Are TX cops also fingering men's butts on the roadside during routine stops?

[elehhhhna]

If they do this to women, who commit WAY less crime than men, then they must be rectally checking the guys, too...right?

[Liberal_in_LA]

1. black males have been publicly stripped searched. Not much public objection until it happens to

white women.

[dsc]

2. outside at traffic stops?

[Liberal_in_LA]

3. yes. details below

ver $5.85 Million Paid for 44 African-American Men Strip Searched on the Street under Oakland's Unconstitutional Policy

For more than a decade, the Oakland Police Department had a practice, and eventually a written policy, allowing officers to strip search people right on the street in broad daylight. Haddad & Sherwin teamed up with John Burris to represent dozens of men - all African-American - who were subjected to this offensive and illegal police misconduct. Some of these cases lasted almost ten years, in the course of which, we obtained an important court ruling striking down Oakland's unconstitutional strip search policies, we won a trial with punitive damages for two men, and achieved a sweeping $4.6 million settlement for the remaining 39 men. Altogether, these related cases resulted in verdicts and settlements over $5,850,000, and a sweeping agreement that includes a new lawful OPD strip search policy and re-training, with court oversight and enforcement.

http://www.haddadandsherwin.com/results-detail.php?id=392

“I wanted to make sure everybody was doing everything by the book,” Durant said.

“Raymond if you’re going to stand there and video tape us why don’t you just come down here and do it,” a narcotics officer could be heard saying off camera.

Witnesses say narcotics detectives dragged Samuels from his car at gunpoint, then placed handcuffs on his wrists and ankles.

A search of his car for drugs turned up nothing, that’s when officers allegedly conducted a cavity search; using flash lights to obstruct Durant’s camera.

“They violated his civil right now,” Durant said. “You don’t dig in a man’s rectum.” “You don’t sodomize a man on the street in front of all his neighbors and friends.”

We spoke to Samuels Friday by phone, from the Jefferson Parish Jail.

Trotter asked, “Did you give them permission to conduct a cavity search?’

Samuels replied, “No sir.” ‘They asked me to turn around.”‘ “I turned around, they took a flashlight in my behind,” he said. “They didn`t see nothing so i turned back around.”

That’s when Samuels says he was violated by several plain clothes officers.

“He was standing up with the officers surrounding him, laughing making comments about how nice his butt was and soft it was,” Sylve said.” Trotter asked, “You heard this?” “I heard this, yes,” Sylve said.

“There’s just no excuse for treating someone that way,” Marjorie Esman said.

Marjorie Esman is with the ACLU.

“For law enforcement to comment on somebody’s anatomy that i would say constitutes as sexual harassment,” Esman said. “This is abuse.”

Witnesses say Samuels yelled out in pain.

“Loud enough for me to hear him from my stairs,” Durant said.

Read more: http://wgno.com/2013/05/17/gretna-man-says-he-was-humiliated-during-strip-search/#ixzz2b90lBVtm

[Bethany Rockafella]

9. Unbelievable

SMDH!

[Bonobo]

4. No, the men just have the fuck beaten out of them. nt

[Ken Burch]

5. I'm now making a mental note NEVER to shake hands with a Texas cop.

(I wish we had an "EWWWW" smilie)

[Recursion]

6. Yes, but people don't care as much when black men are sexually assaulted, unfortunately (nt)

[bettyellen]

7. Is it still happening?

[davidn3600]

8. There was this case in Arizona a few years ago that happened in a jail

A female officer strip searched a male inmate. He says she squeezed and groped around his buttocks and genital areas for over a minute while a dozen other people watched. He sued claiming he was humiliated. A decision in the 9th circuit ruled the search was unreasonable. The Supreme Court refused the government's appeal.

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2011/0606/Did-jail-strip-search-go-too-far-Supreme-Court-lets-ruling-stand