Posted on 11/05/2013 12:52:27 PM PST by servo1969
When New Mexico police stopped a local driver for committing a minor moving violation, they decided to check whether he was carrying drugs in his anus.
So they procured a warrant, drove him to two different hospitals, forced him to endure eight medical procedures — including an invasive colonoscopy — and stuck him with the bill.
No drugs were found.
According to medical records, police reports and a federal lawsuit obtained by KOB-TV, police held Eckert until they were able to procure a warrant from a judge to search the man’s anal cavity. They then drove him to a nearby hospital and instructed doctors to examine his anus.
Doctors at Members Memorial Hospital refused to cooperate, however, telling officers that the search would be unethical.
Deming Police then took Eckert to Gila Regional Medical Center in Silver City. This time, Eckert wasn’t so lucky.
Medical officials stuck their fingers inside Eckert’s rectum, but found no drugs. An enema was next. When that didn’t produce the drugs, they gave Eckert two more. He was forced to defecate in front of the medical officials and police, but still, no drugs were found.
Eckert was then prepped for another operation. Doctors knocked him out and gave him a colonoscopy — an invasive medical procedure that involves sticking a tube up the patient’s rectum, anus, colon and intestine.
Before the ordeal was over, Eckert had suffered through eight medical procedures. He objected to each and every one.
Adding insult to injury, the hospital stuck Eckert with the bill, and has threatened to take him to court to pay it.
Adding further insult to injury, the warrant had expired by the time doctors performed the procedures, and the warrant only ever covered procedures in Luna County. Gila Regional is in Grant County.
Eckert has filed suit against the individual police officers who tormented him, the police department and the hospital.
“The thought that they could do this to a man in our country is terrifying,” said Shannon Kennedy, Eckert’s attorney, in a statement to KOB-TV. “This is something out of a science fiction film. Anal probing by government officials and public employees?”
The local news channel reached out to the Deming Police Chief Brandon Gigante, who referred questions about the incident to an attorney. However, he did maintain that his officers always follow proper protocol.
Getting?
“even if they couldn’t get you in PRISON for fleeing custody, they could mess your life and finances up pretty good”
These are small town cops we’re talking about here, not the Feds. They can’t do crap to me unless I stray back into their little fiefdom.
The Deming Hospital refused to be a part of this. The Nazi medical personnel were attached to the Gila Medical Center in Silver City.
Correct. The City of Demming’s liability for this stems from the actions of their LEOs, not from the Hospital (in another county) that did the deed. The taxpayers of both jurisdictions should be pretty peeved about what’s to come.
Didn’t mean to imply I thought the Hospital was in Deming.
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