Posted on 11/05/2013 2:50:12 PM PST by mandaladon
What began as a simple traffic stop ended in a humiliating and nightmarish ordeal for a New Mexico man. It won’t come as a surprise to most people why the man has now filed a federal civil rights lawsuit.
The incident began on Jan. 2 as David Eckert was leaving the local Walmart in Deming, N.M. He reportedly failed to make a complete stop at a stop sign, prompting police to pull him over.
The officers asked him to step out of the vehicle and claim the man appeared to be clenching his buttocks, Eckert’s attorney, Shannon Kennedy, told TheBlaze. It is unclear why police removed him from the vehicle in the first place. However, because the cops believed he was clenching his buttocks, they took it as reason to suspect him of hiding narcotics in his anal cavity. Police officers detained Eckert while they sought a search warrant for an anal cavity search.
“What is so strange about this case is they held him with no evidence,” Kennedy said. “They seized him to collect evidence, to go on a fishing expedition on someone’s body.”
Upon securing the warrant, Deming police officers took the man to an emergency room, but hit their first snag when a doctor refused to perform the anal cavity search because he believed it to be “unethical.”
So police tried again at the Gila Regional Medical Center in Silver City, N.M., where doctors agreed to the search.
KOB-TV outlined the disturbing series of events that occurred next, details confirmed by medical records and official documents provided to TheBlaze by Eckert’s attorney:
1. Eckert’s abdominal area was X-rayed; no narcotics were found.
2. Doctors then performed an exam of Eckert’s anus with their fingers; no narcotics were found.
(Excerpt) Read more at theblaze.com ...
Medical schools have dropped the Hippocratic Oath because it interferes with higher sensibilities, like abortion and euthanasia.
In case you’re interested in getting your blood boiling...
I seriously doubt any health information from the colonoscopy would be released to the colonoscopee.
The "public trust" is not a concern of modern police. What they strive for is public fear. General use of SWAT teams, tasering women drivers before they get out of their cars, multiply tasering a traffic stop who is already down and helpless, shooting dogs and children routinely- it is all part of the beginning of The Terror. All totalitarian states employ Terror which is nơt the unorthodox warfare perpetrated by saracens. Terror is government random violence against the population to destroy trust among people including immediate family so that opposition has no chance to develop and to maintain fear and subservience.
The guy may get rich but everyone else’s job is safe. These things are SOP in the kenyan’s America.
we should ask Dustin about this... it happened in New Mexico...
While the police with the help of the doctors certainly went way to far searching this guys backside, there is more to this story.
1) Police k9 unit detected drugs on the drivers side giving the judge reason enough to justify the search warrant.
2) Eckert had a criminal history of hiding drugs up his bum, he’s no saint.
That said, after the first examination it became “unreasonable”.
Maybe you will be next!
Wait, May you be next!
There, got it.
Hippocrates is a dead, old White male anyway. /s
Victims of police/government abuse rarely see a dime of compensation. Many suffer financial ruin. Ever hear the phrase you can't fight city hall? Well you can't. Only the rarest most media exposed cases ever see justice.
Cases like this are proof positive the ONLY solution is strictly limited government power.
yes...with the exception of some free enterprise left and talk radio.
That would be my bet.
The guy is going to be rich, and there will be less complete and utter morons in these positions.
I see you haven't been around here long. If you actually follow this case to its completion, you'll find that the policemen will keep their jobs, after a couple of weeks paid vacations, the judge will not be affected at all, nor will the DA. The doctors and nurses might have a big hit on their medical insurace, but that's probably about it.
This guy was just a citizen he can't expect any justice from our legal system. He may well get some money out of it, though probably not as much as he deserves, and the taxpayers will once again bend over for it, because the money sure as hell isn't going to come from any police or legal system budgets.
Your optimism is refreshing, but is not a part of the real world.
Actually, I believe the real solution to this is embodied in your FR handle.
The hospital charged him for the medical procedures. All of them.
He was chewing gum with his ass? A nervous butt tic? The cop was ghey?
I don’t think a dog alerting is grounds for a warrant. Too darn easy for the handler to signal the dog, consciously or unconsciously.
1) Police k9 unit detected drugs on the drivers side giving the judge reason enough to justify the search warrant.
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Or maybe the subject owns a female dog near estrus......
Like in the USSR? There really was none of that until the whole house of cards collapsed and that took 70 years.
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