Police Officers Now Using TSA Like Strip Searches in Atlanta During Traffic Stops

Two Atlanta men have come forward telling the story of how three police officers performed illegal strip searches of the men during a routine traffic stop. Both men claim they were subject to illegal cavity searches that violated the Fourth Amendment.

One of the men, who was driving, said members of the Red Dog unit pulled over his vehicle and forced him to pull down his pants on the side of the road in broad daylight, as officers conducted a search for drugs. No drugs were ever found, driver Brian Kidd said.

Kidd told Philips that his roommate, Shawn Venegas, was also subjected to a body cavity search that left him feeling uncomfortable.

“They went to his bottom part. That’s as low as you can go. I don’t think anybody should be subjected to that kind of search,” Kidd said. “I had to look away because I couldn’t watch my friend be done like that.”

Venegas said he was so traumatized by the incident that he moved to another state.
"I feel molested, and I feel like I was raped," Venegas told Philips over the phone.

Two of the three officers involved in the stop were also named in the infamous Atlanta Eagle bar raid that the city recently settled. Co-counsel on the traffic stop case, Dan Grossman, was the lead attorney in the Atlanta Eagle case.

“I’ve heard many stories from citizens who were stripped in public by Red Dog,” Grossman said.

The Fourth Amendment is dead. This isn't supposed to be happening in America. Now we know we can't trust Republicans to turn back the tide of this oppressive police state taking form in the United States considering Congressmen Peter King and Billy Long among other Republicans are preparing to deliver new tools to Big Sis Janet Napolitano and the Department of Homeland Security.