and a hard drive containing hours of video showing female students and troopers using the shower and locker facilities. Governor pledges to ‘clean up the bad stuff’ ![]()
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