Have you had you roadside body cavity search yet?

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Two Texas women are suing after state troopers subjected them to a humiliating and invasive 'roadside body cavity search' that was caught on video.​
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Female trooper Kellie Helleson is seen in the footage aggressively searching the private parts of Angel Dobbs, 38, and her niece, Ashley Dobbs, 24, in front of passing cars.​
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The women, who claim the trooper used the same rubber glove for both of them, were initially stopped by Helleson's colleague David Farrell on State Highway 161 near Irving after he saw one of them throw a cigarette butt out the window.​
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another Patrol Officer David Farrell traffic stop exit 477 on I35
Seems he has a nose for marijuana


A K-9 unit from Corinth Texas was called in and it alerted (false alert given by the handler, Officer Carson Crow). The vehicle was then searched, nothing was found, but the man was arrested for Resisting Arrest.
 
Once again, this is why the war on drugs is really a war on people. Drugs is the excuse the police use over and over to harass citizens and often confiscate their property.
 
Judy Tentuta had a stand up routine, years ago, talking about being pulled over for speeding in the South for a woman meant you'd be strip searched. I used to think it was funny. Then I learned more about the police in the South. Egads!
 
faethor said:
Judy Tentuta had a stand up routine, years ago, talking about being pulled over for speeding in the South for a woman meant you'd be strip searched. I used to think it was funny. Then I learned more about the police in the South. Egads!
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You are fooling yourself if you think this is only happening in the south.
 
Law enforcement authorities in this East Texas town of Tenaha, population 1,000, seized property from at least 140 motorists between 2006 and 2008, and, to date, filed criminal charges against fewer than half. Virtually anything of value was up for grabs: cash, cell phones, personal jewelry, a pair of sneakers, and often, the very car that was being driven through town. Some affidavits filed by officers relied on the presence of seemingly innocuous property as the only evidence that a crime had occurred.


Federal court filings late Friday show Tenaha and Shelby County have agreed to an “impartial policing policy” to better document and monitor traffic stops. The documents show defendants also have agreed to pay $520,000 in legal fees.

The city of Tenaha and Shelby County officials named in the suit are no longer in office. The Shelby County constable who stopped Agonstini and the district attorney have resigned. A district attorney’s office investigator named in the suit has retired. Voters in June turned Tenaha’s mayor out of office after 48 years, ending the term of the longest-serving mayor in Texas history.
Campbell was appointed to the county’s top administrative job in 2009, after the county judge who served during the height of seizure activity on Highway 59 died of cancer.

Nov 2012: Shelby County has dismissed all pending forfeiture cases, even those without a connection to Tenaha.

In 2011, Texas changed its forfeiture and seizure laws as a result of news reports about Tenaha. Law enforcement agencies must now account for money collected though a seizure or property sale. And law enforcement agencies cannot use the funds to boost officer salaries or to pay bonuses without the permission of an elected body.
 
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