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jct74
07-29-2014, 01:04 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_EbfbbYSYQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_EbfbbYSYQ



On July 28, 2014, Reason TV released "Do You Have It Up Your Ass?": Drug Warriors in New Mexico Go Too Far. Incorporating footage from cameras on the dashboards and lapels of New Mexico law enforcement officers, the program tells the story of Timothy Young, a man who was pulled over in Lordsburg, New Mexico, for a traffic violation in October 2012.

Hidalgo County deputies looking for drugs searched Young’s truck for more than two hours. After a K9 deputy claimed that his dog Leo alerted on the driver’s seat of Young’s truck, deputies obtained a search warrant to search Young’s body. Deputies then drove Young to the Gila Regional Medical Center, located an hour north in Silver City, New Mexico. Young was X-rayed and, while still in handcuffs, subjected to a digital search of his anal cavity. No drugs were found.

There is more to the story, however. Just three months after the Young incident, David Eckert was pulled over in front of a Walmart for failing to come to a complete stop at a stop sign in Deming, a small town about an hour east of Lordsburg. Eckert was about to begin a 14-hour ordeal. Once again, law enforcement officers called in the dog, Leo, and once again his trainer claimed that the dog alerted on the driver’s seat.

Deputies obtained a warrant and brought Eckert to the hospital in Deming, New Mexico, where a doctor refused to conduct an anal cavity search, calling it unethical. Undeterred, deputies drove Eckert an hour north to another hospital, where doctors had agreed to search Young’s anal cavity. While at the Gila Regional Medical Center, Eckert was X-rayed, digitally probed, forced to endure several enemas, and ultimately put under and given a colonoscopy without his consent. Once again, no drugs were found.

Young and Eckert sued all the parties involved. So far, Young has been awarded $925,000 from Hidalgo County, and Eckert has been awarded $1.6 million from Hidalgo County and the city of Deming.

Approximately 8 minutes. Produced by Paul Feine and Alex Manning.

jbauer
07-29-2014, 01:23 PM
Still beyond shocking to me how this could possibly happen in Amerika. Glad they got the victims got paid for their annal sex though. Wish they'd subject the cops to the same abuse. My guess is the cops that pushed for the annal cavity search either was getting off by watching or the victims pissed them off somehow and this was their twisted way of getting back at them.

Brian4Liberty
07-29-2014, 01:54 PM
As they will probably never fire these incompetent Deputies, the lawsuit money should come out of their paychecks.

Dr.3D
07-29-2014, 01:57 PM
They're nuts. If they want to check for cavities, they need to look at your teeth.

Anti Federalist
07-29-2014, 02:04 PM
Drug Warriors in New Mexico Go Too Far

No, they have not gone "too far".

They have gone just as far as we have given them consent to go.

And based on what I see, they have not yet gone nearly far enough.

At this current juncture, Boobus would BBQ his first born child on the front lawn, if "authority" ordered him to do so, and thank the kind officer for his service, while doing it.

otherone
07-29-2014, 02:24 PM
Methinks "Officer Leo" doesn't know the difference between ass and skunkweed.

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