When that came up with nothing they appeared in front of a judge claiming drug baggies were sticking out of my ass, then I was imprisoned, printed, and loaded up in a prisoner van and dragged to several hospitals while they tried to convince doctors to X-ray or invasively search me.
It sounds so insane, and gross, people usually don't believe it.
I was sent the medical bills when finished. The search is the beginning, after comes years of being chased by debt collectors.
This is one of those things you should talk to a lawyer about, and possibly, if you want to and your lawyer approves, the media.
Being invasively searched for drugs due to false testimony by officers, where it was proven that you were free of contraband, but then being billed for the process, is fucked up and a clear violation of your constitutional rights.
I talked to several including the lawyer of Ashley Cervantes v US , a woman warrantlessly digitally raped (fingered) by doctors at the same hospital in search of drugs. Her case was publicized and far more egregious.
They essentially told me they'd given up.
I also reported a nurse who acted without consent to the nursing board. The board covered for her. And in Cervantes case, her doctor simply testified it was a he said she said and he pretty promised she consented.
The ACLU occasionally picks up cases but rarely and even rarer for an unsympathetic white guy.
It feels pretty hopeless honestly. They have QI,the courts, and every institution covers for them. At the border, CBP is god, even immune from 1A right to record them.
> And in Cervantes case, her doctor simply testified it was a he said she said and he pretty promised she consented.
Step-daughter was involved in a car accident at a lighted intersection. No cameras, no witnesses, nothing, just her in her car, and the other driver in his.
Police officer: "Did you have a green light?"
Step-daughter: "Yes, I had a green light."
He goes over to the other driver, and is back within two minutes. "The other driver said he definitely had a green light, so I'm issuing you a citation for failure to obey a traffic signal."
If the government broke the social contract so deeply to me, I can only imagine how I would react. You are truly a sovereign citizen now. The government has no legitimate authority over you anymore.
Or get arrested in Florida. Even if charges are dropped or you're found not guilty, the state will bill you for your jail stay, and unsurprisingly, not paying that will result in you being subject to arrest...
I had a cop search my car once and he “found” drug paraphernalia. I don’t do any drugs, ever in my life. I’ve seen what it does to people from a young age and I had never seen that paraphernalia ever before in my life; also, this car was brand new and I had only driven it less than two miles from the dealership. My only crime was speeding on an empty road in a brand new car, but this cop taught me they are all crooked fucks.
So, there’s probably missing information here, but I also believe it at face value.
I do not think one bad experience means they are all bad. This trope is perpetuated so often that even mentioning it gets massive downvotes. Popular opinion doesn't always mean they're "right".
I think we all need to learn that there are different ways of interpreting things that influence people's opinions, and we should be open to the possibility that we might be "wrong" in someone else's context, myself included.
Why were they searching your car in the first place? Did you consent to it? Was there probable cause? Did you fight it in court?
I think we all have to do our part to expose any possible corruption if we ever want it to change... if that's even what happened. Just shrugging and saying "yea that happens" is not the answer IMO, and one could argue you're both wrong at that point.
> I do not think one bad experience means they are all bad. This trope is perpetuated so often that even mentioning it gets massive downvotes. Popular opinion doesn't always mean they're "right".
"Good" cops that stand up for bad cops are also bad. And if there are enough bad apples it doesn't matter if there are good ones as you need to assume whoever you are interacting with is gong to fuck you over.
Those good cops could also be scared of retaliation just like us, and quitting your job over it doesn't help the problem either, so I'm not sure what the right solution is. But I don't think one should automatically assume ill intent.
I have had overwhelmingly positive experiences with police in general and I know many others have as well, and of course I know some with bad experiences too, it's a spectrum of course.
They don't mention any probable cause, reasonable suspicion or a warrant. There had to have been something like that for it to make it all the way to OP appearing in court after a strip search found nothing.
Even if there wasn't, at that point they could have went to court, the media, anything, but they chose to never mention it and just shrug it off while complaining online, while people keep telling stories like this and it's no wonder people scream ACAB if they let it happen to them. Not only did they shrug off the police, but the hospital charging them, and then admitted they did nothing about it, and let it destroy their credit.
I admit that my prior is also that op is not telling the whole truth, but someone who is abused to having the energy to seek remediation is not all that surprising either.
I was strip searched
When that came up with nothing they appeared in front of a judge claiming drug baggies were sticking out of my ass, then I was imprisoned, printed, and loaded up in a prisoner van and dragged to several hospitals while they tried to convince doctors to X-ray or invasively search me.
It sounds so insane, and gross, people usually don't believe it.
I was sent the medical bills when finished. The search is the beginning, after comes years of being chased by debt collectors.