[vinman]

New Mexico man David Eckert was pulled over on January 3 for failing to fully stop at a Wal-Mart parking lot stop sign.

What happened next was far from a routine traffic stop.

Officers claim Eckert was suspicious because he was “clenching his buttocks.” This was seen as probable cause to search the New Mexico man for drugs, which cops believed he was hiding in his anal cavity.

After obtaining a search warrant, officers took Eckert to a nearby medical center and forced him to undergo three enemas, a colonoscopy, an X-ray, and multiple cavity searches. The invasive searches took about 14 hours to complete.

No narcotics were found.

Now Eckert’s attorney is filing a federal lawsuit on behalf of the incident.

KOB-4 reported:

Eckert’s abdominal area was X-rayed; no narcotics were found.
Doctors then performed an exam of Eckert’s anus with their fingers; no narcotics were found.
Doctors performed a second exam of Eckert’s anus with their fingers; no narcotics were found.
Doctors penetrated Eckert’s anus to insert an enema. Eckert was forced to defecate in front of doctors and police officers. Eckert watched as doctors searched his stool. No narcotics were found.
Doctors penetrated Eckert’s anus to insert an enema a second time. Eckert was forced to defecate in front of doctors and police officers. Eckert watched as doctors searched his stool. No narcotics were found.
Doctors penetrated Eckert’s anus to insert an enema a third time. Eckert was forced to defecate in front of doctors and police officers. Eckert watched as doctors searched his stool. No narcotics were found.
Doctors then X-rayed Eckert again; no narcotics were found.
Doctors prepared Eckert for surgery, sedated him, and then performed a colonoscopy where a scope with a camera was inserted into Eckert’s anus, rectum, colon, and large intestines. No narcotics were found.

Shannon Kennedy, Eckert’s lawyer, claims that the warrant expired hours before the anal cavity searches were completed. She also said that what the officers did, if legal, could set a scary precedent.

She said, “If the officers in Hidalgo County and the City of Deming are seeking warrants for anal cavity searches based on how they’re standing and the warrant allows doctors at the ‘Gila Hospital of Horrors’ to go in and do enemas and colonoscopies without consent, then anyone can be seized.”

Eckert is suing the town of Deming as well as several Deming police officers.

Do you believe his rights were violated? Moreover, do you think this case is a frightening symbol of out-of-control police authority?




http://benswann.com/police-search-for-no...-searches/

[Christian McQueen]

Wow WTF??

He should get a nice settlement out of this.

[Walderschmidt]

That is pure power tripping.

[MHaes]

This is why I have no respect for cops.

[Enigma]

As if this wasn't already one of the most egregious things I have ever read, several other sites have reported that they are forcing him to pay for the medical procedures and have threatened to send him to collections.

"Adding insult to injury, Eckert was billed for the searches and has been threatened to be taken to collections if he doesn’t pay, according to the KOB report."

http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/blog/...index.html

[bacon]

Sounds like the police legally sodomized him

[Hotwheels]

If that guy ever has to work again it's a travesty.

If those cops, and as far as I'm concerned the doctors as well, work in their profession again it will also be a travesty.

I see lot's of travesties coming.

btw-Does the guy look like Walter White or something?

[Duke Castile]

This is horrible. I hope those cops get fired and he get's all their future wages.

[eradicator]

How did they even get a search warrant? I guess some judges in Deming will give warrants for nothing.

Quote:

Shannon Kennedy, Eckert’s lawyer, claims that the warrant expired hours before the anal cavity searches were completed. She also said that what the officers did, if legal, could set a scary precedent.

This is pretty key, if true. If they didn't have a valid warrant and did the searches anyways, isn't that an illegal search?

[Enigma]

(11-05-2013 04:54 PM)master_thespian Wrote:  

How did they even get a search warrant? I guess some judges in Deming will give warrants for nothing.

Quote:

Shannon Kennedy, Eckert’s lawyer, claims that the warrant expired hours before the anal cavity searches were completed. She also said that what the officers did, if legal, could set a scary precedent.

This is pretty key, if true. If they didn't have a valid warrant and did the searches anyways, isn't that an illegal search?

The search warrant was actually issued for Luna County. They had to take him to another county after the doctors at the hospital in Luna refused to perform the procedures citing it as unethical. The warrant had absolutely no validity within the jurisdiction where the actual searches were performed.

Supposedly the drug dog "signaled" the driver's seat and since he was clenching his buttocks, this was enough for the judge to give permission for him to be, essentially, raped numerous times.

This article and video from a local New Mexico news channel elaborates on the story more than the link in the OP:

http://www.kob.com/article/stories/s3209...nlnRBA_-QI

[vinman]

It gets worse.

Search Warrant Concerns

There are major concerns about the way the search warrant was carried out. Kennedy argues that the search warrant was overly broad and lacked probable cause. But beyond that, the warrant was only valid in Luna County, where Deming is located. The Gila Regional Medical Center is in Grant County. That means all of the medical procedures were performed illegally and the doctors who performed the procedures did so with no legal basis and no consent from the patient.

In addition, even if the search warrant was executed in the correct New Mexico county, the warrant expired at 10 p.m. Medical records show the prepping for the colonoscopy started at 1 a.m. the following day, three hours after the warrant expired.

"This is like something out of a science fiction film, anal probing by government officials and public employees," Kennedy said.

http://www.kob.com/article/stories/S3209...nlsYVMSCSp

[Christian McQueen]

Any RVF New Mexico civil lawyers?

Jump on this. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

[kazushu]

Fuck this, I never knew "clenching the buttocks" was probable cause. Sometimes you're just holding it in until you get home.

[bounce]

I love how freely judges allow cops to fuck people in the ass (literally). Because of a dog and clenched butt cheeks a judged signed a warrant. That is craziness. We expect cops to do this type of shit, but its the judge who should be held responsible.

Imagine the assholes voting this fucker into office. Please judge butt fuck anyone you please so we dont have to deal with the scourge of drugs in our community, unless they make over $100k.

And these dogs are another story. Think about it. Local police departments, most of which are cities of less than 100k, do not have the training to understand the intricacies of canine behavior. Sure the dogs are probably highly trained, but the cops weilding them are fucking idiots. I got pulled over once (I swear I had no drugs in my car) and they called in the k9 unit. Both dog and cop were totally incompetent. The dog runs out of the car barking his ass off and pulling the fat ass cop. Finally the cop got the dog to my car where he continued to bar nonstop. Somehow this justified a search warrant. They found nothing by the way.

[Handsome Creepy Eel]

Wow, that's really crazy. It's not the fact that this happened that's awful, but that it's considered so normal and just a small breach (if a breach at all) of police authority.

[PhilE]

As far as I know, the use of police dogs was so that they could OBTAIN warrants for "search and seizure". This is because you can't "eyeball" probable cause for extensive searches....

[InternationPlayboy]

Fucking pigs man. My grandpa was a law abiding citizen. He'd always say the biggest crooks of them all were the cops.

On the up and up, this dude is gonna get a fat settlement.

[outhustleu]

Kinda along the same line of thinking is forcibly taking blood of DUI suspects. I think this is legal in some states, in my state you always had hte right to refuse and though you would lose your license for 6 months automatically better than a DUI and losing your license for a year and all types of fines and other garbage. Anyhow, on certain holiday weekends theyy have had judges on call signing I guess search warrants or supenas to take blood forcibly. Overall policing is setting scary presidents.

[Zebra_Cakes]

How much do you think the man should be entitled to in terms of money paid? I'd want mid-seven figures, plus the doctors losing their licenses and the cops losing their jobs.

[WanderingSoul]

Sound like kidnap, torture and rape to me.

A regular citizen would get life for doing that. Pigs should get the same.

[scandibro]

(11-06-2013 12:35 PM)RioNomad Wrote:  

Sound like kidnap, torture and rape to me.

A regular citizen would get life for doing that. Pigs should get the same.

Yes, this is when the US will decide if they're a police state or not.

[outhustleu]

(11-06-2013 12:59 PM)scandibro Wrote:  

(11-06-2013 12:35 PM)RioNomad Wrote:  

Sound like kidnap, torture and rape to me.

A regular citizen would get life for doing that. Pigs should get the same.

Yes, this is when the US will decide if they're a police state or not.

We as citizens are way too passive. I was recently watching some police brutality videos and videos of people excercising their rights on youtube refusing to answer questions and such at police checkpoints.

It's funny as soon as someone flexes their rights and doesn't back down the police do...or if they don't it comes back to bite them in the end.

there was one vid where a cop punches a mentally disabled women on the train right in front of passengers for no reason and then tries to seize the camera from the Iraqi War Veteran taping it who didn't back down and refused.

When people see stuff like this they need to get involved, even if it requires violence against the cop, as at that point the cop is no longer an officer of the law but an armed attacker breaking the law himself.

Same in this instnace in this thread. The doctors should have stepped in and said you have a warrant for me to stick my hand in this mans ass? If not I'm not doing it.

[eradicator]

(11-06-2013 12:21 PM)Zebra_Cakes Wrote:  

How much do you think the man should be entitled to in terms of money paid? I'd want mid-seven figures, plus the doctors losing their licenses and the cops losing their jobs.

No idea about how much money the guy should get.

I don't think it's enough for the cops to lose their jobs and the doctors to lose their medical licenses for the rest of their lives. They (the cops and doctors do did the operations)should all go to jail for sexual assault and when they get out, should end up on a sex offender registry.

[Cr33pin]

[kdolo]

Are these cops homosexual sociopaths ????

"clenched buttocks" - how in the world do you tell if someone is clenching their buttocks ???