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STOP THE MADNESS: Third person reports being anally violated by police
The Daily Caller ^ | 11 Nov 2013 | Robby Soave

Posted on 11/11/2013 7:39:16 AM PST by mandaladon

A third New Mexico resident is claiming that she was physically abused by police and medical staff who exceeded their authority to search for drugs she never had.

The woman’s attorney came forward with her story just a few days after a local news channel reported similar stories involving New Mexico police forcing two suspects to undergo invasive surgery to prove they weren’t carrying drugs. Police used expired and nonexistent warrants to justify the improper and unethical searches, according to KOB-TV 4.

The unnamed woman is being represented by Laura Schaur Ives of the New Mexico chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. Schaur told KOB-TV 4 that her client was stopped by police in El Paso, Texas. After a drug-sniffing dog indicated that she might have drugs, police strip-searched her and then allegedly assault her by sticking their fingers into her vagina.

When the on-site search failed to turn up any drugs, police took the woman to University Medical Center of El Paso. There, she was given an X-ray, cat scan and full body search. Medical personnel probed her anus and vagina, according to Schaur.

“They then did a cavity search and they probed her vagina and her anus, they described in the medical records as bi-manual — two-handed,” she said in a statement. “Again, they found nothing.”

Schaur claims that police did not have a warrant to conduct the search.

If this horror story sounds familiar, it’s because two other New Mexico residents were violate by drug-seeking police officers. Timothy Young and David Eckert were pulled over for traffic violations in separate incidents, and were searched on the authority of the same unlicensed drug-sniffing dog.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...


TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: assault; cavitysearch; lawenforcement; newmexico; nm; police; texas
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To: Kozak
I will be a little more generous, and say they will all alert on command, but the handler may not realize he's giving a command.

See Clever Hans.

61 posted on 11/11/2013 8:45:55 AM PST by null and void (I'm betting on an Obama Trifecta: A Nobel Peace Prize, an Impeachment, AND a War Crimes Trial...)
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To: null and void

Next time refresh before mashing post twice, nully.


62 posted on 11/11/2013 8:46:35 AM PST by null and void (I'm betting on an Obama Trifecta: A Nobel Peace Prize, an Impeachment, AND a War Crimes Trial...)
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To: Orangedog

Hmmmm, wasn’t that in Bakersfield last May? They then confiscated everyone’s cell phones...


63 posted on 11/11/2013 8:47:57 AM PST by null and void (I'm betting on an Obama Trifecta: A Nobel Peace Prize, an Impeachment, AND a War Crimes Trial...)
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To: null and void

I won’t be that generous.


64 posted on 11/11/2013 8:49:54 AM PST by Kozak ("Send them back your fierce defiance! Stamp upon the cursed alliance! To arms, to arms....."e)
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To: freebilly
I’m moving to New Mexico! I want to win a multi-million dollar lawsuit...!

Pick your poison, anal violation or hot McDonald's coffee, we've seen it all.

65 posted on 11/11/2013 8:50:06 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Orangedog; from occupied ga
Ah yes. It got moved to chat
66 posted on 11/11/2013 8:51:51 AM PST by null and void (I'm betting on an Obama Trifecta: A Nobel Peace Prize, an Impeachment, AND a War Crimes Trial...)
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To: mandaladon
It's only one cop.

It's only one incident.

It's only one city.

It's only one county.

It's only one state.

It's only one country.

67 posted on 11/11/2013 8:56:22 AM PST by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
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To: mandaladon
Ironically, none of these victims were Mexicans...who transport 99.9% of drugs in that area. Why would this be?

To search Mexicans for drugs in this way would be racist. It's the same reason that only whites are charged with hate crimes and young Middle Eastern men are never searched at airports.

68 posted on 11/11/2013 8:56:48 AM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: GeronL

This has everything to do with drugs, and you’re the a-hole people are talking about above who approves of this behavior.

If you support it or defend it in anyway, you are responsible for creating it.


69 posted on 11/11/2013 9:02:32 AM PST by AlmaKing
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To: pax_et_bonum

Dogs have to be certified as capable of identifying the smell of certain narrow classes of substances, and is trained to respond to detection of those substances in an identifiable manner. An uncertified dog is basically a dog which finds some odor interesting, which may or may not belong to a proscribed material.


70 posted on 11/11/2013 9:02:39 AM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: pax_et_bonum

My mistake... They were fed police in Texas.


71 posted on 11/11/2013 9:06:26 AM PST by pallis
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To: mandaladon

This story you posted happened in el paso, texas.


72 posted on 11/11/2013 9:06:36 AM PST by dmz
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To: AlmaKing

I don’t approve of this behavior.

There was no evidence that the person had any drugs: this was not about drugs.

When did I ever support or defend their behavior? From the first article on this case I said the cops should probably go to prison for official oppression.

What is retarded is to go from this to saying drugs should be legalized.


73 posted on 11/11/2013 9:10:11 AM PST by GeronL
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To: lepton

An uncertified dog is basically a dog which finds some odor interesting, which may or may not belong to a proscribed material.

***

Thanks.


74 posted on 11/11/2013 9:10:50 AM PST by pax_et_bonum (Never Forget the Seals of Extortion 17 - and God Bless Americad)
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To: AlmaKing
and you’re the a-hole people are talking about above who approves of this behavior.

Several articles on this case have been posted, I encourage you to search them thoroughly for any statement of support I made, because I assure you I did not ever make one.

I guess you're the a-hole who goes off half-cocked and throws around accusations with nothing to back it up.

75 posted on 11/11/2013 9:12:22 AM PST by GeronL
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To: lepton

The dog in NM (interestingly named “Leo”) had an expired certification at the time he precipitated the buggery-under-the-color-of-authority.


76 posted on 11/11/2013 9:17:50 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: mandaladon

Hmmmmm, I never knew El Paso was in New Mexico. Learn something everyday.


77 posted on 11/11/2013 9:33:31 AM PST by Parley Baer
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To: DuncanWaring

Thanks for the additional info. ...Though an expired certificate means they haven’t been tested in a while to confirm they haven’t picked up some bad/confusing habit, or that they can still detect the specified materials (dogs senses of smell can be burned out by some of the compounds they are used to detect).


78 posted on 11/11/2013 9:38:57 AM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: oldbrowser

“recognize that you only go into a full body search if you have some corroborating suspicions besides the dog.”

How about we NEVER authorize full body searches,,,,,ever. Would society really seriously lose much ability to do proper law enforcement?


79 posted on 11/11/2013 9:39:11 AM PST by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: mandaladon

Since cops have stopped being protectors of our safety and rights we should disband them.


80 posted on 11/11/2013 9:45:14 AM PST by CodeToad (When ignorance rules a person's decision they are resorting to superstition.)
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