Only in Texas: Body cavity search of scantily clad women on the motorway

[OneFootInTheGrave]

Those Texan cops are at it again

Brandy Hamilton, 26, and Alexandria Randle, 24, are suing the Texas Department of Public Safety and the sheriff of Brazoria County, Texas, where the stop occurred. Their lawyer alleges that the search was meant to humiliate them and was conducted without probable cause.

The female officer who performed the invasive search, which included sticking a finger in the women's vaginas, is accused of using the same pair of gloves to search both women. The entire 40-minute traffic stop was caught on the trooper's dashboard camera.

Attorney Allie R. Booker told MailOnline her client's case is startling similar to a July 2012 case in Dallas in which DPS trooper Kelly Helleson aggressively searched Angel Dobbs and her niece, Ashley Dobbs - including giving them a body cavity search and not changing gloves between searching the two women.

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DPS trooper Turner immediately asks both women to step out of their car. Both were wearing only their two-piece swimsuits from their time at the beach.

Ms Hamilton, the driver, asks if she can put her dress on to cover up.

'Don't worry about it. Come out here,' the trooper tells her.

They are also saving on gloves involved, well known Texan thrift.

[Egbert]

Uncivilised place, Texas. Wild west.

[Wezil]

The only State in the Union I actively avoid.

I made the mistake of transferring through the Houston airport in April and had to spend a night on the floor.

****ing Texas.

[Dinner]

That's just abusive.

[Wezil]

I flew United.

[KrazyHorse]

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[Dinner]

It's possible that race also played a part as the officer was white and the two women were black. I don't see why any sort of search was even legal much less excusable because the initial stop was just for a slight speeding ticket then the female officer decided to really start violating rights.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

On the plus side, one of the police officers concerned has already been fired and the other is in an ocean of ****.

[OneFootInTheGrave]

It is interesting though that they fired the woman who was called to do the "task", but the officer starting the whole thing is only in an ocean of pinkhearts, not fired yet. Was the female officer supposed to resist the inappropriate order, or how does that work over there?

[DinoDoc]

Thread useless without pics

I'm not sure you really want pics.

[onodera]

This sounds like the beginning of a m+/ff nc story from ASSTR.

[H Tower]

It is interesting though that they fired the woman who was called to do the "task", but the officer starting the whole thing is only in an ocean of pinkhearts, not fired yet. Was the female officer supposed to resist the inappropriate order, or how does that work over there?

Not switching gloves comes to mind as a reason to fire her.

It's possible that race also played a part as the officer was white and the two women were black. I don't see why any sort of search was even legal much less excusable because the initial stop was just for a slight speeding ticket then the female officer decided to really start violating rights.

Initial traffic stop was for speeding, but the officer said he smelled marijuana, and found a smoked blunt in the car.

I guess this is the reason for the cavity search...
From the article:

One of them has got her zipper open on her pants of her daisy dukes shorts - whatever they are,' the trooper says on the radio.

I see how the cops got from pulling over a speeding car to ending up doing a cavity search. Based on the repercussions that have happened to the officers, I would have to guess that they did not follow official procedure(especially not female officer one glove).

[Docfeelgood]

Nasty job

[snoopy369]

Eh, I think it should be very hard to require a body cavity search. More than just 'smell marijuana' or find a blunt (unless that itself was sufficient for an arrest - in which case take them into custody and do whatever you normally do at the jail). That's a significant invasion of both privacy and body.

[Docfeelgood]

Eh, I think it should be very hard to require a body cavity search. More than just 'smell marijuana' or find a blunt (unless that itself was sufficient for an arrest - in which case take them into custody and do whatever you normally do at the jail). That's a significant invasion of both privacy and body.

concur