[glorgau]

That was a quick settlement.

[apillar]

Heck they can give me some anal play for $1.6 million...but all jokes aside, what they put this poor guy through should never happen in the civilized world.

[Paladin2]

Wouldn’t it be better to image the guy first?

[Paladin2]

The copz need to have their asses literally handed to them.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Meanwhile, the police absolved themselves on any wrongdoing.

[jocon307]

This case is an outrageous outrage, however, I don’t think the word “surgery” is precisely correct.

[Tenacious 1]

Why can’t I get pulled over, suspected of hiding drugs in my a$$, arrested, “screwed” repeatedly, and awarded a settlement for millions of dollars?

Some people are just lucky I guess.

(This is satirical of course)

[Malichi]

I have been a clinical pharmacist for 27 years. It has always been my impression that one cannot be forced to undergo a medical procedure against one’s will. Maybe this is a part of Obamacare that we don't know about.
Whoever performed the procedures should lose their license to practice.

[Ray76]

How about a few more zeros on the right side and jail for the po-po

[Junk Silver]

I absolutely would not accept 60% of $1.6 million for what this guy was put through.

If the police officers and their supervisors haven’t all been fired and imprisoned then justice has not been done in this case and we should all quite literally watch our asses in the future.

[Wolfie]

Hosptials and Doctors still to come. On the other hand, an Employee Of The Year parking spot for the doc at the first hospital who refused to perform the procedures.

[Scoutmaster]

What's most frustrating about this case is that David Eckert, the probee, didn't win because of the anal probes; he won because he was anally probed outside the jurisdiction of a warrant.

Law enforcement had a search warrant to search the guy's body (I'd like to see the probable cause affidavit for that), but it was good only in Luna County.

A hospital physician in Luna County refused to perform the anal search on ethical grounds, so the police took the victim to a hospital in a different county.

Their search warrant was not valid there - not for the Hidalgo County sheriff's department, the Deming County police, the hospital where the probes were conducted, nor the physicians who performed the probes.

If the anal probes had been performed in Luna County, this may have been considered perfectly legal. That's distressing.

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[KarlInOhio]

driven to a hospital, driven to a second hospital,

Kudos to the first hospital for refusing to aid the Stasi. They sound like a great place to go if you actually want a colonoscopy.

Remember the magic words "I'm allergic to that". Hospitals are scared of allergic reactions and you will put them in the position of not doing the procedure or doing it anyway after they have been fully informed of an allergy.

[Salgak]

Does anyone else find it appropriate that the town paid. . . out the @ss ???? (evil grin)

[muir_redwoods]

He settled cheap.

[GBA]

I forget...what's the "War on Drugs" actually a war on?

Who's winning? What are they winning? Is it worth fighting the war?

Who's losing? What's being lost? Is it worth the cost? Can it be recovered? Should it be?

What's really happening here?

[Anton.Rutter]

If you anally raped the cops in similarly dehumanising fashion, I wonder what they would settle for.

[Mr. Dough]

Do you suppose the taxpayers of that jurisdiction are actually picking up the tab? I’ll bet the cops aren’t personally shelling out.