Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Stay away from New Mexico!

Here's the gist of the story behind the reason why you should stay away:

Guy gets pulled over by cop for failing to make a complete stop at a stop sign.  When he climbs out of his car, officers think he's clenching his buttocks, so they use a drug dog to search his car and the dog is interested in the driver's seat.  Therefore, officers get a search warrant to probe his anus.

Okay, maybe they had probable cause to get that warrant, but here's what he had to endure:

  1. An x-ray revealed no drugs;
  2. Fingers inside the anus, still no drugs;
  3. Second test with fingers inside the anus, still no drugs;
  4. Forced enema and forced defecation in front of officers, still no drugs;
  5. Second forced enema and forced defecation in front of officers and still no drugs;
  6. Third forced enema and forced defecation in front of officers and still no drugs;
  7. Second x-ray, but still no drugs;
  8. Sedated and colonoscopy performed throughout his large intestines but no drugs found.
So at what step do you think they would have figured out that there really weren't any drugs in this guy?  It sure looks like he was tortured and humiliated by officers.

Oh, and not only did they perform the anal probes after the warrant expired, but they were done in a county other than the one in which the warrant had been sought for.  You see, the first stop these officers made, was at a hospital where doctors objected to performing such searches.

So you might think that this is a single incident, right?  Well...

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