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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBad 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 Justices report on the Baltimore Police Department, its 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 BPDs 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 womans 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 Justices report on the Baltimore Police Department, its 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 BPDs 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 womans 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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Bad Cop, Not Donut: Black woman strip searched for broken tail light by Baltimore PD (Original Post)
MrScorpio
Aug 2016
OP
This is disgusting. Who the hell asks people to submit to this except facists? She should sue.
MichiganVote
Aug 2016
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ailsagirl
(22,897 posts)1. OMG!!
This is monstrous
xfundy
(5,105 posts)2. This shit has got to stop.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,855 posts)3. YouTube offers other examples of it.
It doesn't only happen to black people, for whatever that's worth.
It sure seems to happen to women more frequently, though. Either that, or those are just the stories that get more attention.
EDIT: Well, it's not quite the same. I've never yet heard of someone being stripped naked in public for such a search! Other examples that I've seen have been more like this:
MichiganVote
(21,086 posts)4. This is disgusting. Who the hell asks people to submit to this except facists? She should sue.
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)5. After November 8, Trump won't be allowed within 100 yards of the White House.
The Secret Service will ensure he is never allowed to be that close to President Clinton.
zentrum
(9,865 posts)6. This is actually
..a sexual assault. Racist and perverted.
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)7. kick
uponit7771
(90,347 posts)8. Soooooo, that's not sexual assault?!?! I'd lawyer up if I was the lady and press the issue no doubt
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)9. Lemme guess, they "smelled weed" again.
Yay drug war!
cali
(114,904 posts)10. The DOJ's report is devastating. The practices and racism imbedded in the BPD
are atrocious.
Fuck the Baltimore Police Department.