Innocent Teenage Girls Forced to "Jump Up and Down" During Marijuana Search
Following the Supreme Court's recent decision that school officials violated the 4th Amendment when they strip-searched a 13-year-old girl, another similar lawsuit has been filed and the story is equally sickening:
According to the complaint, the incident began when the bus arrived at the school and two employees boarded it in order to resolve a dispute in which the girls were not involved. The employees "smelled what they thought was marijuana," the complaint states, and five girls seated at the back of the bus, including Gaither and S.C., were detained and searched.
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During an interrogation that lasted the entire school day, and after being denied repeated requests to call their parents, the girls were required to "remove their shoes and socks, unbuckle their belts, unbutton their pants, and unzip their pants," the complaint says. They also had their "waistlines physically touched and searched" by a male employee while their pants were undone, and were made to "lift up their bras while their shirts remained on and jump up and down."The searches were all performed behind closed doors and without the presence of police offices or female staff, the suit says. No marijuana was found. [Courthouse News]
The whole thing is so perverse and disturbing, it really ought to be examined in criminal court as well as civil. By the time a group of teenage girls was ordered lift their bras and hop up and down, it wasn't just a drug search anymore. This was something much sicker than that. But you can thank decades of propaganda-fueled marijuana hysteria for creating the environment in which school officials think they can get away with stuff like this.
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redditCommie Feelinya
Comment posted by Anonymous on Fri, 07/03/2009 - 10:32amOh, and I always wondered who the real commies were. It's definately not the people who are trying to legalize marijuana. Maybe if these girls were armed. But then again the commies will not allow civilians to protect themselves, their privacy, their rights or their property. Their big rough hands will do it for them instead. They know best.
Rid our schools of
Comment posted by Anonymous on Fri, 07/03/2009 - 10:57amRid our schools of pedophilistic administrators, legalize all drugs!
"No marijuana was found"
Comment posted by rita on Fri, 07/03/2009 - 2:46pmOf course, if marijuana or ibuprofen HAD been found, these searches would have been justified and these stories would never had come to light.
According to the US Constitution, EVERY drug raid and EVERY drug search is conducted against innocent people.
School search
Comment posted by van on Sat, 07/04/2009 - 2:20pmIn this day and age the school officals should have known better. Why didn't they call the cops and let them handle these dangerous drug users. The school officals should be facing criminal charges. There is no excuse here, the officals violated the civil rights of their students.
Probably Criminal
Comment posted by Anonymous on Sat, 07/04/2009 - 4:57pmAs an ex-cop, I can assure you that if this incident had been reported to me I would definitely have taken a criminal complaint on this incident. Of course, I don't know what the DA would have done with it, but the elements of sexual abuse were certainly there.
so what
Comment posted by Anonymous on Sun, 07/05/2009 - 4:21pmhey they had the right to search them girls and make em bounce up and down with their little boobies the imporant thing is NO MARIJUANA was found and now they know their school is safe
These employees should be fired
Comment posted by Anonymous on Tue, 07/07/2009 - 9:49amI think a major issue with this situation is that these girls were treated as criminals by employees of the school. The people conducting the search were not police officers and in my oppinion had no right to dealing with these kids especially in the manner that they did. You want to debate whether marijuana should be legalized or not that is fine but you cannot debate that the only people that should be searching anyone to that extent should be police officers that are trained to conduct searches like this.
ERIC
Comment posted by Anonymous on Tue, 07/07/2009 - 4:46pmshut the hell up they did what was \right them girls lost all their rights when they got on the bus smelling like marijuana they did the proper thing i support what they did was legal so shutt the hell up u low life scum bag druggie
fuck you child molester
Comment posted by Anonymous on Sat, 07/11/2009 - 9:42pmfuck you child molester
Its illegal for anyone to
Comment posted by Anonymous on Tue, 07/07/2009 - 8:11pmIts illegal for anyone to search your person unless your a cop. Were they cops....no. Can I come up to you if your smoking pot on my property and legally search you? The answer is no. The police should have been called. I understand weed is illegal but Americans have rights that are supposed to protect them from this shit.
No Justice is Good Justice!?
Comment posted by Anonymous on Wed, 03/17/2010 - 9:36amI disagree. I think the school officials had every right to check those girls if they were endangering the lives of other schoolmates. The law was broken when no one made an attempt to notify the parents to get consent for the search.(If you wonder why i say endanger the lives.. keep reading lower on other post made). Although i believe the main issue is .. female employees should have been called in to perform all of the checks. For your information you do have the right to perform a check on anyone on your property. Only thing is they have the right to deny the search but must get Off/Out of your property.
Also
Comment posted by Anonymous on Tue, 07/07/2009 - 8:12pmLast time I checked you are innocent until proven guilty not the other way around
no its not illegal
Comment posted by Anonymous on Wed, 07/08/2009 - 12:58amthem girls smelled like pot so there for they had the right to search them kids do not have legal rights at all so stop defending these little criminal druggies the school had every legal right to do that it was nessary for the safey of the students okay so shut up this was legal
Illegally emitting odor?
Comment posted by mlang52 on Fri, 07/10/2009 - 1:36amIllegal to "smell like pot". What does that smell like, anyway? Smelling like anything is a guess that someone makes with his nose. Is it illegal to smell like booze? No! You have to have proof of consumption (BAC etc) Smoking it and possession are both still illegal, as you say. But, none of these kids had any in their possession. No one saw them smoking any either! Call it legal all you want, but I hope the courts decide otherwise. I do not agree with or condone underage drinking, as well as kids smoking pot.
Let the drug dealers continue to sell at schools?! They are in control of the drugs and they love your kids' money!! Until the people wake up, the kids will be able to get drugs easier than they can buy booze or cigarettes! Something has to change!
how the fuck does weed
Comment posted by Anonymous on Fri, 07/10/2009 - 10:23amhow the fuck does weed endanger the whole school asshole
Safety Hazard
Comment posted by Anonymous on Wed, 03/17/2010 - 9:25amIt endangers the entire school because a lot of students have breathing problems (asthma) and high allergies. Mix their breathing problems with cigarettes or marijuana air depriving odors and it causes a health risk. No need to call people names just because you don't agree with another persons thoughts.
Justice was swift
Comment posted by Anonymous on Wed, 03/17/2010 - 9:17amI don't agree with how the school officials dealt with the situation at all, but one thing is for sure..had the girls not smoked the marijuana .. none of this would be happening right now. Of course nothing was found on them, they smoked it because thats what you do with marijuana before you get off the bus. This is the reason they smelt like it!! Any clear headed judge should penalize em both!! Neither parties are innocent in my eyes. Its true its not illegal to smell like booze.. but if its coming from your mouth its a different story. As for marijuana can at times be hard to pick up the scent....unless your standing around 4-5 people that had nothing better to do but sit in a enclosed hot bus in the very back where the pot heads sit lol. I say strip the officials of being allowed to work in middle schools and fine the crap out of those girls parents and make the girls perform a certain amount of hours of community service.
jesus h. christ
Comment posted by Anonymous on Fri, 07/03/2009 - 8:12amwhat's the word i'm looking for to describe this? oh yeah, sexual assault.