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South Carolina Police Conduct Roadside Cavity Search

Police officers in the South Carolina city of Aiken recorded themselves as they exposed an African-American driver’s breasts and searched  her partner’s rectum. The disturbing dashcam video from 2014 shows at least one member of the police Department search inside the man’s rectum for the ‘crime’ of being a passenger in a car with a temporary paper license plate, which is not illegal in South Carolina. According to the Washington Post, the car belonged to a woman named Lakeya Hicks, who had the paper tags because she had recently purchased the vehicle. The tags had not expired, and a check on her license came up clean. RT reports: Instead, the federal lawsuit filed last year, and revealed this week as part of the Post’s investigation, says there were a number of procedural and constitutional failures, saying, “We refuse to create the suspect presumption in this state that every motorist traveling the highways with a temporary tag is guilty of driving an unregistered or uninsured car and is subject to detention until he or she can prove otherwise.” A horrifying new dashcam video shows at least one white member of the Aiken, S.C. Police Department search inside… https://t.co/B0POq9W9fz — Aaron San Diego [...]