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Bad Cop, Not Donut: Black woman strip searched for broken tail light by Baltimore PD
Baltimore police strip-searched a woman in public for a broken taillight
By Kate Irby
It started when the woman was pulled over for a routine traffic stop for a broken taillight. It ended with her strip-searched on the side of a road, with a female officer even searching her anal cavity in public.
While one of the worst examples of officer misconduct in the Department of Justice’s report on the Baltimore Police Department, it’s far from the only one. The report, released Wednesday after a 14-month investigation, concludes the BPD engages in a pattern of practice of unconstitutional stops, searches and arrests; unfairly targeting black people; excessive force; and retaliation.
“This pattern or practice is driven by systemic deficiencies in BPD’s policies, training, supervision and accountability structures that fail to equip officers with the tools they need to police effectively and within the bounds of the federal law,” the report concludes.
In the incident, the officers ordered the woman to exit her vehicle, stand on the side of the road and take her clothes off. The woman asked the officer in charge, “I really gotta take all my clothes off?”
The officer told her yes and says he had a female officer search the woman. The female officer put on latex gloves and searched the woman’s bra area before pulling down her underwear and searching her anal cavity.
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article94829582.html#fmp#storylink=cpy
By Kate Irby
It started when the woman was pulled over for a routine traffic stop for a broken taillight. It ended with her strip-searched on the side of a road, with a female officer even searching her anal cavity in public.
While one of the worst examples of officer misconduct in the Department of Justice’s report on the Baltimore Police Department, it’s far from the only one. The report, released Wednesday after a 14-month investigation, concludes the BPD engages in a pattern of practice of unconstitutional stops, searches and arrests; unfairly targeting black people; excessive force; and retaliation.
“This pattern or practice is driven by systemic deficiencies in BPD’s policies, training, supervision and accountability structures that fail to equip officers with the tools they need to police effectively and within the bounds of the federal law,” the report concludes.
In the incident, the officers ordered the woman to exit her vehicle, stand on the side of the road and take her clothes off. The woman asked the officer in charge, “I really gotta take all my clothes off?”
The officer told her yes and says he had a female officer search the woman. The female officer put on latex gloves and searched the woman’s bra area before pulling down her underwear and searching her anal cavity.
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article94829582.html#fmp#storylink=cpy
I'm almost at the point of changing the name of this post series to "Fuck The Police." Almost...
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Yay drug war!
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