A female state trooper from Texas has been suspended following allegations of an illegal and humiliating “roadside body cavity search” during a routine traffic stop.
According to KVUE news, two Irving women, Angel Dobbs, 38, and her niece, Ashley Dobbs, 24, were driving along Highway 161 on July 13, when they were pulled over by state troopers Kelley Helleson and David Farrell for allegedly throwing a cigarette butt out the window of their car.
In the dascham footage released by the women and their attorney this week, Helleson is seen prepping herself by wearing a latex glove and performing an extensive…cavity search on both females.
After the officer finished…her work, Angel Dobbs can be heard in the video saying:
"This has been an eye opening experience for me. Never have I been pulled over, never have I been searched like this. I mean, I was like totally violated over there a few minutes ago. I had a finger up my ass and a finger in my p***. This is so embarrassing to me."
State trooper Farrell called Helleson to perform the search because he said he smelled marijuana and believed that the two women were "acting weird". The search did not return anything and the women were simply handed over a warning for littering, according to the suit.
Speaking to KTVT-TV this week, Angel Dobbs said: "At this point, I’m in clear shock. I can’t even believe this is happening. Turns me around goes down into the front of my pants into my inner thigh and at which point she goes up with two fingers. I just look at her and say 'Oh my God, I’ve just been violated.' I was molested, I was violated. I was humiliated."
Her niece, Ashley Dobbs, added: "I didn't know what I could say or what I could do. I felt helpless."
This past Monday, the two women sued both Helleson and her fellow trooper Farrell, along with Steven McCraw, the director of the Department of Public Safety, in the federal U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas.
"This intrusive cavity search occurred on the side of a public freeway illuminated by lights from the police vehicle in full view of the passing public," reads an excerpt from the lawsuit that was posted by WFAA. "Moreover, this roadside body cavity search was done without her consent."
Besides the…director's cut, but only if you have a lot of free time, a few bags of popcorn and find police scenes interesting, you can also watch the unedited, 1-hour long version after the break.
18 Comments:
Doing a body cavity search on a road and not changing the glove for each woman. How did they think they wouldn't get in trouble for doing that?
That cop has probably been getting of for years doing that to women. My wife had a home land security person do the same to her at the salt lake city airport. Then she had her arrested when complainng. Atleast this citizen was able to have it on film.
Dirty Lying Pigs,need to be fired
I am under the impression that Police in the US have been given permission from somewhere to ramp up the brutality and humiliation, knowing they will be protected.
Most cops could have done is write a ticket to appear for Mary J since not a felony class offense. Why would they do a felony search? Shameless now we gotta guard our a-holes from police invasion from quote "routine stops"? no shame no respect for their own protocols and dept. policies just sticking fingers wherever for a hope to write a minor ticket ridiculious.. I'm sticking a pensil sharperner in mine there you go cop finger take that
Oh this was not in Russia which is odd.
My God, this is embarrassing to even watch. I am not one to come down on police officers without a damn good reason, as a matter of fact I was a Sheriff's deputy for a few years. This search was absolutely way out of line, and I hope these two women sue both officers till they bleed.
No excuse and no justification - that was harassment plain and simple.
This is total bull-shit, UNBELIEVABLE! Nowhere in any US jurisdiction, do the police have the right to body cavity search you by the side of the road, not for any reason.
These women have an excellent case for a major league lawsuit against, the department, the county and the state.
Makes me wonder if the dikes that Texas is hiring are doing this to people on a regular basis. In that case it would be considered a sexual assault, just as if a man did it.
Never submit to this, the police don't have the right to do this in America under any circumstances. If they attempt to do this without your consent, tell em you got a bomb up your coochie, that will detonate upon penetration. Far better to get arrested for refusing, you will still have plenty of grounds for a lawsuit, because NOTHING justifies roadside body cavity searches.
Would like to smell those gloves!
I was a cop, and this FILTHY F*CKING BITCH should go to PRISON and she should be anally and vaginally violated everyday she's there. I am so mad. And had one of these women refused, they would have beat her ass, and hauled her to jail and swore it was her fault. Anyone need any more evidence that weed should be decriminalized?
maybe she is a gynecologist with two jobs.
and those ladies missed their appointment during daytime.
you are so prejudiced
FUCK THE POLICE!
I agree. The entire act is unforgivable but to use the same glove on both women is just unsanitary and dangerous. What planet is this officer from where this is acceptable behavior? She should be locked up for sexual assault. If you have a wife, sister, daughter or mother then this criminal act should be appalling and not something to joke about.
Eww butt finger everywhere, didn't even change gloves.
The officer never even changed her gloves for the second girl. I'm telling you, police are really thinking they are above the damn law. Cop try this crap with me and my foot would be in his nut bag. Sure I would get a baton, but I also would get satisfaction for the moment. scum bag search.
didn't they teach the girls as kids: first the front then the back? otherwise that can lead to a bladder infection... espacially when the 'cop' uses the same gloves for different private parts...
and i agree, this is plain humiliation - they are allowed to do that in germany as well and you don't stand a chance sueing them. police has way to many rights when it comes to suspicions...
Almost all traffic stops that escalate into vehicle and body searches are a violation of American's constitutional rights. How can we justify training and paying public servants to circumvent American citizen's constitutional rights? The Drug War is a failure and swiftly coming to an end. I anticipate the number of mall cops in America will rise as police forces all around the USA cut their numbers. The funny thing is that many will end up working security at the thousands of fine medical marijuana dispensaries that are currently serving law abiding citizens their medicine.
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