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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIn Texas, police search woman’s vagina for marijuana
A Spring woman claims sheriffs deputies violated constitutional protections by conducting a body cavity search on the concrete of a Texaco gas station parking lot during a routine traffic stop in late June.
Charnesia Corley, a 21-year-old African American, was driving in northern Harris County around 10:30 p.m. on June 21 when a male deputy pulled her over for allegedly running a stop sign. He said he smelled marijuana, handcuffed Corley, put her in his vehicle and searched her car for almost an hour. He didnt find any pot, according to her attorney, Sam Cammack.
Returning to his car where Corley was held, the deputy again said he smelled marijuana and called in a female deputy to conduct a cavity search. When the female deputy arrived, she told Corley to pull her pants down, but Corley protested because she was cuffed and had no underwear on. The deputy ordered Corley to bend over, pulled down her pants and began to search her.
Then, according to Cammack, Corley stood up and protested, so the deputy threw her to the ground and restrained her while another female was called in to assist. When backup arrived, each deputy held one of Corleys legs apart to conduct the probe.
Charnesia Corley, a 21-year-old African American, was driving in northern Harris County around 10:30 p.m. on June 21 when a male deputy pulled her over for allegedly running a stop sign. He said he smelled marijuana, handcuffed Corley, put her in his vehicle and searched her car for almost an hour. He didnt find any pot, according to her attorney, Sam Cammack.
Returning to his car where Corley was held, the deputy again said he smelled marijuana and called in a female deputy to conduct a cavity search. When the female deputy arrived, she told Corley to pull her pants down, but Corley protested because she was cuffed and had no underwear on. The deputy ordered Corley to bend over, pulled down her pants and began to search her.
Then, according to Cammack, Corley stood up and protested, so the deputy threw her to the ground and restrained her while another female was called in to assist. When backup arrived, each deputy held one of Corleys legs apart to conduct the probe.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2015/08/13/in-texas-police-stick-hand-up-womans-vagina-to-search-for-marijuana/?hpid=z2
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In Texas, police search woman’s vagina for marijuana (Original Post)
spanone
Aug 2015
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Octafish
(55,745 posts)1. In public.
What police state? What war on civil rights?
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)2. Can't they just drive to Colorado and buy some?
Smarmie Doofus
(14,498 posts)3. Someone saw August: Osage County
Seriously.... how much marijuana......
Ehr..... never mind.
tapermaker
(244 posts)4. hollywood ,or some independent movie co. needs
to make a film about this and all the other mind blowing crap that comes out of Texas these days. Make it along the lines of American graffiti. Follow one or more colored females as they travel across the state, getting their own form of texas justice . Could you imagine this as an opening scene of a film dedicated to showing the Texas stupid for all the country to mock.
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)5. I hope she gets a million
spanone
(135,924 posts)6. i hope she gets 10 million.
cali
(114,904 posts)7. sexual assault. period.
Rex
(65,616 posts)8. Rape by state actors in public. But not a police state yet, just for Mrs. Corley.
Everyone else just move along. Nothing to see here.