Outcry over Sheriff's Department search methods

[Bob Hubbard]

Outcry over Sheriff's Department search methods
By BRENDAN J. LYONS, Senior writer
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First published: Sunday, March 2, 2008 ALBANY -- 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.

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[tellner]

9-11! 9-11! Support the troops! Why do you hate America? The Constitution isn't a suicide pact! You're with us or you're with the terrorists! The innocent have nothing to fear! It isn't torture if it isn't as painful as death or the destruction of a major organ! If there's even a 1% chance we have to act like it's certain!

Yeah. I sure feel safer now.

 

[arnisador]

I can't get the article to come up...

 

[OnlyAnEgg]

Wtf?

 

[Bob Hubbard]

site looks to be down at the moment.

Try these mirrors
http://www.redorbit.com/news/health...ent_search_methods/index.html?source=r_health
http://informationliberation.com/?id=25252&comments=0

 

[shesulsa]

What do people do about this kind of thing? Anyone? Anyone?

 

[mrhnau]

9-11! 9-11! Support the troops! Why do you hate America? The Constitution isn't a suicide pact! You're with us or you're with the terrorists! The innocent have nothing to fear! It isn't torture if it isn't as painful as death or the destruction of a major organ! If there's even a 1% chance we have to act like it's certain!

Yeah. I sure feel safer now.

There are discrete wackos everywhere that will abuse their authority and position. Finding and posting discrete stories of these wackos often serves to excite the crowd anxious for anything to criticize.

Bottom line. Discipline those that did wrong. Any sane person can agree that being too zealous at the wrong time can be wrong. One needs wisdom. Don't go bananas, march on DC and demand reform, unless this is happening all over, instead of a few power hungry, overzealous individuals. Don't legislate by exception. Deal with the incident at hand, then move along. Remove those responsible, make clear this is unacceptable, and move along. I guess thats too simple and practical for the "I want something to protest about" crowds though... More eager to create and inspire angst than to actually get something done.

 

[Empty Hands]

Discipline those that did wrong. Any sane person can agree that being too zealous at the wrong time can be wrong. One needs wisdom. Don't go bananas, march on DC and demand reform, unless this is happening all over, instead of a few power hungry, overzealous individuals.

There's a pretty decent chance that the officers involved won't be disciplined, unless the media outcry gets huge. Even if they are though, that will not address or change the cultural and institutional problems that make these incidents possible and even likely. That's where marching on DC comes into play, for whatever good it will do you.

This sort of thing is also more common than you realize, although not normally so...invasive...as in this case.

 

[arnisador]

Well, I hope he wins a very large lawsuit.

 

[Andy Moynihan]

May the Fates take those apologies for cops and reward them just exactly as they deserve.

 

[zDom]

Resisting arrest is the best they could come up with?

Idiots. They should have charged him with Thoughtcrime of Facecrime.


WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

"The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power.

What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from all the oligarchies of the past, in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just round the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal.

We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power."

 

[Archangel M]

Call the ACLU and sue.

 

[Cryozombie]

These Lyrics come to mind.

Listen to the victim, abused by the system
The basis is racist, you know that we must face this
"It can't happen here". Oh yeah?
"Take a look around at the cities and the towns."

See them hunting, creeping, sneaking
Breeding fear and loathing with the lies they're speaking
The knife, the gun, broken bottle, petrol bomb
There is no future when the past soon come

And when they come to ethnically cleanse me
Will you speak out? Will you defend me?
Or laugh through a glass eye as they rape our lives
Trampled underfoot by the rights on the rise

Welcome to a state where the politics of hate
Shout loud in the crowd "Watch them beat us all down."
There's a rising tide on the rivers of blood
But if the answer isn't violence, neither is your silence

If they come to ethnically cleanse me
Will you speak out? Will you defend me?
Freedom of expression doesn't make it alright
Trampled underfoot by the rise of the right. - Pop Will Eat Itself, Ich Bien Ein Auslander