There is video. Google tx troopers being sued.
With the ever increasing police state, you never know when you might be pulled over. Even more frightening, you never know if you will be searched for the most frivolous of manners.
It is not news to anyone that the airports have virtually eliminated people’s rights. This can be credited to the illustrious TSA, and there invasive “security” procedures.
These procedures have also made their way to the streets. However, it is not only performed by the TSA road checkpoints, now it is performed by police officers.
Two Irving, Texas, residents have filed their claim against two state troopers they claim performed an illegal ““roadside body cavity search” after being stopped for tossing a cigarette butt out of the window.
According to Dallas News,“They claim that a female trooper, Kelley Helleson, used her fingers to search their anuses and v@ginas — using the same latex glove — while on the side of the road in full view of passing vehicles.”
Apparently,“probable cause” now means “probable suspicion.” It is an extreme act to have a “law” officer perform a humiliating cavity search for the broad reasoning of two women “acting weird.” It is something you would see in any of the past authoritarian regimes.
In addition, in a free society, generally,(we aren’t one by any stretch of the imagination) you do not have to worry about being randomly, and, I might add, invasively searched for “acting weird.”
Steven McCraw, director of the Texas Department of “Public Safety”[Quotes added], is also being sued by the women on the basis that McCraw was aware of prior complaints about “unlawful strip searches, cavity searches and the like” and failed to hold the officers accountable.
The attorney for the women, Scott H. Palmer, said the cavity searches were “sekual assault” on the side of the road.