Cops force colonoscopy.

• Author: Doherty, Brian
• Position: Rearview search - Brief article

In January 2013, police in Deming, New Mexico, pulled over David Eckert for allegedly running a stop sign. They then took him to the Gila Regional Medical Center, where he was subjected to an abdominal X-ray that showed no drugs; a manual search of the inside of his anus that found no drugs; a forced enema and defecation in front of officers, which found no drugs; two more rounds of forced enemas that found no drugs; more X-rays that found no drugs; and finally a forced colonoscopy under sedation in which a camera was rammed through to his colon and large intestine. The camera found no drugs.

Why the torture? A drug dog allegedly "alerted" to Eckert's car seat, and the cops found it suspicious that the driver didn't meet their eyes and...