Man Subjected To Body Cavity Search At Traffic Stop

WSB Atlanta
Jan. 30, 2011

[...] In an exclusive interview with Philips, the passenger in the car said members of the Red Dog unit pulled over his friend's vehicle and forced the driver, Shawn Venegas, to pull down his pants on the side of the road in broad daylight. He says officers conducted a body cavity search for drugs on Venegas. No drugs were ever found, passenger Brian Kidd said.

“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.”

Kidd told Philips that an officer also reached down his pants searching his private parts for drugs.

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 in a phone interview. [...]

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

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