Posted on 07/03/2013 2:29:09 PM PDT by traumer
Brandy Hamilton, 26, and Alexandria Randle, 24, say their civil rights were violated by the invasive search Texas Department of Public Safety trooper ordered the body cavity search because he smelled marijuana and allegedly found the end of a blunt The women say that the female trooper used the same glove to search inside both of them =============
Disturbing video shows two women in bikinis being subjected to body cavity searches on the side of a Texas highway after they were stopped returning from a weekend at the beach.
Brandy Hamilton, 26, and Alexandria Randle, 24, are suing the Texas Department of Public Safety and the sheriff of Brazoria County, Texas, where the stop occurred. Their lawyer alleges that the search was meant to humiliate them and was conducted without probable cause.
The female officer who performed the invasive search, which included sticking a finger in the women's vaginas, is accused of using the same pair of gloves to search both women. The entire 40-minute traffic stop was caught on the trooper's dashboard camera.
Attorney Allie R. Booker told MailOnline her client's case is startling similar to a July 2012 case in Dallas in which DPS trooper Kelly Helleson aggressively searched, Angel Dobbs and her niece, Ashley Dobbs - including giving them a body cavity search and not changing gloves between searching the two women.
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Sadly, I guess times have changed since I was there.. :/
This country was founded on the principle of rule of law, and that a suspect is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. The police are not judges nor executioners. They are, and should remain, at least 50%, if not 90%, community relations professionals who are armed for the general welfare when dealing with hard criminals. Sadly, with the decline of family in this country, they are often cast in the role of Rent-A-Dad. But just like your own Dad, self-discipline is best learned by example. Anger, spiteful punishment without due process, retaliation and vengeance are too costly to the taxpayer and the general welfare.
If you smoke dope and go out in public dressed like a whore, maybe you SHOULD be “intimidated” and “oppressed”. If this were the standard treatment, it might actually discourage some of the rampant crime!
Those of us raised with decency had enough sense to cover our bathing suits when not AT the beach.
It’s not about how I feel, it’s about how they behave.
Do you think they’ll make the same choices next time? Do you think they’ll decide the dope is a good risk again?
Well, no wonder we differ. I do. And, they did not execute the women, they just asked a woman officer to check them for more drugs.
Your post sounds much like the liberal left which defends the illegal aliens here in AZ as just "nice people who ran from dangerous Mexico." Right. The illegals broke into this country and these women were drug users. Sorry. If the "rule of law" is your mantra, then ask these women to start behaving like they should.
Possession is a crime. Sorry, criminals.
Curious...what would a bottle cap be doing on the floor?
(By the way, a 20 yr old college girl got jumped by 6 men for carrying a 12-pack of LaCroix water, because they thought it was beer... they were ABC agents.)
How did he get authorization to search the car?
Because your child was drinking a root beer..."
There, I put it in correct order.
And prove my point in doing so.
Well, then, we are glad you don’t teach around here.
Oh well. Good thing you don’t get to make that decision, eh?
If you don’t like the laws the proper thing to do is try to change them, not disobey them and cry when you get caught and punished. Especially when it’s a rather light punishment compared to what a lot of others have gotten for similar.
Good Lord, you still don’t have a clue, do you? Nobody minds these women being arrested. What we mind is the ROADSIDE BODY CAVITY SEARCH. I find it impossible to believe that you are too stupid to see the difference in the severity and implications of those two very different reactions to finding a joint in the car, so I’m forced to choose between two extremely unpleasant conclusions: 1) you’re a freaking Nazi, 2) you’re a troll. In either case, you don’t belong here.
I’m of the point of view that sometimes something not too nice like a beating or a cavity search is the ONLY “punishment” that will end up being doled out due to a soft justice system. Is it wrong? Yeah, perhaps so, but if the choice is between someone getting beaten or searched or getting away scot free, I’m going to choose “let them have SOME consquences at least!” EVERY time.
Don’t like it? Let’s see about a less ineffectual justice system where the law is actually the law, not a money grab, then.
To be blunt...doesn’t it piss you off when you read the news and find some scumbag got busted with dope, beat someone up, stole a car, whatever, and they got absolutely nothing because they got it thrown out on a silly technicality? Or they got a jury that let them walk because of some factor that wasn’t the facts of the case?
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