WASHINGTON — The cell phone video shows a ‘Stop and Frisk’ encounter last September between an MPD officer and M.B. Cottingham, a D.C. resident. “Come on man! Stop fingering me, bruh!” the 39-year-old cries out. “Stop moving,” replies Officer Sean Lojacono. Now, 10 months after that pat-down, the ACLU of DC has filed a federal … Read more
A federal judge has denied requests from two St. Louis police officers to dismiss the lawsuit brought by a woman who was strip-searched during a traffic stop in 2012. That woman, Kayla Robinson, alleges that detective Angela Hawkins dragged her behind a trailer, shoved her hard enough to injure her shoulder and then, during the … Read more
A man pulled over for trailing a vehicle too closely in March 2017 is attempting to sue the New Jersey State Police and three troopers after he says he was “violated so many times” during a search of his genital area along the side of the road. The up-close-and-personal body search came as two troopers … Read more
Oklahoma City has paid $18,000 to settle a federal lawsuit against a police sergeant over an illegal search. The city council agreed in January to pay the settlement for Sgt. Keith Medley because he “was acting within the scope of his employment at all times relevant to this action.” Suing was Victor Dewayne Gaines, 31, … Read more
A Tennessee woman claims a Highway Patrol trooper groped her during a traffic stop, then lay in wait near her home and pulled her over a second time just hours later, according to reports. Patricia Aileen Wilson was driving down Interstate 75 in Campbell County with her mother last August when Trooper Isaiah Lloyd pulled … Read more
SAN ANTONIO – A lawsuit filed in federal court Friday claims a San Antonio Police officer pulled a woman’s tampon out and searched her vaginal cavity along the shoulder of a public street in 2016. Natalie D. Simms’ attorney filed the lawsuit against the City of San Antonio and a female officer, identified as Mara … Read more
3 July 2013 Disturbing video shows two women in bikinis being subjected to body cavity searches on the side of a Texas highway after they were stopped returning from a weekend at the beach. Brandy Hamilton, 26, and Alexandria Randle, 24, are suing the Texas Department of Public Safety and the sheriff of Brazoria County, … Read more
HOUSTON – The dashboard camera images horrified people in the Houston area and throughout the world. College student Charneisha Corley, handcuffed after a north side traffic stop in a Texaco parking lot, stripped naked, pushed to her knees, head jammed beneath her car, legs forcibly pried apart as female Harris County Sheriff’s Office deputies searched … Read more
04.04.2016 Two South Carolina residents have filed a federal lawsuit against the City of Aiken, South Carolina, which claims that police officers performed an illegal cavity search during a traffic stop. Video of the October 2014 incident surfaced this week and was first reported by Radley Balko in the Washington Post. The encounter began when … Read more
Do you know what your rights are when a police officer asks to search you? If you’re like most people I’ve met in my eight years working to educate the public on this topic, then you probably don’t. It’s a subject that a lot of people think they understand, but too often our perception of … Read more
Hackensack, New Jersey – The city has fired five police officers involved in the 2016 warrantless search of a Prospect Avenue apartment, according to a Friday statement from Ted Ehrenburg, the city manager. The decision comes a little more than a week after Dennis Driscoll, the hearing officer who led an inquiry into the illegal … Read more
02/08/2018 California – A video circulating online of an Elk Grove police officer searching the purse of a woman who was in a car that was pulled over for expired registration is raising eyebrows by some in the community. Keri Williams, an 18-year-old from South Sacramento, posted the video of her encounter with the officer … Read more