Florida Friday: Lakeland police caught shaking it up (Video)
Posted by: Jon on 06/21/2013 11:43 AM
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A Highly questionable police practice is being investigated in Lakeland, FL, the incident that was caught on a dashboard camera shows an officer who, in an unjustified hunt for drugs, instructed a woman to shake out her bra and searched her car as she pleaded with him to stop.
"This highly questionable search method is not only demeaning," Hill wrote, "but is ineffective and possibly dangerous."
He went on to say that if a suspect had a weapon hidden under her shirt, such a method could allow her to grab it.
Officer Dustin Fetz asked the woman to lift her shirt above her stomach, pull her bra away from her chest and shake it, all without a reason to suspect she carried drugs during a May 21 traffic stop, according to Hill's letter and a State Attorney's Office investigation report.
Unsatisfied with her first attempt, Fetz made her lift and shake her bra a second time.
Again, no drugs tumbled out. None were found in a search of her, her boyfriend or the car they were in.
"I hope training and supervision deficiencies can soon be corrected," he wrote at the end of his letter.
"This highly questionable search method is not only demeaning," Hill wrote, "but is ineffective and possibly dangerous."
He went on to say that if a suspect had a weapon hidden under her shirt, such a method could allow her to grab it.
Officer Dustin Fetz asked the woman to lift her shirt above her stomach, pull her bra away from her chest and shake it, all without a reason to suspect she carried drugs during a May 21 traffic stop, according to Hill's letter and a State Attorney's Office investigation report.
Unsatisfied with her first attempt, Fetz made her lift and shake her bra a second time.
Again, no drugs tumbled out. None were found in a search of her, her boyfriend or the car they were in.
"I hope training and supervision deficiencies can soon be corrected," he wrote at the end of his letter.
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