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1
jesus christ this is horrifying. I am not going to watch the video and it is appalling that those are in the public record. jesus fucking christ on a stick.
2
I haven't watched the videos. But I would like to think that if I were a victim of this kind of assault, I would want it out there. I would hope that I would be able to look past my own personal embarrassment to make sure everyone in the world knew what the assholes did to me, in the hopes it would make some kind of change.
3
Agreed, Paul. And @2, that's your call. But so far as I can tell, no one asked these women for their permission before putting videos of this up. So your personal opinion is not relevant to this.
4
In related news, Texas law still regards some acts against women to be sexual assault.
5
@4: That was my take-away as well.
6
Many people are more moved by something they see than something they read about. Seeing it makes it real in a way text often cannot.

That being said, it should be up to the victims whether things like are released.
7
Rape, plain and simple. But Texas has no respect for women.
8
What the fuck is it with Texas? This is one of those days I wish we'd never annexed the place.
9
The women were on the side of the road and these searches are routine in Texas. Huge priority to stop that immediately, but faux Seattle controversy is important too.
10
Paul, remember that time you reported the name of the Reddit-discovered Boston Marathon Bombing suspect, the poor innocent hounded by the internet? Then you posted a non-apology saying it was your duty to "report the news, and the guy's name was news?"

Now you're taking the high road and not posting these videos, because it's the right thing to do. And I agree with that.

BUT, I don't think it's cool that you are acting like that's always been your policy. You still have it in you to hound folks, and I'm sure you will again.

11
@#9
These searches are a violation of policy in Texas. The fact that two occurred on tape suggests they may be, as you claim, "routine in Texas" - but that fact, appalling as it is in its own right, would also mean that violating their own policies is routine in Texas.
12
@9: That those types of searches are routine should be something we see as unsetting, not something we settle for.
13
@9 WTF are you talking about? Faux conspiracy? Like standing by the side of the road is probable cause for a cooch search? Or is it more important to show how un-PC you are by making fun of people who actually give a shit about this?
14
The officers in question will each receive two weeks paid vacation and a verbal warning.
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@13 Probably one of these special snowflakes that thinks that unless you dedicate your life to a cause you are just a slacktivist with nothing to offer.
16
Like I need yet another reason not to live in Texas.
17
I'm waiting for someone to say the women, 'Were asking for it' because of the way they dressed.
18
While generally I consider it fair game to publicly shame and humiliate any asshole who throws their cigarette butt wherever the fuck they so please*, this is not what I have in mind. Even my nasty dictatorial fictional, self meting out punishment with impunity, wouldn't go anywhere near this far. (The stocks, maybe.)

*Isn't it enough that you've already fouled the air in the immediate area with carcinogens? You have to compound it with littering?
19
@3 - yes, be upset about this.

but that is a public record of an event in public. you don't need the permission. it is your "personal opinion" that that the women should have to give permission.

so by your own logic, you are not relevant here.

love,
logic
20
I lived in NM for a decade and my favorite NM joke is:

Why is New Mexico so windy?
Because Arizona blows and Texas SUCKS!

...signed "Sad for Texans"
21
I don't understand how anyone could make a case that the police are in the right, here.


There were a few posts on the Dominic-threatened-by-cops threads which held an eloquent defense of such procedures. I will only paraphrase here, but I think the gist of it is that it is important for a strong society to have strong, powerful men who impose their will upon the weak. The weak are women, children, and those men who act weak. These men are known as "fags", "pussies," "libtards," and "intellectuals." The procedure of pulling women over and digitally raping them by the side of the road is a valued display to our enemies outside, the commie-terrorist-immigrants, and to the traitors within (see 'weak men', above), that America is a *strong* country, filled w/ *strong* men, and that our penises are large & virile.
22
You're not going to post a video, but you post a link to the video?
23
If this were done to me, I would want it broadcast on every channel to make sure the perps didn't wiggle their way out of it. Testimony is one thing but a video of the crime being committed by the perp against the victim is hard to argue against.
24
@23: word.
25
Would Texas please just secede and get it over with. I'm embarrassed that it is still a part of the United States.
26
Dear @8 When the time comes that your feces don't stink we'll talk. Until then talk to the finger. Seattle and Washington state have their own problems and while Texas isn't close to perfect, it's a damn sight better than you know about.
27
Dear @26 well you sure told us. Way to cite examples, very convincing.
28
It'll be interesting to see if the cops get charged with anything.

Of course they're just following in the footsteps of the Texas legislature, mandating sexual assault via involuntary probes of women seeking abortions.
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@28 According to the article, the female cop was fired and charged with sexual assault. Hope they can make it stick, AND that the judge is willing to drop the hammer.
30
@26 - Have you smelled venomlash's feces? Like goddamn roses.

And, just to be clear, is "talk to the finger" supposed to be a threat to violate our various personal orifices for minor offenses? For the last time, Texas, no means no. (God, how I wish that could be the last time people needed to be reminded of that.)
31
Texas must be so proud.
32
@26: Okay okay, you got me fair and square. Not ALL of Texas is so thoroughly awful.
We'd like to keep Austin if that's all right with you guys.
33
Imagine an America without the south, an America where we DIDN'T fight the civil war. Where the industrial, urban north isn't subsidizing the agrarian, rural south.
34
@33: if we hadn't fought that war, we'd have fought 3 or 4 other ones with them by now.
35
@9 Thanks for interjecting your irrelevant comment to let us know you dislike Seattle. I guess you missed the part where they didn't change gloves between body cavity searches. How about during a routine traffic stop, you get your asshole fingered by a cop who uses the same exact glove s/he just used to finger some other guy's asshole, and then come tell us about how faux we are because we happen to live in Seattle while also thinking that kind of shit is vile and abusive.

36
I'm I the only one that can't get rid of his erection no matter how many times I slam the toilet seat down on it?
37
Texas is not The South. Yes, it is in the southern United States, but it is a place entirely unto itself.

The South (states) may be ignorant, obnoxious, Bible-thumping assholes, but they are weak sisters compared to Texas. In Texas, they add a dangerous swagger and arrogance that must be experienced to be believed.

However, in light of this story and too, too many others, I wouldn't recommend visiting there.
38
@29 "the female cop was fired and charged with sexual assault"

In both cases a radio call went out and a female officer arrived after the stop was initiated to perform the sexual assault.

While there needs to be consequences for the female officers, I believe it is actually worse all around if those female officers are scapegoated; the policies and procedures need examination and more women in the ranks and management would probably help too.
39
@23,

I agree with you. Perhaps if there had been video of Zimmerman hunting down Trayvon, the trial would have had a different outcome. Now the police cannot claim that they didn't assault those two women in Texas since there is a video.

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