November 6th, 2013
Sheriff’s deputies in New Mexico pull over a man for rolling through a stop sign on the way out of a Wal-Mart. They ask him to get out of the car and decide that he is “clenching his buttocks” and must be muling drug. Then it gets medieval:
While officers detained Eckert, they secured a search warrant from a judge that allowed for an anal cavity search.
The lawsuit claims that Deming Police tried taking Eckert to an emergency room in Deming, but a doctor there refused to perform the anal cavity search citing it was “unethical.”
But physicians at the Gila Regional Medical Center in Silver City agreed to perform the procedure and a few hours later, Eckert was admitted.
While there, Eckert was subjected to repeated and humiliating forced medical procedures. A review of Eckert’s medical records, which he released to KOB, and details in the lawsuit show the following happened:
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.
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[…] To be fair, or something, Eckert could have avoided this had he not been walking funny. [via JVL] […]
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So…..
1) If you’re on the jury for these lawsuits (hypothetically, say you get to be on all three), how much do you award this guy? A million? 10 million?
2) If David Eckert ends up getting a $5 million settlement out of it….would that be worth the trouble? More clearly asked, would you go through the following for $5 million?
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Once Obamacare kicks in, it will be police academy cadets giving the enemas.
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Holy, uh, shit.
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Cop tasers woman when she refuses to show him her breasts: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/woman-tasered-refusing-flash-suit-article-1.1506965
To quote the great sage of the late-80s/early-90s, Flava Flav “Fuck da Police”
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Doesn’t this qualify as rape? Seems like there should be criminal charges filed.
SkinsFanPG November 6, 2013 at 12:36 pm
There is a reason NM is called “The Land of Entrapment”
oh wait, meant “Enchantment”