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Cops force-search woman's vagina for 11 minutes at road site

TD, 20 years in state prison for rape? That's a little overkill. One - it was the female cop who searched the girl. The male cop didn't touch her. It wasn't a "rape". I'd be happy if the cop who searched her got fired and the guy who stood there doing nothing about it got fired also.

A civil lawsuit should and is being pursued.

You're claiming it wasn't rape because it was a female cop? Still rape.
 
This is a travesty from beginning to end.....how difficult would it have been to handcuff, transport to a secure facility out of public view, and then search?
 
Here is an unedited vid of the dashcam.

make your own conclusions instead of being sheep.

http://www.yourhoustoncriminallawyers.com/body-cavity-search


They should have taken her back to the precinct to do the search. As the cop sitting with the guy she was with said, she's refusing to be searched. I don't know what they were holding her for so long, maybe waiting for a superior's permission to continue the search.
 
TD, 20 years in state prison for rape? That's a little overkill. One - it was the female cop who searched the girl. The male cop didn't touch her. It wasn't a "rape". I'd be happy if the cop who searched her got fired and the guy who stood there doing nothing about it got fired also.

A civil lawsuit should and is being pursued.

public officials who violate rights are committing a worse crime than a private citizen since they have the power of the state behind them. the violation was both state and federal and thus the penalty should be so much more severe
 
public officials who violate rights are committing a worse crime than a private citizen since they have the power of the state behind them. the violation was both state and federal and thus the penalty should be so much more severe

I agree to the extent of what factually happened. I don't know what the laws in Texas are, but it was apparently procedure when someone resists. The entire video tends to bear that out. They need to change the law and the procedure.
 
TD, 20 years in state prison for rape? That's a little overkill. One - it was the female cop who searched the girl. The male cop didn't touch her. It wasn't a "rape". I'd be happy if the cop who searched her got fired and the guy who stood there doing nothing about it got fired also.

A civil lawsuit should and is being pursued.

It was assault, apparently protected by the badge.
 
Lots of basically useless teeth gnashing here. Officers do not have complete immunity, they have qualified immunity and anyone who thinks about it for more than a few emotional seconds can understand why it's necessary. Make it so that every belligerent drunk driver, gang banger, child raper, or any disgruntled person who doesn't like that they were arrested can tie up a police officer in litigation and let's just not even bother with having police officers anymore.
In theory you are correct. But the teeth-gnashing is legit because in practical reality it is used to shield illegal behavior in all but the most blatant cases, and even only then if they happened to be caught on video. All an officer has to do is utter some magic words, "I feared for my safety.", or similar. The issue of qualified immunity wouldn't be an issue if the system treated it as intended and didn't bend over backward to protect itself and its own by issuing so many 'get out of jail free' cards.
 
No, I'm claiming is wasn't rape, because of what I saw on the video. The unedited video here Your Houston Criminal Lawyers Defend Harris County Resident from Brutal Body Cavity Search

The title of the OP is inflammatory. They didn't "search her vagina for 11 minutes" And it wasn't "cops" as in plural.

In many crimes accessories are just as guilty as the one who actually commits the offense. For right or for wrong, our legal standards have evolved to this. A police officer's job is to enforce and uphold the law. If what the female officer did was illegal, and the male officer acted as a lookout, essentially, then he could be considered an accessory and should be held to the same standards that any regular civilian would.
 
public officials who violate rights are committing a worse crime than a private citizen since they have the power of the state behind them. the violation was both state and federal and thus the penalty should be so much more severe
Agreed. The way I phrase it is that they are given a certain amount of leeway due to their trustworthiness, and if they blatantly break the law they also break the public's trust, which is worse than simply breaking the law.
 
In many crimes accessories are just as guilty as the one who actually commits the offense. For right or for wrong, our legal standards have evolved to this. A police officer's job is to enforce and uphold the law. If what the female officer did was illegal, and the male officer acted as a lookout, essentially, then he could be considered an accessory and should be held to the same standards that any regular civilian would.

And that's the question.....was it illegal? I do not know.
 
TD, 20 years in state prison for rape? That's a little overkill. One - it was the female cop who searched the girl. The male cop didn't touch her. It wasn't a "rape". I'd be happy if the cop who searched her got fired and the guy who stood there doing nothing about it got fired also.

A civil lawsuit should and is being pursued.

Who the **** walks around hiding a gram of pot in their vagina? NOONE. The cop obviously had other intentions. To ridicule and rape the girl with her fingers, because she could.
 
Who the **** walks around hiding a gram of pot in their vagina? NOONE. The cop obviously had other intentions. To ridicule and rape the girl with her fingers, because she could.

.02 ounces. Let's see... 28, move the decimal two spaces left, times 2... half a gram. About $3 worth.
 
Maybe it's not, but I don't see how it can not be.

Just read up a little and apparently it was legal at that time. Afterwards they passed a law that a warrant needed to be obtained before any roadside cavity search can be done. As ridiculous and disgusting as it is, it was legal in 2015 when the incident happened.

Side note: What's up Texas? This apparently happens more than enough to need a new law?

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/tex...dy-cavity-searches-will-now-require-a-warrant
 
ANY Man or Woman who did that to a daughter of mine would never have another restful nights sleep until I did.
 
.02 ounces. Let's see... 28, move the decimal two spaces left, times 2... half a gram. About $3 worth.


The point being that it is highly likely that the girl did not have any up her cooch. In this country today, there is a high probability that the wee bit was planted. The Lucifer Effect in play?
 
Just read up a little and apparently it was legal at that time. Afterwards they passed a law that a warrant needed to be obtained before any roadside cavity search can be done. As ridiculous and disgusting as it is, it was legal in 2015 when the incident happened.

Side note: What's up Texas? This apparently happens more than enough to need a new law?

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/tex...dy-cavity-searches-will-now-require-a-warrant
Think of all the seemingly stupid laws we have. Then think that we are a reactionary society.

Kinda scary.
 
Its illegal to rape someone. Its illegal for me to brandish my genitals bare in public. This cop had to of broken the law. Many laws. Just because its legal for doctors to cut someone open doesnt give them the right to go around cutting people open on public streets. Just because some law said (an imaginary law if you will) YOU CAN THROW AWAY ANYTHING you want into garbage bins during an emergency doesnt give people the right to throw other people into trash cans.
 
Yeah, I'm not going to watch that video. That is horrible. There are procedures for doing body cavity searches when there is probable cause or an arrest and that ain't it. You take them back to the station and have a same-sex officer do the search in a private room.

It wouldn't even happen in California today, not for a baggie of weed. On any given day in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco, we have female drug dealers who do hide contraband (pills) in their genitals, but even that isn't a priority that's going to require an 11 minute search.
 
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