Degrading. ?Humiliating. Violating. ?Those are only a few of the words that can even begin to describe the anal rapes being performed on men for traffic stops in New Mexico.
Two men have recently come forward to the media to tell their stories about being repeatedly x-rayed, anally probed by doctors fingers, forced to submit to enemas, and defecate in front of officers, and if that’s not bad enough being forced to undergo invasive colonoscopies where a camera was inserted all the way up into their large intestines.
And what did these two men do to deserve this kind of treatment? ?One did not come to a full stop at a stop sign, and one failed to signal while changing lanes. ?During their traffic stops, the same K9 dog alerted to the possible presence of drugs. ?No drugs were ever found. ?Read what ThinkProgress had to say:
A week after a lawsuit by David Eckert?revealed?that police transferred him to Gila Regional Medical Center for forced anal probes and a colonoscopy, Timothy Young says state police transferred him to the same hospital for similar procedures because the same drug dog alerted drug detection during the traffic stop. In both instances, the doctors found no drugs, according to a KOB 4 review of medical records.
In its?initial report?on Eckert, KOB 4 had said the reason Eckert was transferred to the hospital for invasive searches was because police believed Eckert was clenching his buttocks to hide drugs. But the?release of the search warrant?reveals that Leo the K-9 alerted to the detection of drugs during both incidents.
In both instances, the police went outside the jurisdiction of the limited search warrant to have the procedures performed at Gila Regional Medical Center. And the drug dog, Leo the K-9, is not even registered in New Mexico as required by state law.
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