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In reply to the discussion: Texas women sue over cavity search. "The officer didn't even change gloves!" (Warning:Very Graphic) [View all]cthulu2016
(10,960 posts)23. jberryhill, you cannot be going there. You know better.
I did not say it was a good search, an appropriate search, a legal search... if a review of the tape got both officers fired I wouldn't lose any sleep.
It's an appalling search... and particularly for pot.
Shocking. Disgusting.
But plainly not a "cavity search." And yes, these petty little falsehoods do have a bad effect on society.
From a civil liberties perspective I prefer that allegations of police misconduct be rigorously truthful.
I am one of the bigger nut civil liberties types here and would be delighted to see cases like this go somewhere on their actual merits.
The search may well be equally wrong with or without a cavity search, but when a witness leads off with a sensational misrepresentation of fact it takes away credibility.
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Texas women sue over cavity search. "The officer didn't even change gloves!" (Warning:Very Graphic) [View all]
aaaaaa5a
Dec 2012
OP
WHY THE FUCK IS THIS NOT A "Cavity search"? You've said that multiple times with NO explanation.
EOTE
Dec 2012
#35
"One can argue that the level of intrusion is tantamount to a cavity search"
jberryhill
Dec 2012
#19
Very confused by your posts here - HOW DO YOU EXPLAIN THE WOMAN'S ON SCENE COMMENT???
jsmirman
Dec 2012
#49
If the police officer was only searching externalities, why did she put her hand down their pants?
Uncle Joe
Dec 2012
#26
notice - cop didn't search anywhere but private parts - lots of feeling about breast
Liberal_in_LA
Dec 2012
#116
Then when the second lady was being searched, what was her hand doing down there for 12 seconds?
Sivafae
Dec 2012
#86
You can see the second woman flinch when those fingers get were they are going
jberryhill
Dec 2012
#95
You don't know if the officer stuck her fingers up the cavities of the women
Cali_Democrat
Dec 2012
#9
That's not the point. The fact that at minimum its debatable is enough for me. nt
aaaaaa5a
Dec 2012
#11
And it's your amazing dark world powers that allows you to determine that didn't happen?
EOTE
Dec 2012
#84
Probably have put them in stocks in the town square so everyone could have a good
RKP5637
Dec 2012
#104
Ugh. Sounds like something one should have a medical license to do..either one.
libdem4life
Dec 2012
#90
Thank god for the requirement for dash cameras. Progress. We know this crap has been going on
libdem4life
Dec 2012
#113
Prove it WASN'T a cavity search. This is 100 times worse than the "so what is rape" drivel.
libdem4life
Dec 2012
#67
Imagine the husbands, or sons, or daughters or family or neighbors...there is no end
libdem4life
Dec 2012
#94
Because your right to bodily autonomy is second to our right to FIND TEH WEEED
Warren DeMontague
Dec 2012
#109
glad they are suing the troopers directly, glad gloved one has been suspended
Liberal_in_LA
Dec 2012
#115