Civil rights attorney says Hispanic officers may have targeted 'white boy' because they 'don't like him living in their community'
Cops said he had "clenched buttcheeks"..........MORON COPS!!! You dirty bastards!!
Police forced 63 yr old New Mexico scrap metal tradesman David Eckert to undergo two digital anal probes, three enema insertions and ultimately a colonoscopy after officers incorrectly assumed he was concealing drugs, according to a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court on his behalf.
No drugs were found by police or doctors at the Gila Regional Medical Center in Silver City, N.M. The exhaustive search began when Eckert allegedly rolled through a stop sign in Deming, N.M., on Jan. 2, 2013.
Albuquerque civil rights attorney Shannon Kennedy is representing Eckert and says she is seeking "in excess of $1 million in punitive damages alone" from the law enforcement and medical personnel responsible and their employers.
[UPDATE: Second Anal Probe Lawsuit Being Filed Against N.M. Police]
"We see this as a multimillion-dollar case," Kennedy said. "This is essentially medical anal rape, numerous times over a 12-hour period. I can't imagine anything more horrifying than what happened to our client. It's just sadistic."
The apparent justification for the search, Kennedy said, was that police believed Eckert's buttocks were clenched during the traffic stop.
But, she said, it's also possible the officers just didn't like how her client looks.
"Maybe the officers who did this don't like him living in their community," said Kennedy. "He's a white boy, a scraggly white boy, and all these officers are Hispanic. It's a New Mexico thing."
[READ: U.S. Police Made One Arrest Every 2 Seconds in 2012]
Kennedy said her client, 63-years-old when he was detained, looks somewhat like rocker Tom Petty and says he denies standing with his buttocks clenched.
where is Sharpton and Jackson when you need them?
Cops said he had "clenched buttcheeks"..........MORON COPS!!! You dirty bastards!!
Police forced 63 yr old New Mexico scrap metal tradesman David Eckert to undergo two digital anal probes, three enema insertions and ultimately a colonoscopy after officers incorrectly assumed he was concealing drugs, according to a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court on his behalf.
No drugs were found by police or doctors at the Gila Regional Medical Center in Silver City, N.M. The exhaustive search began when Eckert allegedly rolled through a stop sign in Deming, N.M., on Jan. 2, 2013.
Albuquerque civil rights attorney Shannon Kennedy is representing Eckert and says she is seeking "in excess of $1 million in punitive damages alone" from the law enforcement and medical personnel responsible and their employers.
[UPDATE: Second Anal Probe Lawsuit Being Filed Against N.M. Police]
"We see this as a multimillion-dollar case," Kennedy said. "This is essentially medical anal rape, numerous times over a 12-hour period. I can't imagine anything more horrifying than what happened to our client. It's just sadistic."
The apparent justification for the search, Kennedy said, was that police believed Eckert's buttocks were clenched during the traffic stop.
But, she said, it's also possible the officers just didn't like how her client looks.
"Maybe the officers who did this don't like him living in their community," said Kennedy. "He's a white boy, a scraggly white boy, and all these officers are Hispanic. It's a New Mexico thing."
[READ: U.S. Police Made One Arrest Every 2 Seconds in 2012]
Kennedy said her client, 63-years-old when he was detained, looks somewhat like rocker Tom Petty and says he denies standing with his buttocks clenched.
where is Sharpton and Jackson when you need them?
