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 ...
See Clever Hans.
Next time refresh before mashing post twice, nully.
Hmmmm, wasn’t that in Bakersfield last May? They then confiscated everyone’s cell phones...
I won’t be that generous.
Pick your poison, anal violation or hot McDonald's coffee, we've seen it all.
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.
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.
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.
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.
My mistake... They were fed police in Texas.
This story you posted happened in el paso, texas.
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.
An uncertified dog is basically a dog which finds some odor interesting, which may or may not belong to a proscribed material.
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Thanks.
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.
The dog in NM (interestingly named “Leo”) had an expired certification at the time he precipitated the buggery-under-the-color-of-authority.
Hmmmmm, I never knew El Paso was in New Mexico. Learn something everyday.
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).
“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?
Since cops have stopped being protectors of our safety and rights we should disband them.
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