bmac32 Loc: West Florida

February 3, 2014 by Ben Bullard
Residents Accuse Police Of Roadside Strip Searches In Georgia
SCREENSHOT
"He was like, 'Just unbuckle all your clothes,' and put his hands down inside my pants," said Terry Phillips.

Residents approached Atlanta media last week to complain about illegal roadside strip searches at the hands of multiple police departments in Georgia. A subsequent investigative report confirmed their allegations.

WSB-TV in Atlanta obtained dash-cam video of one traffic stop in which an officer turned his attention to one of the passengers after coming up empty on a consensual vehicle search for drugs.

Police in Forest Park, Ga., pulled over the wife — not named in the report — of Terry Phillips, who was riding as a passenger, on suspicion of driving with a suspended registration. But instead of conducting their business through the window, they ordered Phillips out of the car.

From WSB-TV:

“He was like, ‘Just unbuckle all your clothes,’ and put his hands down inside my pants,” said Terry Phillips.

Forest Park Police had pulled over Phillips’ wife for a suspended registration.

Phillips consented to a search, however on the officer’s dashboard camera recording Phillips can clearly be heard protesting when he realized the extent of the officer’s intentions.

“That’s illegal, man, you can’t do that. You can’t do that,” said Phillips to the officer. The officer continued.

“That’s a general strip-search, which you’re not allowed to do,” said Mark Bullman, Phillips’ attorney. “Unless it’s an emergency or it’s done in a controlled environment by professional people were other people aren’t there to look in a public setting. …You can’t be moving people’s clothing and opening them, particularly in situations where there’s not been a custodial arrest.”

Police must obtain a warrant to conduct a strip search, and those must be performed under controlled circumstances, after a suspect has been taken into custody, in order for any uncovered evidence to stand up to admissibility challenges during prosecution. This was just fishing — and it isn’t an isolated occurrence.

“Driver after driver told investigative reporter Jodie Fleischer officers searched inside their pants while they were stopped for minor traffic violations,” reports WSB-TV. “In several cases, the invasive searches targeted passengers who were riding in the car.”

http://personalliberty.com/2014/02/03/residents-accuse-police-of-roadside-strip-searches-in-georgia/

Kevyn

For years Sheriffs and local police in the south have been powers unto themselves running little backward fiefdoms and thumbing their noses at the bill of rights. It takes courageous leadership at the federal level to put guys like Bull Conner in their place and protect the rights of all Americans.

bmac32 Loc: West Florida

Guess you can't read well.

“That’s a general strip-search, which you’re not allowed to do,” said Mark Bullman, Phillips’ attorney. “Unless it’s an emergency or it’s done in a controlled environment by professional people were other people aren’t there to look in a public setting. …You can’t be moving people’s clothing and opening them, particularly in situations where there’s not been a custodial arrest.”

You must be nuts, get the feds involved, that is a local or state function. Cops overstepped their bounds and will likely see desk duty or be fired.

Kevyn

The feds and courts are usually the ones to bring rogue police agency's back into line, this of course with the help of brave individuals and patriot groups like the ACLU.

bmac32 Loc: West Florida

State Governor and state court are first but before that is any city or county that law enforcement people.

Patriot and ACLU have nothing in common.

mpix Loc: NorCal

Only in a progressives mind. Everything is kind of a blurry line.

permafrost Loc: Minnesota

As I have shown you in the past, the ACLU has done more for the right wing rabble than any other organization is our country. Must I remind you of the NSA lawsuit....

bmac32 Loc: West Florida

NSA has no effect on me. It's the information on companies that might bother someone. You know 'trade secrets'.

Armageddun Loc: The show me state

He knows that he is a plant paid to stir up trouble. Who else would make a stupid comment like that just in passing.

Armageddun Loc: The show me state

In your dreams. The ACLU is not for the right.

permafrost Loc: Minnesota

This is kinda long so I put a couple of excerpts below. I think you may like to read the entire post, it is written by a conservative blogger we did a serious look into the ACLU for his own knowledge. It has other examples that are not included in the portions I posted.. Also if you do a bit of research, dozens of other blogs are available to ck out.. have fun.. More to the ACLU then I ever thought...

saintelreport.blogspot.com/2011/11/myths-and-smears-about-aclu.html

In the aftermath of the Oklahoma City Bombing along with the bad image put upon m*****as, I and probably all those with a right wing point of view would want government policies to have as much oversight as possible.
In fact that's exactly what the ACLU was pushing for in response to Bill Clinton's military police plan and anti-terrorism legislation. Rush Limbaugh quoted the ACLU's criticism of the plan on his television show.

The ACLU is non partisan with who they represent. A few cases right wingers problably never heard were Rush Limbaugh's medical records case, Oliver North (Iran Contra- illegally selling weapons to Iran) and recently the DHS report warning of violent right wing extremist groups saying DHS Should Focus on Criminal Activity, Not Beliefs.

Armageddun Loc: The show me state

I have heard some good things about the ACLU. However, they have also taken what I consider bad positions on many cases.

permafrost Loc: Minnesota

Yes, they have, you, me and nearly everyone, finds some of their cases downright d********g... They claim that to defend the rights of all, they also defend the rights no else will champion.. Even when the lawyers involve do not support the cause...

Armageddun Loc: The show me state

I guess as in all things, we have to take the bad with the good. :thumbup: