In October of 2012, Timothy Young was pulled over for failing to
use his turn signal in Lordsburg, New Mexico. When Hidalgo County
deputies saw that Young’s companion had an open container, they
asked to search the truck. Young consented. The search dragged on for more than two hours. Deputies
eventually called in a K9 unit and claimed that the dog, Leo,
alerted on the driver's seat. While deputies sought a warrant for a
more extensive search, deputy Patrick Green continued to
interrogate Young, at one point asking him, “Do you have it up your
ass?” After the deputies obtained a search warrant, they handcuffed
Young and drove him an hour away to the Gila Regional Medical
Center in Silver City, New Mexico. Young was x-rayed and digitally
probed without his consent. No contraband was found. A few weeks
later, the hospital sent Young a bill for services rendered. Young sued all parties involved. So far he has received a
judgment of $925,000 from Hidalgo County...Reason
Here's the video. Warning, some rough language. See what the War On Drugs has brought us: Failure to use a turn signal leads to a strip search, an hours drive to a hospital, x-rays and anal finger exam.
http://youtu.be/mPEXYkffgpw
Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
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For that kind of settlement I think I'll go to Lordsburg and run a red light. They did that to me during my enlistment physical and I got a whole let less money.
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