
When the Cops Take Your Urine by ForceOctober 4, 2016 |
Q: Did it hurt when she inserted it?
A: Oh, yeah. Bad.
Q: Describe that for me.
A: Just as if somebody would take a burning hot coal and stick it up your penis.
— Deposition of Jamie Lockard, in a lawsuit against police in southeastern Indiana
In the United States there is a wealth of case law pertaining to the Fourth Amendment, with the U.S. Supreme Court and the rest of the judiciary fashioning jurisprudence on what constitutes an unreasonable search or seizure. But the courts have yet to reach any kind of consensus about one particularly cringe-worthy practice, as exemplified by what happened to Jamie Lockard in a small town in southeast Indiana, close to the Ohio border.
By Bengt Oberger – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=22571976
Tags: bioethics, catheter, consent, evidence, investigation, medical procedure, policy, prisoner, rights, urine