Posted on 11/06/2013 11:30:33 PM PST by Kegger
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David Eckert, a resident of Deming, NM, was pulled over by police officers after failing to come to a complete stop at a stop sign. For whatever reason, the officers decided Eckert was hiding something, or perhaps they were unsatisfied that a routine stop hadn't blown up into something bigger. ...
1. Eckert's abdominal area was x-rayed; no narcotics were found.
2. Doctors then performed an exam of Eckert's anus with their fingers; no narcotics were found.
3. Doctors performed a second exam of Eckert's anus with their fingers; no narcotics were found.
4. Doctors penetrated Eckert's anus to insert an enema. Eckert was forced to defecate in front of doctors and police officers. Eckert watched as doctors searched his stool. No narcotics were found.
5. Doctors penetrated Eckert's anus to insert an enema a second time. Eckert was forced to defecate in front of doctors and police officers. Eckert watched as doctors searched his stool. No narcotics were found.
6. Doctors penetrated Eckert's anus to insert an enema a third time. Eckert was forced to defecate in front of doctors and police officers. Eckert watched as doctors searched his stool. No narcotics were found.
7. Doctors then x-rayed Eckert again; no narcotics were found.
8. Doctors prepared Eckert for surgery, sedated him, and then performed a colonoscopy where a scope with a camera was inserted into Eckert's anus, rectum, colon, and large intestines. No narcotics were found.
At no time did Eckert give his consent to these searches. The police did obtain a warrant to rectally search Eckert but that warrant itself was problematic.
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It’s like waterboarding in reverse! Weren’t they against using torture? Waterboarding at least leaves them with SOME dignity, this does not!
Sounds like a bunch of publicly employed queers partying.
Me too. Only...
As to the initial traffic stop, it's almost a given that it was a "pretext stop" resulting from some sort of narco investigation/enforcment action. The thing is, SCOTUS looked at that very issue in 1996, and ruled (unanimously -- how often does that happen?) in Whren v. US that using a traffic violation as a pretext does not violate the 4th amendment.
Too bad he isn't the only one to experience this treatment in that city.
If the LEOs get away with it, they will be cited as the legal precedent allowing LEOs everywhere to take the same liberties.
Absolutely. More violence has been done to the Contsitution in the name of the "War on Drugs" than any other cause. The 'cure' is by far worse thatn the 'disease'. Crime and corruption go hand in hand with neo-prohibitionism. Those supporting this assault on our rights are directly responsible for the violations of same that have come about because of it.
Personally, I have little use for drugs of any kind, and hesitate to take tylenol even when its use is indicated (fever). Irregardless of my personal feelings about them, I look at what it has done to our police, courts and political system, and cringe at the short sightedness of neo-prohibitionists. In 1930, people were being killed by violent mobsters protecting turf who moved in when alcohol was banned. After prohibition was repealed, that stopped quickly. Did I have miss seeing the reports on the news of the street battles when the Miller Brewing Company and Anheuser Busch Company distributors battle it out for territory? I don't think so. If the war on drugs ended tomorrow, so would much of the violence and crime that surrounds drugs today.
Of course, the powers that be know this. The problem is, there is this huge industry that surrounds the 'drug war' that would be put out of business with the repeal of Prohibition II. Suddenly, you'd have plenty of jail space for murderers, and other violent thugs because the beds freed up by low-level dealers would disappear. We might also have a chance to look at 'no-knock' warrants, and perhaps could return to a day when warrants were served by civilized human beings instead of 'roided-up soldier wannabes.
The powers that be probably wouldn't like us taking a closer look at forfeiture laws that don't require a conviction of a crime for the government to steal someone's property. It's all about the Benjamin's folks! I imagine there might be less money flowing from criminal organizations through political machines and poiice departments. Can't have that, can we?
What would happen to the gangsta culture if suddently there weren't local drug dealers driving around in the pimped-out rides?
The societal benefits from doing away with our second attempt at prohibition would far outweigh any detrimental effects you might see.
However, the neo-prohibitionists soldier on, making government more, corrupt, more immoral, and less protecting of our liberty. They think they'll be happy in the police state they are working towards, but ultimately it will bite them, the same as it does to everyone else.
Don’t feed the trolls. :-)
And that, ladies and gentlemen, means in Alaska Wolf's eyes, the PO-lice are fully justified in doing anything they wish to this guy, and the other guy too!
I'm only slightly surprised you don't advocate total evisceration and inch-by-inch tactile examination of his entire digestive tract.
After all, he has had run-ins with the Authoratahs in the past.
The day the police unions had to pay for civil rights lawsuits is the day the abuses would stop.
IF, and note that I said IF, he is on parole they will not allow him to get out.
Whose smarter?
The guy who wants to leave an area that he is not wanted, where all his old contacts that helped lead him astray still live, who is on the local PD's literal Sh!t list, who the local PD selectively harasses, who wants a new life elsewhere.
Or the system that won't let him leave no matter how undesirable he is to them?
Brain damage?
If only it were an isolated incident we could dismiss it as a fluke.
There are now two separate incidents with two separate victims that we know of. I won't be asstonished [sic] if more come forward.
Nor will I be astonished if some FReepers continue to defend the LEOs for the 3rd, 4th, 5th, 20th or 100th time this happened.
As to a .45 caliber enema? I wouldn't mourn too much if the individuals were found with garden hoses inserted and duct taped in place. It would be wrong, of course, and two wrongs don't make a right, of course, it would be deplorable, of course, still, I could understand someone wanting to do this...
Butt wait! He also got a digital exam two x-rays and three enemas!!!
Well said. Wasted on the terminally tone-deaf, but very well said none-the-less.
Apparently failing to signal can result in a sexual assault in New Mexico, and apparently you are OK with that as long as the assailants are wearing blue uniforms.
(Is it blue in NM, or are they literal Brownshirts?)
Soon he will be a multi millionaire and he isn’t due for another colonoscopy for 5 years. :-)
a billion bucks ....and two fired and jailed cops along with the dr who would perform such a thing as a colonoscopy on an unwilling person...
Implies? According to you. Nowhere is a civilian convicted. You lose, try again.
You should seek a certified medical diagnosis.
I’m smarter.
Agreed. You are so smart that you know when the facts aren’t on your side, you can only attack the messenger.
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