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The Banality of Butt-Probing Bureaucrats
The City, the Police, and the Hospital are not backing down. Presumably this means they are proud of having, essentially (it would seem to me), raped a man repeatedly after a routine traffic stop.
Presumably, they were only following orders:
From Opposing Views:
A routine traffic stop in January turned into a surreal, nightmarish scenario for a New Mexico man forced to undergo repeated anal probing after police thought they noticed something funny when they pulled him over for failing to fully stop at a stop sign, according a civil rights lawsuit filed in August.
Albuquerque TV station KOB reported on the lawsuit over the bizarre allegations only yesterday. The story it uncovered is macabre, with the only moral seeming to be that if you’re ever pulled over by the police, stay loose.
According to KOB’s account of the allegations, the ordeal began for plaintiff David Eckert of Lordsburg, N.M., back on Jan. 2 of this year, after he’d finished some shopping at Wal-Mart. As he pulled out of the store’s parking lot, City of Deming police noticed that he did a rolling stop at a stop sign, so they immediately pulled him over.
They asked Eckert to get out of his vehicle, and that’s when things started to get weird. They noticed that the Wal-Mart shopper appeared to be clenching his buttocks. According to police, a drug-sniffing dog detected a scent of illegal drugs on Eckert’s car seat.
Putting two and two together brilliantly, officers concluded that Eckert must be hiding drugs in his rectum. They held Eckert while they got a search warrant for his anus.
And they did get that warrant, according to the KOB account of the allegations. But nearby emergency room doctors refused to administer an anal probe, citing ethical considerations. They just didn’t think it was right to penetrate a man’s anus without his consent.
Medical professionals at Gila Regional Medical Center in Silver City had no such compunctions. It didn’t even matter to them that the search warrant for Eckert’s anal cavity was good only in Luna County, but the medical center is in nearby Grant County.
The first thing they did was X-ray Eckert’s abdomen. They found no drugs. Next, a doctor stuck fingers into Eckert’s anus. Again, no drugs. So they probed his anus with their fingers again. Still nothing.
So they forced an enema on him then made him defecate in front of doctors and police officers while they watched. Still nothing. Then they did it again. And again. Three enemas, three times Eckert was made to evacuate his bowels in front of officers and doctors.
No drugs turned up. So they X-rayed him again. Nothing.
Then came the pièce de résistance. The doctors sedated him and performed a colonoscopy, searching Eckert’s rectum, colon and large intestines with a camera. They found no drugs.
And here comes the punchline. The Gila Medical Center charged Eckert for all of these procedures — none of which were done with his consent — and is threatening to sic a collection agency on him if he doesn’t pay.
Police refused to comment when KOB’s reporter approached them, as did the medical center. Eckert himself backed out of an interview. According to his attorney, Shannon Kennedy, he’s just too scared.
“He’s absolutely terrified,” Kennedy said. “He’s living in a community where police are able to harass people traveling through this community and people who live here, basically unchecked.”
Eckert is suing the City of Deming, Hidalgo County, Gila Regional Medical Center and several individuals involved in the incident.
Albuquerque TV station KOB reported on the lawsuit over the bizarre allegations only yesterday. The story it uncovered is macabre, with the only moral seeming to be that if you’re ever pulled over by the police, stay loose.
According to KOB’s account of the allegations, the ordeal began for plaintiff David Eckert of Lordsburg, N.M., back on Jan. 2 of this year, after he’d finished some shopping at Wal-Mart. As he pulled out of the store’s parking lot, City of Deming police noticed that he did a rolling stop at a stop sign, so they immediately pulled him over.
They asked Eckert to get out of his vehicle, and that’s when things started to get weird. They noticed that the Wal-Mart shopper appeared to be clenching his buttocks. According to police, a drug-sniffing dog detected a scent of illegal drugs on Eckert’s car seat.
Putting two and two together brilliantly, officers concluded that Eckert must be hiding drugs in his rectum. They held Eckert while they got a search warrant for his anus.
And they did get that warrant, according to the KOB account of the allegations. But nearby emergency room doctors refused to administer an anal probe, citing ethical considerations. They just didn’t think it was right to penetrate a man’s anus without his consent.
Medical professionals at Gila Regional Medical Center in Silver City had no such compunctions. It didn’t even matter to them that the search warrant for Eckert’s anal cavity was good only in Luna County, but the medical center is in nearby Grant County.
The first thing they did was X-ray Eckert’s abdomen. They found no drugs. Next, a doctor stuck fingers into Eckert’s anus. Again, no drugs. So they probed his anus with their fingers again. Still nothing.
So they forced an enema on him then made him defecate in front of doctors and police officers while they watched. Still nothing. Then they did it again. And again. Three enemas, three times Eckert was made to evacuate his bowels in front of officers and doctors.
No drugs turned up. So they X-rayed him again. Nothing.
Then came the pièce de résistance. The doctors sedated him and performed a colonoscopy, searching Eckert’s rectum, colon and large intestines with a camera. They found no drugs.
And here comes the punchline. The Gila Medical Center charged Eckert for all of these procedures — none of which were done with his consent — and is threatening to sic a collection agency on him if he doesn’t pay.
Police refused to comment when KOB’s reporter approached them, as did the medical center. Eckert himself backed out of an interview. According to his attorney, Shannon Kennedy, he’s just too scared.
“He’s absolutely terrified,” Kennedy said. “He’s living in a community where police are able to harass people traveling through this community and people who live here, basically unchecked.”
Eckert is suing the City of Deming, Hidalgo County, Gila Regional Medical Center and several individuals involved in the incident.
A copy of the lawsuit is viewable at this link.
Sources: KOB-TV, Clip Syndicate, Scribd
Sources: KOB-TV, Clip Syndicate, Scribd
6 comments:
Uh...did they at least search his car before raping him? WTF is this? And how is this not illegal?
I didn't know you could get a search warrant to be able to finger people without their consent.
And having learned a little bit about behavior of people as a flight attendant...did these geniuses think that he may have been clenching his butt because he was nervous out of his mind?!
DAMN PEOPLE!
Nicoenarg
It makes sense to me that the police ought to be able to do cavity searches.
To be frank, one of the things that bothers me about this story is we are not seeing photographs of this man, nor are we hearing of his background.
If he looked like a crack addict, and he had a background as a crack addict, then perhaps the police had a point.
But that does not SEEM to be the case.
It could be, however, that this is just another one of those cases that Leftists use to beat the police over the head, so they maybe are obfuscating and not telling us that the man looks and acts like Charles Manson, and the police had good reason to do what they did.
BUT HERE'S THE SAD FACT OF AMERIA TODAY:
THE LEFTISTS ARE ACTUALLY NOW MORE LIKELY TO BE ON THE SIDE OF THE POLICE AND THE POLICE ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE ON THE SIDE OF THE LEFTISTS
why is this?
BECAUSE OF UNIONS
FEEDING TROUGHS FOR LEFTIST PIGS
BECAUSE POLICE MEN ARE OFTEN NOT OUR FINEST,
BUT ARE NOW ENTRENCHED BUREAUCRATS,
PERMANENT CHILDREN SPOONFED BY THEIR PARENT/GOVERNMENT WITH A NICE SALARY AND A PENSION TO CODDLE THEM IN THEIR OLD AGE.
This is America now.
Rife with scum from top to bottom.
De Blasio's Land. Home of the pussies.
'They noticed that the Wal-Mart shopper appeared to be clenching his buttocks'
That's probable cause if I ever heard it.
If I see a cop checking out my ass, I am asking about sexual harassment before ANYTHING ELSE HAPPENS
Calling the ACLU.
THIS CASE is what they are for.
QUESTION AUTHORITY
ALWAYS
It happened again, same Sheriff's Department, same drug sniffing dog.
we are seeing a cascade time period where the police change from being a part of the community to a gang same as any other gang except with a stratified class distinction well above your average crip, blood or suerano 13 gang.
their gaqol is not to protect and serve it is to prowl the streets of the community as a new predator species.
And yes he has a long history of drugs but still didn't deserve that but can understand the original search
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