Shocking Conduct In South Dakotas Drug War
Source: National Memo
Reprinted with permission from Alternet.
The state of South Dakota is practicing a form of drug war excess tantamount to torture or sexual assault, according to a pair of federal lawsuits filed by the ACLU on June 28. One suit charges that law enforcement and medical personnel subject drug suspects to forcible catheterization if they refuse to submit to a drug test.
The second suit charges even more outrageous conduct: State social workers and medical personnel subjecting a screaming toddler to the same treatment, in a fruitless bid to bring a child abuse or neglect charge against his mother.
Let’s be clear here: We are talking about a person having a plastic tube painfully inserted in his penis without his consent and with the use of whatever physical force is necessary by agents of the state. In the name of enforcing drug laws.
Law enforcement has an incentive to coerce people into consenting to warrantless drug tests–with the realistic threat of forced catheterization–because its state laws punish not just possession of drugs, but having used them. Under the state’s “internal possession” or “unlawful ingestion” statutes, testin
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And then the state has one JOHN THUNE standing behind his turtle on the leadership of republican sh*t doing what for the state
Hey John Thune Fuck you, you allocate federal dollars for this sh*t. maybe instead of trying to cut services maybe you should be holding an investigation into this sh*t assh***
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on so many levels.....................
This war on drugs really picked up steam under the Reagan regime, a prime example is the for profit prison system, does anyone else see a correlation
