http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/11/1410967/-After-officer-says-he-smelled-marijuana-Texas-woman-given-humiliating-cavity-search-in-parking-lot?detail=email
Charnesia Corley, a 21-year-old woman from Spring, Texas (north of Houston) was pulled over by a Harris County deputy for allegedly running a stop sign. After searching her vehicle for more than an hour and finding nothing, he did what can only be described as utterly outrageous. From the Houston Chronicle:
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 Corley's legs apart to conduct the probe.
All of this happened in the parking lot of a Texaco gas station. In the end, police did charge her with possession of half a gram of marijuana. HALF A GRAM. Needless to say, Corley and her attorney are filing a lawsuit.
Rebecca Robertson, legal and policy director of the ACLU of Texas, said the cavity search without a warrant was a "blatant" violation of the Fourth Amendment, and that an orifice probe was the most invasive search possible.
"A body cavity search without a warrant would be constitutionally suspect," she said. "But a body cavity search by the side of the road... I can't imagine a circumstance where that would be constitutional."
For what it's worth, the sheriff's office has a device they can use to see hidden contraband, even in the most sensitive places. The entire parking lot search was unnecessary from the start. And that half a gram of marijuana? It'll likely end up being the most expensive half a gram of marijuana that Harris County has ever seen.
speaking as one who has been pulled over it's another unwritten Black directive they can see you any movement either way prompts the me White police you potential Black criminal mentality to kick in. now after an hour search turning up nothing but finding half a gram in places that involve physical violation when did she put it there and if you are smoking in the car you do it with the windows cracked if the police lights you up the windows go all the way down before you stop.
this cop like most lately on a power trip and this pervert sought to humiliate and embarrass and kill her self esteem this treatment of Black women of late beatings, slinging around, on the ground knee and foot in place, abusing and murdering is revealing a pattern of degradation with just as much fervor as they exert against Black men getting to the point where a sign change is in order "no Black people matter at all men, women or children"
as to what a half a gram is this might help, you have to imagine those things as half of the weight of what they are.
