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This story is so bad you would think it was fiction. But at least this poor guy has been awarded $1.6 million. I just wish the money would come from the LE pension fund. That's the only way to make them care about abuse of power. If I were on the jury, I would have added another zero to this award.
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The Associated Press reports that the city of Deming, New Mexico, where David Eckert was pulled over for a rolling stop last January, and nearby Hidalgo County have agreed to settle a civil rights lawsuit he filed after cops from those two jurisdictions forced him to undergo a humiliating exploration of his digestive tract. The city and county will pay Eckert $1.6 million, which amounts to $200,000 for each of the increasingly intrusive searches performed on Eckert at Gila Regional Medical Center in Silver City: two X-rays, two digital probes of his anus, three enemas, and a colonoscopy, none of which discovered the slightest trace of the drugs that police claim to have thought he was hiding inside himself. Eckert, whose case was first noted here by Brian Doherty, also sued various Deming and Hidalgo County police officers; the hospital, which billed him more than $6,000 for these indignities; and two physicians, Robert Wilcox and Okay Odocha, who executed the elaborate assault under the cover of medicine.
All the cops and personnel involved should be fired and the Police should face criminal charges. Forget about out of their pension funds, start giving rogue cops heavy fines. Have them come directly out of their paychecks and personal savings.
This story is so bad you would think it was fiction. But at least this poor guy has been awarded $1.6 million. I just wish the money would come from the LE pension fund. That's the only way to make them care about abuse of power. If I were on the jury, I would have added another zero to this award.
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The Associated Press reports that the city of Deming, New Mexico, where David Eckert was pulled over for a rolling stop last January, and nearby Hidalgo County have agreed to settle a civil rights lawsuit he filed after cops from those two jurisdictions forced him to undergo a humiliating exploration of his digestive tract. The city and county will pay Eckert $1.6 million, which amounts to $200,000 for each of the increasingly intrusive searches performed on Eckert at Gila Regional Medical Center in Silver City: two X-rays, two digital probes of his anus, three enemas, and a colonoscopy, none of which discovered the slightest trace of the drugs that police claim to have thought he was hiding inside himself. Eckert, whose case was first noted here by Brian Doherty, also sued various Deming and Hidalgo County police officers; the hospital, which billed him more than $6,000 for these indignities; and two physicians, Robert Wilcox and Okay Odocha, who executed the elaborate assault under the cover of medicine.
Until cops have to pay out of their own pockets or with their own blood, they just laugh this kind of thing off. I'm glad the guy won! He deserved it. The fines should be paid for by the cops themselves! After they did about 20 years in prison.
Sorry but no, this isn't justice. This is a payday. Theres a difference. Justice would have those cops in jail. They would be personally responsible for abuse of this sort. This was WAY WAY overboard. and they got off cheap.
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