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Stop Local Police and Sheriff Departments from performing Illegal Rectal and Forced Medical Exams of Suspects

Created by N.H. on January 26, 2014

Recent accounts of unconstitutional searches and invasive, forced medical procedures performed on a suspect per law enforcement requests are horrifying and must be stopped. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/26/opinion/sunday/kristof-3-enemas-later-...
The case of David Eckert and Timothy Young from Hidalgo County, New Mexico, who were taken in handcuffs to medical facilities and forced to undergo X-Rays, rectal examinations, and in Eckert's case, a colonoscopy, must be investigated and prevented from happening again. Law enforcement personnel who abuse their power in this way should be terminated and prosecuted. Similarly, hospitals who perform these procedures and bill the suspects for them should lose their accreditation, and doctors their medical license.

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