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A New Mexico woman claims she suffered for weeks after a Bernalillo County corrections officer strip-searched her and sprayed mace in her vagina.
Its tantamount to torture, Peter Simonson, the Executive Director of ACLU of New Mexico said in an interview with 4 On Your Side.
The ACLU, on behalf of Marlene Tapia, filed a federal lawsuit this week two years after the alleged ordeal occurred -- two years after Tapia first contacted the organization.
Simonson said civil rights cases are complicated to build, but that his staff filed the case within the two-year statute of limitations.
According to court records, police arrested Tapia for a probation violation tied to a previous drug case. While at the Metropolitan Detention Center, Tapia said two officers strip searched her and asked her to bend over at the waist. Thats when they noticed a plastic baggie protruding from Tapias vagina.
Instead of taking Tapia to a doctor to have the baggie removed, she said one of the officers Blanca Zapater sprayed a chemical agent directly on her genitals twice.
Simonson said the chemical agent was mace.
First Anal Probes, Now This. The Drug War Takes Another Horrifying, NSFW Turn In New Mexico.
From the state that gave us stories of forced anal probes, enemas, and colonoscopies a few weeks ago, we now get this:
A New Mexico woman claims she suffered for weeks after a Bernalillo County corrections officer strip-searched her and sprayed mace in her vagina.
Its tantamount to torture, Peter Simonson, the Executive Director of ACLU of New Mexico said in an interview with 4 On Your Side.
The ACLU, on behalf of Marlene Tapia, filed a federal lawsuit this week two years after the alleged ordeal occurred -- two years after Tapia first contacted the organization.
Simonson said civil rights cases are complicated to build, but that his staff filed the case within the two-year statute of limitations.
According to court records, police arrested Tapia for a probation violation tied to a previous drug case. While at the Metropolitan Detention Center, Tapia said two officers strip searched her and asked her to bend over at the waist. Thats when they noticed a plastic baggie protruding from Tapias vagina.
Instead of taking Tapia to a doctor to have the baggie removed, she said one of the officers Blanca Zapater sprayed a chemical agent directly on her genitals twice.
Simonson said the chemical agent was mace.
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First Anal Probes, Now This. The Drug War Takes Another Horrifying, NSFW Turn In New Mexico.
From the state that gave us stories of forced anal probes, enemas, and colonoscopies a few weeks ago, we now get this:
A New Mexico woman claims she suffered for weeks after a Bernalillo County corrections officer strip-searched her and sprayed mace in her vagina.
“It’s tantamount to torture,” Peter Simonson, the Executive Director of ACLU of New Mexico said in an interview with 4 On Your Side.
The ACLU, on behalf of Marlene Tapia, filed a federal lawsuit this week two years after the alleged ordeal occurred -- two years after Tapia first contacted the organization.
Simonson said civil rights cases are complicated to build, but that his staff filed the case within the two-year statute of limitations.
According to court records, police arrested Tapia for a probation violation tied to a previous drug case. While at the Metropolitan Detention Center, Tapia said two officers strip searched her and asked her to bend over at the waist. That’s when they noticed a plastic baggie protruding from Tapia’s vagina.
Instead of taking Tapia to a doctor to have the baggie removed, she said one of the officers – Blanca Zapater – sprayed a chemical agent directly on her genitals twice.
Simonson said the chemical agent was mace.
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New Mexico police patrol San Franfreako???!!
