4 On Your Side investigates traffic stop nightmare

4 On Your Side ^ | 11-5-2013 | Chris Ramirez

[KeyLargo]

4 On Your Side investigates traffic stop nightmare (Caution - Story about anal search)

Updated: 11/05/2013 5:27 PM By: Chris Ramirez, KOB Eyewitness News 4

This 4 On Your Side investigation looks into the actions of police officers and doctors in Southern New Mexico.

A review of medical records, police reports and a federal lawsuit show deputies with the Hidalgo County Sheriff's Office, police officers with the City of Deming and medical professionals at the Gila Regional Medical Center made some questionable decisions.

The incident began January 2, 2013 after David Eckert finished shopping at the Wal-Mart in Deming. According to a federal lawsuit, Eckert didn't make a complete stop at a stop sign coming out of the parking lot and was immediately stopped by law enforcement.

Eckert's attorney, Shannon Kennedy, said in an interview with KOB that after law enforcement asked him to step out of the vehicle, he appeared to be clenching his buttocks. Law enforcement thought that was probable cause to suspect that Eckert was hiding narcotics in his anal cavity. While officers detained Eckert, they secured a search warrant from a judge that allowed for an anal cavity search.

The lawsuit claims that Deming Police tried taking Eckert to an emergency room in Deming, but a doctor there refused to perform the anal cavity search citing it was "unethical."

But physicians at the Gila Regional Medical Center in Silver City agreed to perform the procedure and a few hours later, Eckert was admitted.

[KeyLargo]

I would have told the officers, "gimme your hat, I have to take a dump."

Anyway with Obamacare we are all going to be in for plenty of anal cavity searches, so get over it.......

[andyk]

This traffic stop brought to you by the letters WOD.

[Wings-n-Wind]

Beck's "The Blaze" site has a lot of detail --
Including the 19-pgs Federal Complaint

(Interesting / ber-r-r-y sk-e-e-ery reading)

LINK: THE BLAZE ARTICLE

[KeyLargo]

I know that at least one person that will be in for such a search soon:

“While at Ronald Reagan Airport on Wednesday, Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wisc.) was overheard talking on the phone. During his conversation, he told the person on the other end of the line that Michelle Obama has a big butt.”

http://www.theblaze.com/blog/2011/12/21/congressman-overheard-talking-about-michelle-obamas-butt/

[AKinAK]

The POS judge is to blame for this! Imagine if you have stomach indigestion, cramps for a delayed dump and a POS LEO sees you cramping-up, you can get hauled off to a hospital for a colonoscopy in this country !!!!!!!

[KeyLargo]

And in another state:

UPDATE: Texas trooper being sued in Irving body cavity search case has been suspended

VIDEO: http://crimeblog.dallasnews.com/2012/12/irving-women-sue-state-troopers-in-federal-court-alleging-roadside-body-cavity-searches.html/?nclick_check=1

[circlecity]

"Imagine if you have stomach indigestion, cramps for a delayed dump and a POS LEO sees you cramping-up, you can get hauled off to a hospital for a colonoscopy in this country"

I think tightening one's core muscles would be a natural response to someone poking around their privates. Cops use this "clenching" excuse all the time to justify a canine search of the vehicle. If they don't find drugs they invariably say the dog alerted to the driver's seat, all in order to justify a stirp search of the driver.

[andyk]

Check out the new reviews on his Google account:

Surgical Associates

[babygene]

Regarding a situation like this, when the perpetrators are government agents, if people are not willing or are afraid to take justice into their own hands, then justice will absolutely be denied.

These people need to be punished physically not just sued.

[KeyLargo]

Tsk, tsk. Some here on FR will accuse you of hate for daring to criticize authority. Be warned!

[Orangedog]

Got any cut and pastes? I don’t have an account on Skynet.

[CedarDave]

Posted yesterday here:

4 On Your Side investigates traffic stop nightmare

With followup last night:

4 On Your Side reveals another traffic stop nightmare (NM - Follow up to earlier FR thread)

[andyk]

Here you go!

how do you even rate an unwilling police brutality doctor complicit and executed anal probing and x-raying and colonoscoping?!!? Im not sure how Id rate that, maybe a minus one billion, but the least you can get is 1 star.... you don't deserve no star you should be on your way to jail in my opinion. how utterly despicable of you people.

Violates patient's rights as long as police say it's "ok" with a warrant. Avoid him simply for his willingness to put persons through un-needed and unethical treatments when previous medical evidence showed no reason for it.

This is the physician who forcibly put a man under general anesthesia and performed a colonoscopy at the request of the police, searching for drugs that didn't exist, WITHOUT THE CONSENT OF THE PATIENT. You're a monster and a sexual predator. I hope you lose everything you own, your ability to practice medicine forever, are criminally charged, spend the next 20 years in jail and are labeled a predatory sex offender. You are the worst of the worst that exist on this planet.

the warrant the police had wasn't even for this county AND was already expired. even so they should not have put that man through all that....2 x-rays, 2 physical anal searches by hand, 3 enemas, and a colonoscopy; ALL without consent. yeah don't go here Edit: a simple x-ray would have sufficed if the warrant was just

Make sure you don't clench your buttocks around him or the cops in Hidalgo county. Unethical doctor. Can't be trusted

This doctor is a MONSTER. This doctor should have his license revoked. When you receive your medical degree and your license you swear to the ethical treatment of your patients. Everything this doctor did was unethical, he violated this mans rights, no matter if he was under pressure from police or not, he could of refused to perform the procedure, as it was against his sworn agreement that he signed to become a doctor.

Those were all done with Google+ accounts which means most of them were done with zero anonymity.

[deport]

Some other threads about this event if anyone is interested in the comments thereon:

4 On Your Side investigates traffic stop nightmare
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3087839/posts

4 On Your Side looks into traffic stop gone horribly wrong for Lordsburg man
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3087659/posts

‘YOU COULD NEVER ANTICIPATE THIS HAPPENING IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3087881/posts

Lawsuit: Drug search included colonoscopy (NM-triggered by minor traffic stop)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3088141/posts

[Georgia Girl 2]

I’m actually shocked that the doctors agree to all that stuff.

[CedarDave]

The doctors who performed this at the Gila Regional Medical Center are in serious jeopardy of losing their licenses.

[Black Agnes]

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/11/05/man-seeks-millions-after-nm-police-force-colonoscopy-in-drug-search

The ‘reason’ they all went along with it is in the article posted above.

[Albion Wilde]

Here's the DailyMail article, with a photo of the police chief Brandon Gigante:

Routine traffic stop results in nightmare 14-hour anal cavity search at hospital for male driver who 'failed to halt at stop sign'

[Anton.Rutter]

I stopped driving a personal vehicle soon after 9/11...one positive side effect besides the healthful aspects of walking is that there`s less opportunity to interact with thugz in blue...

Still, I`ve been id`d run through the system and patted down on several occaisons for suspicious walking...any excuse for an Obama boy to fondle strange asscheeks will do...