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Hey, everyone, welcome back to Exposed, Scandalous Files of the Elite.
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I am your host, Jim Chapman, and we are jumping
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right into today's wild episode of Exposed. And look, we
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cover it all on this show. Maybe you're a famous
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football player, or maybe you are a politician who's acting bad,
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or maybe you're a trusted member of the society like
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a police officer, and you are doing the wrong thing,
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you may end up on this show. And that is
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what has happened to five officers of the Columbia Lice
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Department in Mississippi. And look, y'all, this this story is
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Craig Cray. That's the best way I can describe this one.
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I'm gonna bring you through the whole thing, but I
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need to preface this one with none of this has
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been adjudicated. This is a civil case that has just
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been filed, and all of the people I'm gonna mention
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are innocent until proven guilty. I don't know, I wasn't there.
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I don't have firsthand knowledge of any of this, but
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I'm certainly going to report what the accusations are and
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let you kind of follow the case. And y'all, this
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has just occurred within the last few weeks. So I'm
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gonna bring you back to August sixteenth and bring you
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to Columbia, Mississippi. And a newsflash came out across the
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internet and it said five officers submit resignations from the
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Columbia Police Department. Mayor says, and I'm going to credit
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W Damn seven wdam seven, and it says the Columbia
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Police Department is in the midst of a major shakeup
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after several officers, including Chief Michael Kelly, submitted their resignations
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or quit according to the mayor. Columbia Mayor Justin McKenzie
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confirmed that the chief and five other officers have either
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turned in their resignations or walked away from the police
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department over the past week. Mackenzie said one of the
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officers has since asked to rescind her resignation. According to
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the mayor, Kelly tendered his resignation Friday, that being the chief,
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and it will be effective at the end of the day.
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On Tuesday, August twentieth, after the city's board meeting, the
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mayor said Kelly left on good terms. The mayor says
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two other administrative officers also quit on Friday, and walked away.
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Mackenzie says two officers submitted resignations late last week and
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early this week, but the resignations weren't presented to the
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board since the meeting was not until August twentieth. On Thursday,
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another Columbia Police Department officer resigned after learning she had
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been placed on administrative leave pending an outcome of any
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action taken at the board meeting. The reasons behind the
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chiefs and other officers resignations are unknown as of this time.
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Well I know what they were. Mackenzie said all Columbia
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Police Department shifts will be covered and said he was
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confident that officers will maintain safety in town. Mackenzie said
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he has spoken with the Marion County Sheriff, Berkeley Hall,
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and has his support if any assistance is needed. And
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so that came out. That was on the sixteenth of August.
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And look, if you're in Columbia, Mississippi, you're like, ma'am,
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what the hell? We just have people five officers resign,
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one of them being the leader, the chief. That's enough
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to make you kind of wonder what is going down
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in Columbia, Mississippi. Well, it didn't take long to figure
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that out shortly thereafter. As a matter of fact, on
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August twenty second, just a week later, in the State
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District Court of Southern District of Mississippi in the Eastern Division,
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there's a civil suit filed. This was filed on behalf
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of plaintiff's Ginger Upton in plainiff Sarah Beach. Ginger Upton
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lives in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, as does Sarah Beach, and they
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file this lawsuit against Jamie Molds who is a defendant.
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He is a police officer with the Columbia Police Department.
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Chris Bush, also a police officer with the City of
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Columbia Police Department. Lance Pourier a police officer with the
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City of Colombia Police Department. Austin Riles, a police officer
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with the City of Columbia Police Department. And Seth Blackman,
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a police officer with the City of Columbia Police Department.
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Delta Ward also known as Delta Hit, who is a
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police officer with the Columbia Police Department. Michael Kelly, who
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is the Chief of Police of Colombia. So what did
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they do? You may wonder, what are the facts of
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this case? So this is according to and it's important
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to note that this is according to the plaintiffs in
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this case. Again, that's Ginger Upton and Sarah Beach, the
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filers of this lawsuit. So they say, on or about
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January thirtieth of twenty twenty four, Ginger Upton and Sarah
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Beach and two male passengers, they're traveling down what's known
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as Lafayette Street in Columbia, Mississippi, and they were going
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at what they say is a safe and reasonable speed.
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And they note that they were obeying all of the
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traffic laws. And it says in the civil lawsuit, I'm
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going to quote this verbatim to understand just how cruel, invasive, callous,
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and or malitious the defendant's actions were. It's important to
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note that missed Upton and Miss Beach are a mother
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and daughter. Nevertheless, while proceeding down Lafayette Street at a
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safe and reasonable rate of speed and while obeying all
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traffic laws, the planets were pulled over by Officer Jamie
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Molds with the Columbia Police Department. So Miss Upton, she's
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driving the vehicle and upon seeing Officer molds blue lights flashing, right,
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she does what we all would do. She pulls over
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into a nearby parking lot. It was actually a region's
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bank in that area. So Officer Molds he approaches the
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vehicle and he indicates that he pulled the vehicle over
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because he could not see if the occupants were wearing
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their seat belts. And in the lawsuit it notes, in
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other words, officer Molds pulled the vehicle over not because
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he saw a violation, but because he did not or
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could not see a violation. That's pretty crazy reason to
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pull someone over. Now that's what they say, of course,
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and I'm sure there's bodycam footage that's going to come
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out on this. He pulled us over because he couldn't
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see if we were breaking the law or not. I
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found that so funny when I read that in the
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civil suit. So it moves on and it says consequently,
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at no point did Officer Molds have probable cause to
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believe a crime was being committed. And you have to
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if you're going to pull someone over, you have to
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have probable cause, otherwise you could pull any and everybody
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over for any and everything. Right, So, upon discovering that
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all occupants in the vehicle were wearing their seat belts
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in that no crimes or other violations were being committed.
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Officer Molds began further questioning the plainiffs as well as
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the two male occupants that were in the vehicle. Now,
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during this time, other officers with the Columbia Police Department
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were dispatched and they arrive on scene, and the planiffs
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and two male occupants were removed from the vehicle when
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that backup arrived, if you will, Once the two male
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occupants and the two females mother and daughter were outside
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of the vehicle, the police, according to what the planiffs say,
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conducted an illegal and unauthorized search of the vehicle. During
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the search, they found a very small amount of marijuana
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or a roach, as it stated in the lawsuit, Apparently
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one of the male occupants he admitted to smoking marijuana
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in the vehicle of the day before, but he denied
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having any other illegal or illicit substances on his person
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or in the vehicle. Upon completing the unlawful search of
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the vehicle. And you notice they keep pointing to that,
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it's important to note, I'm just gonna say this right here.
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If an officer smells marijuana, he can search a vehicle.
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He doesn't need your permission. At that point, he has
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what's known as probable cause at that point because he
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smelled marijuana, and there's no way to know if somebody
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actually smell marijuana, so they could say I smell marijuana,
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I search the vehicle and there was none. It's kind
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of a weird law. Regardless of that, they did find marijuana.
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So he's now you can throw out the unlawful search.
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All he's got to say is he smelled it before
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he searched. It goes on to say, upon completing that
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unlawful search, the police felled discover any more illegal substances, contraband,
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or criminal violations of any kind, and he still discovered
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the one. So it doesn't matter if they're anymore. But
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it gets better, y'all. At some point during the illegal
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and unauthorized search, one of the females in the car,
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as a matter of fact, it was miss Upton. She
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voices her opinion that there were some bad cops at
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the Columbia Police Force and that she had actually had
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been harassed in the past something similar to that effect.
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So the police officers they hear that, and one of
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them get you know, he figures it out and he says, okay,
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no matter what we do with this woman right now,
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she is going to say we sexually harassed her or something.
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So he gets on this radio and he calls a
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female officer to the scene. Now, it says in the
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lawsuit that it must be noted at all times the
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occupants of the vehicle they were following all the instructions
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given by the police, and so at that point, what
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it's saying in this suit is there was no need
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to call a female officer. Well, bullshit. So shortly thereafter,
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the female officer Delta Ward, she arrives on the scene
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after being called, and Officer Delta she approaches the occupants
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of the car. This is where it gets really crazy, y'all,
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And it says, while placing latex gloves upon her hands
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and popping them on her wrist in an intimidating and
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threatening manner, just like when you go to the doctor. Right,
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they pull the rubber gloves on and they pop them.
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The plaineoffs. They were frightened by Officer Delta's intimidating and
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threatening action, but they were still unaware that soon they
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were going to be subjected to nothing less than a
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sexual assault on the side of a public roadway and
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broad daylight. Officer Delta then escorted miss Upton to the
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front passenger side of her vehicle, where she performed an
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illegal and unauthorized roadside body cavity search in plain view
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of the public and in violation of miss Upton's clearly
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established constitutional rights. It goes on to say, to be clear,
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without justification a warrant or consent, Officer Delta used excessive
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force on miss Upton by placing her fingers along and
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forcing her fingers inside of miss Upton's vagina multiple times,
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all in plain view of the public. Officer Delta also
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pulled plane of Upton's pants aside to where her vagina
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was exposed to public view, unbelievably, while Officer Delta was
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performing her illegal, invasive, humiliating, an unconstitutional search of Miss Upton.
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A group of construction workers and I'm not laughing at this, y'all,
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but I mean, if this is true, it's absolutely horrible.
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But it's almost like something in a movie. A group
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of construction workers were using a nearby atm and witnessed
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the entire incident. Obviously, not only was miss Upton subjected
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to a sexual assault and battery by Officer Delta on
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the side of the road in broad daylight. She was
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also subjected to public humiliation as the construction workers began
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to stare, point and laugh upon witnessing the illegal search.
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To be certain, at no time to Miss Upton consent
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to such a search, and Officer Delta did not obtain
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any warrant prior to performing this. Once Officer Delta completed
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the illegal roadside body cavity search of Miss Upton, she
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accompanied her back to the area where Miss Beach was waiting.
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Officer Delta then asked Miss Beach to come with her. Dejectively,
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Miss Upton tried to explain to her daughter what was
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about to happen, but could not compose herself enough to
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warn Miss Beach she was about to be sexually assaulted
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on the side of a public roadway in broad daylight.
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Officer Delta led Miss Beach to the same area where
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she had just performed the unauthorized search of her mother.
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Miss Upton. Then Officer Delta used excessive force on Miss
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Beach by performing yet another unconstitutional body cavity search. Just
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as with playing if Upton, Officer Delta placed her fingers
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along and forced her fingers inside of Miss Beach's vagina
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multiple times, and yet again, Officer Delta exposed plaintiff beaches
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vagina to public view, thereby subjecting Miss Beach to public humiliation.
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Miss Upton was forced to stand by helplessly and watch
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his officer Delta sexually assaulted her daughter on the side
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of a public road, in broad daylight and in plain
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view of the public. Based upon information and belief defendit,
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Delta used the same gloves that she performed Miss Upton's
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search with and did not change gloves before performing miss
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Upton's search. It must be noted that neither illegal searches
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produced any drugs or illegal substances. So there you have it.
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That's the gist of it. They get pulled over, and
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according to the plainiffs, they both got fingered essentially by
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the officer. And if that is true, it's horrible. With
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these lawsuits, they sue everybody. They sue to the chief
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of police because he didn't train him correctly. They'll sue
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the other officers because maybe they saw it and they
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didn't stop it. Now, there's a lot of moving parts
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in this case. You know, it should be pretty easy
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to dismiss this. If there's body camera footage, but not
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all the time are body cameras turned on, and maybe
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they weren't on in this case. I don't know what
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the policies are in Columbia, Mississippi. This is pretty breaking.
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So what happens at this point, Well, all of the
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officers I named at the beginning of that lawsuit, they
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received a summons to appear in court and answer to
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that lawsuit. Now, it's also interesting to note that on
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the twenty sixth of August twenty twenty four, the plaintiffs
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did offer what's done as a voluntary dismissal against one
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of the officers, a god by the name of Seth Blackman.
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They came back and said, we're not gonna sue that
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particular officer. I'm not really sure why, but that is
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what it is. So we'll move on. Because guess what
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the female officer, Miss Delta in this case. She answered,
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she came out and spoke out on this lawsuit, and
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of course she says it was bullshit. And I'll read
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you that article. It says a former Columbia police officer