Originally Posted By ecdc So he definitely had this coming: <a target="blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/11/05/1253274/-Absolutely-unimaginable-this-could-happen-in-America">http://www.dailykos.com/story/...-America</a> How's that drug war working out again?
Originally Posted By fkurucz It has gotten to the point where I fear the police far, far more than I fear criminals.
Originally Posted By skinnerbox At first I was in shock after reading this story and watching the news video, but then I remembered the infamous study done at Yale in 1961 called the Milgram Experiment (<a target="blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...periment</a>). It's bad enough that this immoral and unethical behavior actually happened to this guy at the hands of law enforcement and complicit medical personnel. But for the cops to knowingly break the law to carry this out, makes it doubly heinous. They had zero legal authority to take Mr. Eckert out of Luna County where the search warrant was issued and into Grant County when the first medical facility they went to in Luna County denied to do the medical procedures. The medical staff at the hospital in Grant County should have refused to perform these exams as did the personnel in Luna County since it's against their Hippocratic Oath to perform medically unnecessary invasive procedures. There was no point to this other than the law enforcement officers getting their jollies by torturing this guy. And since this is yet another state seemingly hellbent on becoming another crazytown bigoted place like Texas, I'll bet you dollars to donuts that the officers and the judge issuing the search warrant were white and Mr. Eckert was not. betchya betchya betchya
Originally Posted By DyGDisney I think Mr. Eckert will soon be a very rich man. But at what cost? Where is our "freedom" when this could happen to ANY one of us? Don't clinch your butt cheeks if you get pulled over by the police. :/
Originally Posted By Tikiduck I hope he and his lawyer clean that county out. Police have become the civilian military, and far too many have become power drunk bullies. A lot of their physical encounters could be avoided if they were a little more civil and polite.
Originally Posted By fkurucz >>But for the cops to knowingly break the law to carry this out, makes it doubly heinous.<< What makes it even more heinous is that cops don't get punished for doing this kind of stuff. <a target="blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://thecommonsenseshow.com/siteupload/2013/05/police-militarized1.jpg">http://thecommonsenseshow.com/...zed1.jpg</a>
