Outcry over Sheriff's Department search methods:
Reason to Blow Up the World...
Two years ago, Tunde Clement stepped off a bus at the city's main terminal downtown.
Clement, a black man, was carrying a backpack and coming from New York City. That may have been enough to pique the interest of undercover sheriff's investigators scanning the crowd with their eyes.
They cornered Clement and began peppering him with questions.
He was quickly handcuffed and falsely arrested. He was taken to a station to be strip-searched and then to a hospital, where doctors forcibly sedated him with a cocktail of powerful drugs, including one that clouded his memory of the incident.
A camera was inserted in his rectum, he was forced to vomit and his blood and urine were tested for drugs and alcohol. Scans of his digestive system were performed using X-ray machines, according to hospital records obtained by the Times Union.
The search, conducted without a search warrant, came up empty.
Usually I'm a huge supporter of police but when a blatant abuse of power happens like this I'll be the first to call for that department to be investigated and those officers to be fired. Having a suspect, innocent or guilty, submit unwillingly to a colonoscopy is not only illegal search and seizure, in my mind it's nothing short of rape.
One point for racial profiling, another point for illegal search and seizure, another point for basically sodomizing an innocent man, and one last point for blatant abuse of power. It's cops like you that make people hate cops. That's four.
Nod of Doom to LateElf.
Where are the charges against the cops?
Trench writes: "It's cops like you that make people hate cops."
Yep...sure does. It also makes the rest of us no account civilians nervous and VERY skeptical when police act with complete immunity and do things that would get the rest of us no account civilians tossed away for a long time. Want the trust of the public back? Start punishing "your own" and stop with the code of silence between cops. You might also want to try being accountable and holding your fellow officers accountable at the same level we no account civilians are...personally, I think you should be held to a HIGHER standard...but at this point, I'll take equal. Isn't going to happen...I know.
FYI: "No Account Civilians" is a term I saw repeatedly used on a cop website to describe those that weren't cops. *sniff sniff*...I smell pork.