A
Southern New Mexico traffic stop in January is just now getting publicity and
the light being thrown on it is horrifying. Deming has filed suit in federal court. His allegations have been reported in the
media, and are commented on here.
According
to his suit, and KOB.com: On January 2, 2013, after David Eckert
finished shopping at a Wal-Mart in Deming, he didn’t make a complete stop,
giving the police a pretext to pull him over.
Once they puled him over, Eckert was asked to get out of the car. It was then that he allegedly clenched his
butt. How the police saw this or what qualified as butt-clenching is
unclear. However, the local police took
this to mean, not that he was nervous about being stopped in general, but jumped
to the wild conclusion that he had drugs up his butt. Seriously, they went and got a search warrant
for his butt. A judge signed the search
warrant based on two cops saying that Demming, who has no prior convictions for
anything reported, had clenched his butt.
Then,
police took Eckert to the ER in Demming but a doctor refused to perform the
anal cavity search because it was unethical.
That’s an upstanding doctor.
This, however, didn’t stop the police or even give them pause. They took him to a different hospital in
Silver City, the Gila Regional Medical Center.
While there he was subjected to multiple forced medical procedures
including:
1.
Eckert's abdominal area was x-rayed; no narcotics were found.
2.
Doctors then performed an exam of Eckert's anus with their fingers; no
narcotics were found.
3.
Doctors performed a second exam of Eckert's anus with their fingers; no
narcotics were found.
4.
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.
5.
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.
6.
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.
7.
Doctors then x-rayed Eckert again; no narcotics were found.
8.
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.
Throughout
this ordeal, Eckert protested and never gave doctors at the Gila Regional
Medical Center consent to perform any of these medical procedures.
Eckert
has sued the City of Demming, the Demming Police Officers, the Sheriff’s
officers and District Attorney. He has
also sued the Gila Regional Medical Center and the doctors there. He should.
It’s insane.
How many tests does it take to show that a man, with no priors, has no drugs inside him? When does probable cause run out and abuse start. I’d argue that there was no probable cause in the first place. There was certainly no probable cause after the first x-ray, which was the least invasive way to get the information. Everything else was purely abusive and sadistic.
Original
and full story: http://www.kob.com/article/stories/s3209305.shtml#.Unp4nxDfmSo
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