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Cops cavity-search women stopped for littering

CORed said:
It appears to be a case of the "War on Drugs" gone wild. Seriously, do we really need to allow police officers to violate people this way, just so they can't get away with hiding a few grams of marijuana?
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If the police acted in the way alleged in Australia I believe they would be charged with sexual assault.
 
The phrase used in Dallas (and Houston) by the police in the 70's was "You might beat the rap, but you can't beat the ride."

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Kind of hard to tell if the cop was merely searching the crotch or the body cavity. The second search seemed to take longer.

It doesn't show the cop changing gloves between women. That alone is an infectious disease hazard. You could spread herpes from one person to the other. And definitely searching the anal area then the vaginal area could easily cause a bladder infection hazard.

I didn't see any oral cavity search.

I think the cop claiming the women were acting weird and he smelled pot to be very specious. And having not found any pot suggests it's doubtful he actually really smelled any.

I think the cop was unprofessional. He should have ticketed them for littering and left it at that. Seemed like he wanted to find something and wasted everyone's time looking.
 
CORed said:
It appears to be a case of the "War on Drugs" gone wild. Seriously, do we really need to allow police officers to violate people this way, just so they can't get away with hiding a few grams of marijuana?
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I agree with you here. I thought the cops could pat people down at the scene to find weapons and really needed more to go on than they're acting funny or I think I smell something to do an on scene cavity search. I wonder what the dept policy is on that?
 
Skeptic Ginger said:
I think the cop was unprofessional. He should have ticketed them for littering and left it at that. Seemed like he wanted to find something and wasted everyone's time looking.
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Probably having a bad day or one/both of the women got smart mouthed with him/them, so, boom, let's show them the power of being a cop. Exactly the sort of officer who should be flushed with no pension or benefits; better to do it now before someone ends up in a hospital or grave.
 
Whether it was a technically-correct "cavity search" in the definite procedural sense of the word, it was an invasive assault and out of line.
 
I do not think any cop should have the authority to do that . . . . . keep giving them the ok and our rights keep going away.
 
The officers involved need harsh disciplining. This is absolutely not ok.
And the only actual "crime" being investigated was a cigarette butt being thrown out the window?
Except for the unprovable but frequently levied claim of a "smell of marijuana." :rolleyes:
 
That is way too much authority. Search the car, if there is no evidence, let them go. There is no way an officer should be allowed to perform a search like that unless the suspect is under arrests.
 
lionking said:
If the police acted in the way alleged in Australia I believe they would be charged with sexual assault.
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If the DA finds credible evidence of the claim by the women, the officer will most certainly be brought up on charges.

This whole situation is ****** up. To do that, especially on the side of the road, is absurd.
 
CORed said:
The video form the dash-cam is pretty damning. While I can't rule out the possibility that there is more here than meets the eye, if I take that video at face value, the only reason for the invasive search was the first trooper's observation that he smelled marijuana in the car. Even if this is "probable cause" for an invasive body search (a mind-boggling idea in and of itself), to do this on the side of the road is simply inexcusable. Maybe there's more to the story, but I have a hard time imagining what there could be that would justify that. I hate to see the taxpayers of Dallas get stuck with the bill, but I think these women are in line for some serious money.
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Yeah, I missed that there was dash cam footage before.

While this most likely was not a cavity search, still definately inappropriate and an abuse of position.

The ONLY way I could think this would be even remotely tolerable is if the women had made specific comments about having drugs in their pants (or if there was strong evidence they were, at the time, carrying drugs...and no, "I thought I smelled pot" isn't strong evidence). Even then, on the side of the road is not the right place for this kind of search.
 
This is what it takes apparently, can't have a people just choosing to use a gate way drug. Don't mess with Texas.
 
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