Land of the Free: Police Arrest Man without Any Probable Cause, Give Him Knock Out Drugs, Insert Camera into His Rectum, Force Him to Vomit, Take His Blood, X-Ray Him; No Illegal Drugs Found
May 16th, 2008The U.S. is starting to make Darkness at Noon look like a walk in the park.
Via: Times Union:
Two years ago, Tunde Clement stepped off a bus at the city’s main terminal downtown.
Clement, a black man, was carrying a backpack and coming from New York City. That may have been enough to pique the interest of undercover sheriff’s investigators scanning the crowd with their eyes.
They cornered Clement and began peppering him with questions.
He was quickly handcuffed and falsely arrested. He was taken to a station to be strip-searched and then to a hospital, where doctors forcibly sedated him with a cocktail of powerful drugs, including one that clouded his memory of the incident.
A camera was inserted in his rectum, he was forced to vomit and his blood and urine were tested for drugs and alcohol. Scans of his digestive system were performed using X-ray machines, according to hospital records obtained by the Times Union.
The search, conducted without a search warrant, came up empty.
In all, Clement spent more than 10 hours in custody before being released with nothing more than an appearance ticket for resisting arrest — a charge that was later dismissed.
The following month, Clement received a $6,792 bill from Albany Med for the procedures. Hospital records indicate the final diagnosis as “hemorrhoids.”
Sounds like the movie “Brazil”, where prisoners are billed for their own torture, or their family are billed for it if they die while in custody. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088846/
After reading this week’s news, all I can think of is:
“I see trees of green
red roses too
I see em bloom
for me and for you
And I think to myself
what a wonderful world…
I hear babies cry
I watch them grow
They’ll learn much more
than I’ll never know
And I think to myself
what a wonderful world…”
NOT! But thanks for the work you do Kevin.
You ain’t seen nuthin’ yet! When the 300,000 or so US troops who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan eventually come home, many of them are going to get jobs as cops or private security. With the PTSD and lingering “shoot it if it moves” mentality, we are ALL going to have to be very careful about sudden moves, loud noises, or anything that might antagonize them. Welcome to the land of BushReich!
As depraved as this sounds, I applaud them doing these things. It will only hasten the time when revulsion disgust, and fury reach critical mass. I for one am longing for Armand Jean du Plessis de Richelieu, Cardinal-Duc de Richelieu.
It is over for them, can you feel it ? I can. That is why the desperation, soon the grab-it-all-now mentality shall be doomed.
cybele