Police Played With Woman's Sex Toys During Drug Raid

[matcom]

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CHICAGO — The trial for a local woman's lawsuit against 14 police officers for allegedly capering about with her sex toys and modeling her lingerie during a drug raid on her home opened Monday in federal court in Chicago.

Attorneys made opening arguments and eight witnesses testified with the case scheduled to continue today.

Plaintiff Dorothy Campbell filed the lawsuit and accused the officers of conducting an unreasonable search and seizure at her then-Raymond Street home in February 2003. She also sought damages from two of the officers over allegations of obtaining a second search warrant under false pretenses to recover a tape of one of their colleagues apologizing for the initial raid.

Police served the first search warrant with the intent to locate marijuana they believed her son, Brandon, then

18, was selling. Dorothy Campbell was not home when police arrived, but her son and four of his friends were, according to the lawsuit.

Officers handcuffed Brandon Campbell and his friends, then "went into (Dorothy Campbell's) dresser drawers and found (her) personal and private sex toys," the lawsuit said.

The officers "did not and could not have reasonably believed that (her) private and personal sex toys constituted evidence of possession of cannabis ... or any other crime," according to the lawsuit.

Still, the officers took them from the dresser and showed them to Campbell's son, asking him what his mother did with them, the lawsuit states. Then, "the raiding party took (her) personal and private sex toys and used them for their own amusement and left them strewn about the residence," according to the lawsuit.

http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/heraldnews/top/JO13_LAWSUIT_S1.htm

[Misunderestimator]

1. They showed them to her SON?!? Outrageous.

And this was under suspicion of HIM selling pot that they invaded HER private things? :wtf:

[Orsino]

2. Well, they were going to search the entire premises...

...regardless of who was named on the warrant. They have no way of knowing where contraband might be stashed.

No excuse for the alleged misconduct, of course. I'd be curious to know just what protocols are supposed to govern their searches.

[ContraBass Black]

3. Outrageous!

But still amusing.

Throw the book at them.



Hey look, I passed the mark.

[Mizmoon]

4. What a bunch of jerks

I hope she gets a nice settlement.

[Bassic]

5. This is completely ridiculous.

What were those cops thinking?

(Yay, 500 posts)

[BlueIris]

6. Ew. EW. EEEWWW!!!

My God. Waste of resources, anyone?

[johnnie]

7. Just by reading the accusations I say hang the cops

I don't need to hear what their side says, they will just tell a bullshit story anyway.

:eyes:

[Lilyhoney]

8. I listened to a book on tape from the library

called Women, Know Your Rights. It was about how the chicago police department has treated women in the 70's and 80's.

Will it ever stop?:shrug:

[skygazer]

9. My house was once raided by police

Looking for my ex husband who was a not very nice character (hence the "ex").

They tore the place apart, had about 30 cops and a dog in there, tore out the ceiling panels, dumped all the bureau drawers, poured out the spices, etc. (found nothing).

The main thing that I was worried about as I stood helplessly on the lawn and watched stuff fly around through the windows? Previously, some idiot had given the hubby a stack of really raunchy porn mags - the kind that feature very large and unattractive women ("Big Mamas" I think they were called). Hubby had no use for them and had tossed them in a drawer or something but all I could think of was that these cops were going to find them and think that's what we read. Somehow, that was far worse than knowing all my neighbors were watching my place get ransacked.

[seemunkee]

10. Can your ex fit in a spice bottle?

What was the point of that?