(Washington Times) Texas State Troopers are conducting illegal body cavity searches on the side of Texas highways after traffic stops, according to a recent lawsuit filed in federal court. Complaints have arisen from a number of women feel who violated and humiliated.
On Memorial Day 2012 Brandy Hamilton and Alexandria Randle were pulled over for speeding in Brazoria County, near Huston, Texas and subsequently given a roadside body cavity search—front and back—because the officer that pulled them over smelled marijuana that was ultimately never found. The state troopers involved were fired after and investigation, but the female officer who physically performed the cavity search has been recently reinstated.
Six weeks earlier, on the opposite side of the state, two women had a disturbingly similar experience on a Texas highway. Thirty-eight year-old Angel Dobbs and her 24-yearl-old niece were also given a cavity search when troopers observed them throw a cigarette butt out their car window.
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to protect and to serve. what a joke
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