We citizens must be allowed to be equally armed with any weapons the government is willing to use against us.
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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.
Still, it’s a county hospital and I doubt that their malpractice insurance covers rape and conspiracy to commit rape.
I’d hate to be the taxpayers there. The essence of the crime occurred in their ER. If the doctors on staff at that hospital took the same stand as the staff at the other hospital, this would not have happened.
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So, he was a local resident too, but that didn’t stop me from sharing my xp in New Mexico.
I could have included the story ‘bout when I was pulled over by a female state trooper at a stop light on I40 in Winslow Arizona. There I was, standing on the corner of Winslow Arizona, it’s a girl my Lord in a Crown Vic Ford slowing down to write a ticket for me.
Or included a picture of the highway sign ‘666’ I lifted just outside of Gallup New Mexico.
Maybe he simply had to go poop at the time he was stopped. Police are getting very bizarre these days.
This is unbelievable. Even convicts suspected of swallowing drugs, or shoving them up their butt aren’t treated like this. Why they chose such invasive procedures is beyond me. They could have simply given him an x-ray, CAT scan, or MRI. I hope he gets millions for what they did to him.
But that would require ethics, and they were, evidently, ethically impaired.
He didn’t mouth off. He asked to leave, then refused to answer the questions of Officer Friendly. Officer found this disrespectful and wanted to teach the perp a lesson I guess.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/181730326/Traffic-Complaint-pdf
Hmmm...
Not quite a clever jingle yoyo...
That’s all fine.
But I want criminal charges for all involved, starting with the judge.
We citizens must be allowed to be equally armed with any weapons the government is willing to use against us.
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But these were ass-invading cops! They're more dangerous than normal cops.
Had this happened to me there would be a pile of corpses.
Sorry...I meant to write “knew this guy”. My iPad self corrects and often inserts the wrong word and I hit post accidentally.
And then they’d have a legit violation to hang you on, so they could haul you back in and enjoy tormenting you at leisure.
You don’t seriously think if they were willing to go this far, that they would just look at each other and shrug if the person were to abscond, do you?
Soon to be replicated in The United States of Obamaland.
“And then they’d have a legit violation to hang you on, so they could haul you back in and enjoy tormenting you at leisure.
You don’t seriously think if they were willing to go this far, that they would just look at each other and shrug if the person were to abscond, do you?”
What have they got me on? Failing to properly discharge myself from a hospital? The guy wasn’t under arrest, he wasn’t charged with a crime, so I don’t know how they could make a charge of fleeing custody stick.
Besides, even if they charge me with something, I would be out of their jurisdiction and they’d have to extradite me. Meaning my lawyer is now involved and fighting them every step of the way. I feel confident I would never get remanded back into their custody once it reached that point.
Now this story is featured on the Deming Newspaper website. It is also on Drudge.
I hope the members of the Deming P.D. have lots of savings. They will need it. Imagine, unemployed in Deming NM.
I’m not so convinced. It seems to me like what they want, they get, rules be damned, and even if they couldn’t get you in PRISON for fleeing custody, they could mess your life and finances up pretty good.
Given a choice between a few days of pain and having the cops hounding me for several years and running me into the poorhouse for the sheer joy of it, I’d prolly just take the pain and get it over with.
Now, there are two. More to come, no doubt.
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