South Carolina Police Conduct Roadside Cavity Search

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South Carolina Police Conduct Roadside Cavity Search

Police officers in the South Carolina city of Aiken recorded themselves as they exposed an African-American driver’s breasts and searched her partner’s rectum.

The disturbing dashcam video from 2014 shows at least one member of the police department search inside the man’s rectum for the ‘crime’ of being a passenger in a car with a temporary paper license plate, which is not even illegal in South Carolina.

According to the Washington Post, the car belonged to a woman named Lakeya Hicks, who had the paper tags because she had recently purchased the vehicle. The tags had not expired, and a check on her license came up clean.

RT reports:

Instead, the federal lawsuit filed last year, and revealed this week as part of the Post’s investigation, says there were a number of procedural and constitutional failures, saying, “We refuse to create the suspect presumption in this state that every motorist traveling the highways with a temporary tag is guilty of driving an unregistered or uninsured car and is subject to detention until he or she can prove otherwise.”

Passenger Elijah Pontoon was handcuffed and told it was because of his criminal record, even though the lawsuit points out there is no law to justify it.

Just before officers searched the car with a sniffer dog without any probable cause, according to the lawsuit, Officer Chris Medlin referred to him with an old-fashioned racist slur.

“Because of your history, I’ve got a dog coming in here,” Medlin was heard saying. “Gonna walk a dog around the car. You gonna pay for this one, boy.”

Lakeya Hicks, who was then searched off camera, said her breasts were exposed to a busy road and three male police officers.

The cavity search of Pontoon also took place off camera. Audio from the footage suggests nothing was found during the incident yet both people were not let go.

“We search the car. There ain’t nothing in the car… And on a search of him, up in his crotch by the butt, I felt something hard,” Meldin concluded on the radio. “I lifted his pants and pulled the back of his underwear down and I didn’t see anything but I didn’t get all the way up in there to get no vertical up shot. I just pulled his underwear back, but I didn’t see nothing.”

12 Comments

  1. disgusting POS the police officer who said and did those things!!! Pretty sad day when they get enjoyment looking up someones butt!!!

  2. disgusting POS the police officer who said and did those things!!! Pretty sad day when they get enjoyment looking up someones butt!!!

  3. I have read where this sort of thing happens in Texas, but had no idea it happened in SC. From what I read and saw on the video, there was no probable cause to stop this car no matter who was in it. Apparently Jim Crow still lives in South Carolina. I am disgusted and hope justice is done for this family.

  4. I have read where this sort of thing happens in Texas, but had no idea it happened in SC. From what I read and saw on the video, there was no probable cause to stop this car no matter who was in it. Apparently Jim Crow still lives in South Carolina. I am disgusted and hope justice is done for this family.

  5. The writer of this article (and most other articles on this story) try to frame the suspects out as being definitely innocent. But if you actually watch the video you’ll hear the cop say that he feels what is probably a crack rock hidden near the suspect’s butt. That isn’t enough to make an arrest, so they are let go….. and the liberals across the internet cry bloody murder and turn this into a race issue.

  6. The writer of this article (and most other articles on this story) try to frame the suspects out as being definitely innocent. But if you actually watch the video you’ll hear the cop say that he feels what is probably a crack rock hidden near the suspect’s butt. That isn’t enough to make an arrest, so they are let go….. and the liberals across the internet cry bloody murder and turn this into a race issue.

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