This unlawful act should not happen to any women in a public place...Shame
on these Texan police officers.

Niamorkono..

14/08/2013 / UNITED STATES
Videos show Texan police searching women's genitals for drugs
Screenshot of police dashboard video showing Angel Dobbs undergoing a
cavity search in May 2012

Two separate videos filmed on police dashboard cameras appear to show Texan
police officers performing intimate roadside body searches on women accused
of minor offences. Our Observers, who were themselves subjected to a
so-called "cavity search", say they felt violated and disgusted.
 A trip to the beach in Brazoria County in May last year took a nasty turn
for two young Texan women when police pulled over their car, accused the
driver of speeding and carrying marijuana, and then subjected them both to
on-the-spot intimate cavity searches. A female police officer penetrated
Brandy Hamilton and Alexandria Randle’s vaginas and rectums. She found
nothing, Hamilton denies speeding, and the women claim the officer used the
same gloves.
 Hamilton and Randles are suing the officers involved, Brazoria County
Sheriff and the state Director of Public Safety. As the case unfolds, a
video shot during the incident by a police dashboard camera has recently
emerged. It shows a senior officer telling Brandy Hamilton “I ain’t getting
up close and personal with your womanly parts”. He calls over his junior
female colleague, while Hamilton looks shocked and asks: “you’re really
going up my private parts?” Hamilton is clearly in pain while the female
officer performs the cavity search. Hamilton’s passenger, Alexandria
Randles, is not visible in the video posted online. Her lawyers claim the
full-version of the video shows her being subjected to a cavity search
after Hamilton.
 Video, filmed by police dashboard camera, showing Brandy Hamilton and
Alexandria Randles' ordeal on May 28th, 2012.
 Just a few days earlier in Dallas, driver Ashley Dobbs and her niece were
stopped for allegedly throwing cigarettes out of their car window, a claim
which they deny. A video <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ob7BDGx3Zo>captured
on police dashboard camera shows how officers deemed it necessary to carry
out cavity searches on both women. The women sued, the female police
officers have been fired and the case is settled.
 The fact that two similar searches were captured on police dashboard
cameras hundreds of miles apart in the same state has prompted human rights
lawyers and activists
<http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/05/lawyers-illegal-body-cavity-searches-of-women-standard-policy-at-texas-traffic-stops/>to
claim they were not random, isolated incidents, but an all too common
police practice. Furthermore, the women who were asked by their male
colleagues to perform the searches appeared to object in the videos. Both
women have since claimed they were simply following orders.
 Allie R. Booker <http://www.bookerlawfirm.com/>, Hamilton and Randle’s
lawyer, calls the incident in Brazoria County a “roadside sexual assault”,
telling FRANCE 24 “you can’t justify that happening, right there on the
side of the road. They would’ve been justified in doing a pat-down, where
they could have patted the women’s vagina, breasts and behind, but
penetrating them is against the law. We can’t do that here in the United
States”.
 Booker also told FRANCE 24 that while the senior male officer has lost his
job, the female officer, who was initially sacked too, has been
reinstated<http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Trooper-Who-Conducted-Cavity-Search-Reinstated-219055671.html>on
the grounds she was following orders from a senior. Her legal team
wants
a third officer, Aaron Kindred, who was present but not involved in the
search to "stand up in court and take responsibility, because he's guilty
of letting a crime happen and not protecting the victims". Aaron Kindred
happens to be Brazoria County Deputy Sheriff and according to Booker,
"Brazoria are doing nothing, they're saying he hasn't done anything wrong.
They're a remote, proud county that think they can get away with anything".
 Screenshot of video showing Trooper Nathaniel Turner walking towards
Brandy Hamilton's car, shortly after flagging it down.
 Contributors

Brandy Hamilton <http://observers.france24.com/profile/260064>

Alexandria Randles <http://observers.france24.com/profile/260065>
 “I felt violated, and I can no longer trust the police"
Brandy Hamilton, 27, was driving the car. She subjected to a cavity search
by a female police officer.
 The senior police officer, that’s Nathaniel Turner, was the one who
stopped me. He said I was speeding, that I was going over 60 miles an hour,
but I wasn’t. Then he said he could smell marijuana in my car. I said I
didn’t have any, he searched the car but found nothing. That’s when he said
he needed to search my private parts. He called the lady over, Jennie Bui,
she penetrated my vagina and my behind.
 I felt violated, and I can no longer trust the police now. I thought they
were the people I could talk to if I had a problem: I thought they were
there to protect me. I don’t know who I can turn to now if ever I’m in
trouble.

Brandy Hamilton <http://observers.france24.com/profile/260064>
 “I want an apology”
Alexandria Randles, 26, was Brandy Hamilton’s passenger. You can't see her
in the video, but you can hear her. She was subjected to a cavity search by
a female police officer.
 I feel violated, ashamed, raped. It was a horrific, traumatising situation
to be in. What happened was disgusting, and it just happened there on the
side of the road.
There’s been so much exposure on the internet and in the media, it’s been
everywhere and everyone knows. I’m honestly so embarrassed about what
happened, it’s so humiliating.
 I have no words for the people that did it, I have nothing I can say to
them. I want an apology, that’s all I want. I want them to say sorry for
what they did and take responsibility.

Alexandria Randles <http://observers.france24.com/profile/260065>
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