More drug war anal probes, this time in Tennessee

"Last year we learned of three incidents in New Mexico in which motorists pulled over for moving violations were subjected to forced anal cavity searches, x-rays and even colonoscopies because police suspected they were hiding drugs in their bodies.  I pointed out in January that the practice has also been used in Texas, Illinois, Florida and Kansas.
It looks like Oak Ridge, Tenn., has been doing it, too."

 "An Oak Ridge man who says he was forced in June 2011 to submit to a digital rectal exam for suspected drugs — and no drugs were found — has filed a lawsuit in Anderson County Circuit Court."

"This is actually the second time a forcible anal probe has been challenged in a Tennessee courtroom. In 2011, the same doctor and the same police department performed a similar procedure on a man, also after a traffic stop.
Felix Booker’s defense attorney is hoping a jury hearing about the most controversial warrantless body cavity search in local law enforcement history will do what a federal judge would not — toss out a charge the 21-year-old Booker intended to sell the 5.7 grams of crack hidden in his rectum."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/10/09/more-drug-war-anal-probes-this-time-in-tennessee/


Anyone still doubt that we live in a police state?