They sure didn't flinch much for one in the stink and one in the pink !! I hope they get paid and those fine officers get shipped over the El Paso / Juarez boarder patrol.
"... it is simply fantastic to urge that such a procedure performed in public by a policeman while the citizen stands helpless, perhaps facing a wall with his hands raised, is a 'petty indignity.' It is a serious intrusion upon the sanctity of the person, which may inflict great indignity and arouse strong resentment, and it is not to be undertaken lightly." Terry v. Ohio, (1968) 392 U.S. 1, at 16–17
Maybe those cops should be made to undergo the same during the superbowl halftime show.
And at the end, the trooper - blames the searches on them - on the fact that someone "daily smokes" in that car, "that's why" they did what they did. Don't abusers routinely blame their victims for causing their own abuse?
Two women say that after being pulled over for littering, Texas State Troopers insisted that they must be carrying marijuana in their vehicle and body orifices. A female officer slipped on a rubber glove, rubbed her hands all over the womens' breasts, and inside their pants where they say that there was finger penetration into their bodies.
"I was molested. I was violated. I was humiliated in front of other traffic. I had to witness my niece go through the same thing," Angel Hobbs said. "This has been an eye-opening experience for me, okay? Never been pulled over, never searched like this. It's… I mean, I was like totally violated over there a few minutes ago. I had a finger in my *** and a finger in my ****, and this is so embarrassing to me."
Attorney Pete Shulte commented that the demeanor of the officers makes the roadside search look like a routine occurrence.
Women sue DPS for roadside body cavity search
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3c1qAMqtFY
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kU9hNlf6Eo
Remember when they called that rape?
Couple of points- based on what I saw, and I watched both links above, it seems like a search was not justified. HOWEVER, there were numerous edits. What is missing? Is there more the "probable cause" than shown in these "clips"? and they are "clips".
Second, and this is not hair splitting- the search looked to be invasive, but penetration? I highly doubt that based upon the physical reactions during the search.. I think maybe that there is either some doubt as to what "penetration" really means or an effort to convert this into something more.