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This 4 On Your Side investigation looks into the actions of police officers and doctors in Southern New Mexico.

A review of medical records, police reports and a federal lawsuit show deputies with the Hidalgo County Sheriff's Office, police officers with the City of Deming and medical professionals at the Gila Regional Medical Center made some questionable decisions.

The incident began January 2, 2013 after David Eckert finished shopping at the Wal-Mart in Deming. According to a federal lawsuit, Eckert didn't make a complete stop at a stop sign coming out of the parking lot and was immediately stopped by law enforcement.

Eckert's attorney, Shannon Kennedy, said in an interview with KOB that after law enforcement asked him to step out of the vehicle, he appeared to be clenching his buttocks. Law enforcement thought that was probable cause to suspect that Eckert was hiding narcotics in his anal cavity. While officers detained Eckert, they secured a search warrant from a judge that allowed for an anal cavity search.

The lawsuit claims that Deming Police tried taking Eckert to an emergency room in Deming, but a doctor there refused to perform the anal cavity search citing it was "unethical."

But physicians at the Gila Regional Medical Center in Silver City agreed to perform the procedure and a few hours later, Eckert was admitted.

What Happened

While there, Eckert was subjected to repeated and humiliating forced medical procedures. A review of Eckert's medical records, which he released to KOB, and details in the lawsuit show the following happened:

1. Eckert's abdominal area was x-rayed; no narcotics were found.

2. Doctors then performed an exam of Eckert's anus with their fingers; no narcotics were found.

3. Doctors performed a second exam of Eckert's anus with their fingers; no narcotics were found.

4. Doctors penetrated Eckert's anus to insert an enema. Eckert was forced to defecate in front of doctors and police officers. Eckert watched as doctors searched his stool. No narcotics were found.

5. Doctors penetrated Eckert's anus to insert an enema a second time. Eckert was forced to defecate in front of doctors and police officers. Eckert watched as doctors searched his stool. No narcotics were found.

6. Doctors penetrated Eckert's anus to insert an enema a third time. Eckert was forced to defecate in front of doctors and police officers. Eckert watched as doctors searched his stool. No narcotics were found.

7. Doctors then x-rayed Eckert again; no narcotics were found.

8. Doctors prepared Eckert for surgery, sedated him, and then performed a colonoscopy where a scope with a camera was inserted into Eckert's anus, rectum, colon, and large intestines. No narcotics were found.

Throughout this ordeal, Eckert protested and never gave doctors at the Gila Regional Medical Center consent to perform any of these medical procedures.

"If the officers in Hidalgo County and the City of Deming are seeking warrants for anal cavity searches based on how they're standing and the warrant allows doctors at the Gila Hospital of Horrors to go in and do enemas and colonoscopies without consent, then anyone can be seized and that's why the public needs to know about this," Kennedy said.

Search Warrant Concerns

There are major concerns about the way the search warrant was carried out. Kennedy argues that the search warrant was overly broad and lacked probable cause. But beyond that, the warrant was only valid in Luna County, where Deming is located. The Gila Regional Medical Center is in Grant County. That means all of the medical procedures were performed illegally and the doctors who performed the procedures did so with no legal basis and no consent from the patient.

In addition, even if the search warrant was executed in the correct New Mexico county, the warrant expired at 10 p.m. Medical records show the prepping for the colonoscopy started at 1 a.m. the following day, three hours after the warrant expired.

"This is like something out of a science fiction film, anal probing by government officials and public employees," Kennedy said.

No Comment

KOB reached out to the attorneys representing the defendants in the lawsuit and all declined to comment on the situation. The attorneys said it's their personal policy not comment on pending litigation.

4 On Your Side Investigative Reporter Chris Ramirez cornered Deming Police Chief Brandon Gigante.

"As the police chief what reassurances could you give people when they come through your town that they won't be violated or abused by your police officers?" Ramirez asked Chief Gigante.

"We follow the law in every aspect and we follow policies and protocols that we have in place," Chief Gigante replied.

"Do you think those officers in this particular case did that?" Ramirez asked.

Gigante didn't answer, instead he referred Ramirez to his attorney.

The Lawsuit

David Eckert is suing The City of Deming and Deming Police Officers Bobby Orosco, Robert Chavez and Officer Hernandez.

Eckert is also suing Hidalgo County Hidalgo County Deputies David Arredondo, Robert Rodriguez and Patrick Green.

Eckert is also suing Deputy District Attorney Daniel Dougherty and the Gila Regional Medical Center including Robert Wilcox, M.D and Okay Odocha, M.D.

Bonus points: He's being billed for it!

So, at the risk of TMI, I had an enema once for severe constipation. There's no way anything in your butt is going to "hide out" past the first two!

Even when you're in desperate pain and fully consenting an enema is not an experience you want to repeat. This guy is going to have some PTSD or something :sad:
 
Iam blaming OBAMA ! :mad:

EDIT: It was kinda funny at the first xray, but that was just really really a lot of unnecessary anal cavity searching.
 
His attorney:

Maybe the officers who did this don't like him living in their community," said Kennedy. "He's a white boy, a scraggly white boy, and all these officers are Hispanic. It's a New Mexico thing."

Kennedy said her client, 63-years-old when he was detained, looks somewhat like rocker Tom Petty and says he denies standing with his buttocks clenched.

In the search warrant affidavit that sought permission for an anal cavity probe, one police officer said he asked Eckert for permission to physically search him after the minor traffic stop. When Eckert refused, the document says, a police K-9 dog alerted them to the side of his car. Kennedy alleges the dog is not certified to search for drugs and may actually be a pet.
 
Seems awfully unnecessary. I don't think Eckert is going to lose this one
 
All I know is that I'd be pretty butthurt over this.

Okay, that was bad.
 
Well as long you aren't butt clenching you should be fine
 
Cruel story, bro

:(

"Hidalgo county"? Hidalgo is the spanish term for a form of nobility (iirc Don Quixote was called that).
I hope these incidents stop, cause the man this article is about seems highly likely to have been the victim of quite disgusting police and medical brutality. That doctors just accepted to force such procedures on him without consent should immediately mean they are fired and not allowed to work again. (But i suppose such unethical people will find some other job).
 
I guess I've always known that cops were a mixed bag, but I'm still reeling from the fact that American DOCTORS would act this way.

I mean, mass shooters and stuff are nuts. You expect nuts to do nutty stuff, you know what I mean? But you don't think that a medical doctor would basically buttrape someone at the behest of a random cop.
 
Comparatively harmless.
If they are suspicious regarding the other end of your body PTSD may very well be the least of your problems...
 
Wow, 12 hours of anal rape and then they billed him $6000 for it. :eek::eek::eek:
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles...er-nm-police-force-colonoscopy-in-drug-search

Why keep going deeper after the 3rd enima?
Here is the full complaint.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/181730326/Traffic-Complaint-pdf



I haven't seen cops this eager for cavity searches since Robert Stack in Beavis and Butthead Do America ordered them for every single suspect.
Agent hurly, I want you to give this scumbag a cavity search. I'm talking roto-rooter. Don't stop till you reach the back of his teeth.


Link to video.


The moral of the story is don't clench your butt around cops.
Police states have rules.
 
^That movie had far less funny moments than expected... Some were great though, such as Beavis and Butthead talking to pretty much their future-selves:

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:rotfl:
 
Uh, those weren't so much their "future selves" man. I think you might have missed what was being implied.
 
^I saw that segment when the film came out, in the late 90s. So yeah, i don't recall the context, other than the older-Butthead talking to the older-Beavis in the same way the younger versions did :)
 
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