Clenched Buttocks, Multple Anal Probes, Colonoscopy, Drugs Found = Zero

[Gman]

Charged 4 times over the last 11 years, plead guilty once 5 years ago for a reduced sentence, and the state dropped the other 3. That doesn't excuse what happened. Innocent until proven guilty. If we don't have a right to our own body, what's left?

[lowbeyond]

Well we don't have the right to our own bodies. Just ask the Drug Warriors for a start.

So to answer your question, nothing.

[hatidua]

In a prudent attempt not to get banned, I'll refrain from typing my thoughts...

[Clint45]

I've heard that, outside of US Customs and Corrections, body cavity searches are rare . . . and when they do occur, it's just a finger up the bung. Multiple enemas is just insane. I don't even think Customs does forced enemas without a positive hit on the X-Ray showing someone has an intestine packed full of balloons. And they even took him out of their jurisdiction to have that done. Sounds like an easy million dollar settlement coming his way.

[spqrzilla]

Ken White's piece at Popehat is a must read.

[Skip]

Charged 4 times over the last 11 years, plead guilty once 5 years ago for a reduced sentence, and the state dropped the other 3. That doesn't excuse what happened. Innocent until proven guilty. If we don't have a right to our own body, what's left?

If you no longer own your labor, then you do not own your body.

A payroll tax is a claim on your labor and it is deducted before you have a change to willingly pay it. Stuff to think about...

[asmo]

Fun article on the subject: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/1...n_4254600.html

Most important part:

"In the end, we're faced with two unsatisfying lessons from all of this. First, what happened to Eckert and Young was wrong. The medical personnel acted unethically, and the criminal justice system personnel -- the judges, the prosecutor, the cops and the police department -- all illegally violated the constitutional rights of both men. And it's entirely likely that no one will be punished -- legally, financially or professionally. In fact, it could all happen again tomorrow, and tomorrow's victim couldn't do much about it, either.

... And don't think it can't happen elsewhere. Last summer, a dash camera video emerged in which female police officers in Dallas performed roadside vaginal and rectal searches for drugs of two women after a routine traffic stop. Days later, another video emerged of similar searches conducted in Houston. According to a New York Daily News report, civil rights attorneys later discovered that such searches are "standard policy among the Texas Department of Public Safety’s state troopers."

[BushMasterBoy]

The only reason they don't go after the real drug cartels, is because the cartels are so heavily armed by Eric Holder the cops would not survive a gunfight with them. Like George Carlin has stated, you want to stop drugs? Start by publicly hanging bankers that handle the drug dealers profits...

[Rucker61]

The payoff - $1.6M. Sorry, can't paste links for some reason.

[Gman]

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/...ion-settlement

A judge granted police a search warrant authorizing a probe "up to and including [Eckert's] anal cavity." The warrant's limits allegedly were exceeded by the colonoscopy and it's unclear why that procedure was necessary after enemas and X-rays did not reveal hidden drugs.

Eckert's lawsuit further alleged the colonoscopy was performed without consent. His attorney, Shannon Kennedy, told U.S. News in November her client was sent a $6,000 bill by the medical center. Eckert refused to pay the bill.

"This is essentially medical anal rape, numerous times over a 12-hour period," Kennedy said. "I can't imagine anything more horrifying than what happened to our client. It's just sadistic."

One possible reason for the fruitless pursuit of drugs is that authorities were using a drug-sniffing dog named Leo whose certification allegedly expired in April 2011. The dog, under the supervision of Hidalgo County Sheriff's Office deputies, signaled Eckert had drugs.

In at least one other case, Leo appears to have incorrectly alerted authorities to drugs, resulting in another innocent driver being brought to the same hospital for probing.

Timothy Young was anally probed at the Gila Regional Medical Center in October 2012 after being pulled over for allegedly failing to use his turn signal. The same law firm is representing Young, but it's unclear what the status of his case is.

KOB-TV reports that the city and county governments quietly settled with Eckert in December. The station learned the settlement amount from a public records request.

Eckert's lawsuit also named two doctors, the medical center and Deputy District Attorney Daniel Dougherty, who helped acquire the search warrant. Those defendants have not settled.

Among the alleged issues in Eckert's case were that the colonoscopy began on the morning of Jan. 3, 2013, hours after the search warrant expired.