Cesilee Dean knows some folks will say she had it coming. She bared her breasts in public and got ticketed. Boo blanking hoo.


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But while Dean does plan to fight her citation in court, this is not why she's complaining. She's upset because, of the thousands of people who saw her that day, "a police officer was the only one who violated me." On June 19 Dean, 27, took part in the World Naked Bike Ride in Madison. Dozens of these pro-bike, pro-body events have been held in cities throughout the world, without incident. But in schoolmarmy Madison it drew a vigorous police response, including 10 $429 disorderly conduct citations (see online story, 6/28/10). Dean, a waitress in downtown Madison, says organizers stated that police would not hassle bicyclists whose breasts and nipples were obscured by body paint, as hers were. (Ald. Mike Verveer says a police official made a similar statement to a city committee days before the event.) Dean also believed her underwear had her covered, pun intended, when police warned participants that anyone displaying genitalia risked fines: "I was in full compliance." And then, she relates, she felt a sudden jolt as an officer grabbed her handlebars and "forcefully yanked" her off the bike and hauled her to his squad. Dean's boyfriend, Jason Shaw, says he told the officer, Rene Gonzalez, to stop being so aggressive, as Dean was not resisting, whereupon he was threatened with arrest. Dean and Shaw made these claims in a formal complaint against Gonzalez last week. Event participant Mackenzie Dunn, who didn't know the couple, submitted a witness statement saying "the overtly forceful apprehension of a calm, peaceful protester who was not involved in any sort of violence or aggression...was very disturbing."

Bad Cop: Madison cop allegedly refused woman's request for shirt to cover herself at World Naked Bike Ride

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