On Oct. 2, 2014, Lakeya Hicks and Elijah Pontoon had broken no law, violated no traffic code and were simply driving down the road when they were targeted and pulled over by Aiken police officer Chris Medlin.
Medlin explained to the couple that he stopped them because they had temporary tags on the car. According to South Carolina law, there is nothing wrong with temp tags, so long as they aren’t expired. Hicks explained that she had recently purchased the car, and that is the reason for the tags. Medlin even tells the couple that the tags check out.
The stop, which never should have happened in the first place, should have ended right then. However, Medlin, working on a hunch, just knew that this couple was up to no good. Medlin orders Pontoon out of the car and handcuffs him — for no reason.
“Because of your history, I’ve got a dog coming in here. Gonna walk a dog around the car,” says this tyrant, and apparently racist cop. “You gonna pay for this one, boy.”
Pontoon has no history though, at least not since 2006, which is hardly a reason to stop the man now.
After unlawfully detaining the couple, with no probable cause, a drug dog shows up — but it finds nothing. Again, this illegal stop should have ended here. But it didn’t, and, instead, got much worse.
By now, there are four officers on the scene, one of whom is a female. Medlin then tells the female officer to “search her real good,” referring to Hicks. While the search of Hicks happened off camera, according to a federal lawsuit filed by attorney Robert Phillips, it involved exposing Hicks’ breasts in the populated area. Mind you, this is at noon on a Friday.
After sexually assaulting Hicks and finding nothing, the cops then direct their attention to Pontoon.
“You’ve got something here right between your legs. There’s something hard right there between your legs.” Medlin says, noting that he’s going to “put some gloves on.”
Again, the cops appear to move out of the view of the camera to protect themselves while sodomizing a man on the roadside. However, the graphic audio leaves no room for speculation as to what happened.
As cops launch their assault on this innocent man’s rectum, Pontoon complains that they are grabbing his hemorrhoid.
“I’ve had hemorrhoids, and they ain’t that hard,” replies the apparently racist, and now rapist, cop.
As Radly Balko points out in his article on the Post, at about 12:47:15 in the video, the audio actually suggests that two officers may have inserted fingers into Pontoon’s rectum, as one asks, “What are you talking about, right here?” The other replies, “Right straight up in there.”
The cops continue their attack on this innocent man for several minutes moving their fingers in and out of his rectum searching for non-existent drugs.
“If that’s a hemorrhoid, that’s a hemorrhoid, all right? But that don’t feel like no hemorrhoid to me,” one officer says as he sexually assaults Pontoon.
Much to the rapist and racist cops’ chagrin, they found nothing. Medlin then tells Pontoon to turn around and says, “Now I know you from before, from when I worked dope. I seen you. That’s why I put a dog on the car.”
Medlin effectively admits that he had no probable cause to stop the couple, as Pontoon lacks any charges for the last decade. He then lets the couple off with a “courtesy warning.” However, as the Post points out, according to the complaint, there’s no indication of what the warning was actually for. Perhaps it was to warn to steer clear of police officers in Aiken.
The vileness of the state’s wicked and immoral war on drugs has reared its repugnant face. When will the rest of society see that face and wake up to this atrocity? When will the people say “enough is enough,” and that finger raping innocent people on the roadside in search of arbitrary substances is no longer welcome in our culture?
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#1: Tooconservative To: Deckard (#0)
Dumbfounding.
Tooconservative posted on 2016-04-04 11:14:04 Reply Private Reply
#2: Stoner To: Deckard (#0)
Boy, those hero's are really mental giants
Stoner posted on 2016-04-04 14:14:03 Reply Private Reply
#3: ConservingFreedom To: Stoner (#2)
Never attend their parties.
ConservingFreedom posted on 2016-04-04 14:32:14 Reply Private Reply
#4: Pinguinite To: Deckard (#0)
Pinguinite posted on 2016-04-04 16:19:31 Reply Private Reply
#5: Deckard To: Pinguinite (#4)
I wouldn't call $150,000 "big".
Aiken, SC — A South Carolina couple who was strip searched and sodomized in public by Aiken police has settled a lawsuit against four officers. The incident was recorded on dash cam and is nothing short of disgusting.
According to the Beaumont Enterprise, documents filed in federal court late last week show Lakeya Hicks and Elijah Pontoon stipulated to the dismissal of their lawsuit against police officers for the City of Aiken. Court papers didn’t include an amount of the settlement. But a document obtained by the Aiken Standard indicated the city’s insurer is paying a $150,000 settlement.
On Oct. 2, 2014, Lakeya Hicks and Elijah Pontoon had broken no law, violated no traffic code and were simply driving down the road when they were targeted and pulled over by Aiken police officer Chris Medlin.
Deckard posted on 2017-07-25 13:19:10 Reply Private Reply
#6: Pinguinite To: Deckard (#5)
If it's true the stop had no probable cause, then the cops should be sued in their personal capacity, perhaps in addition to the city.
Maybe they had to pay out as well but such a detail wasn't made public as per the settlement?
Pinguinite posted on 2017-07-25 13:34:18 Reply Private Reply
#7: Stoner To: Deckard (#5)
When are the insurance companies going to require the PD's to conduct IQ tests on the members of the force? And require the PD members to put their personal real estate, bank accounts, salaries, retirement accounts, etc up as collateral?
Stoner posted on 2017-07-25 13:38:12 Reply Private Reply
#8: Deckard To: Pinguinite (#6)
They should have the same rules as doctors and be required to carry their own individual malpractice insurance policies.
Maybe they'd think twice before they pulled this kind of crap.
Deckard posted on 2017-07-25 13:42:41 Reply Private Reply
#9: Deckard To: Stoner (#7)
The courts have already ruled the police departments do not have to hire anyone who is too intelligent.
And require the PD members to put their personal real estate, bank accounts, salaries, retirement accounts, etc up as collateral?
That's one option - maybe some sort of individual insurance policy that the cops would have to pay into.
It sucks that all of these excessive force, wrong house raids, criminal actions by cops lawsuits are paid by the taxpayers.
Deckard posted on 2017-07-25 13:46:16 Reply Private Reply
#10: Stoner To: Deckard (#9)
Yeah, it really does. The cities should require the officers to purchase their own liability insurance, just like hospitals require Doctors to purchase their own malpractice insurance. The cities, counties, etc should unite and have the same policy. I am sure many of the officers will balk at the, but if every agency has that policy, they would have to do it.
Probably won't happen, but citizens / taxpayers should push for it, or vote out their mayors, council members, etc. After all, it is their money at risk.
Stoner posted on 2017-07-25 14:26:48 Reply Private Reply
#11: Stoner To: Deckard (#9)
Stoner posted on 2017-07-26 10:14:45 Reply Private Reply
#12: Deckard To: Stoner, misterwhite, Gatlin, Justified (#11)
Maybe the actions of these cops are too heinous even for them.
Deckard posted on 2017-07-26 10:20:18 Reply Private Reply
#13: misterwhite To: Deckard (#0)
"Drug dealers not welcome".
misterwhite posted on 2017-07-26 10:25:08 Reply Private Reply
#14: Deckard To: misterwhite (#13)
This couple were not "drug dealers".
But you knew that already.
Medlin effectively admits that he had no probable cause to stop the couple, as Pontoon lacks any charges for the last decade.
Not surprised to see that you enthusiastically support cops anally raping innocent citizens.
“If that’s a hemorrhoid, that’s a hemorrhoid, all right? But that don’t feel like no hemorrhoid to me,” one officer says as he sexually assaults Pontoon.
Typical cop perversion on display again.
“You’ve got something here right between your legs. There’s something hard right there between your legs.” Medlin says,
Nah...nothing faggoty about this cop.
Deckard posted on 2017-07-26 10:38:25 Reply Private Reply
#15: misterwhite To: Deckard (#14)
Elijah Pontoon "has a lengthy criminal history that includes drug charges." Dr Drug dealers not welcome. Drug dealers not welcome.
misterwhite posted on 2017-07-26 11:13:56 Reply Private Reply
#16: Justified To: Deckard (#12)
Maybe we do not believe anything you post.
We have spent way to much time finding out most of your post are distortions or just flat lies.
You are an anarchist.
Justified posted on 2017-07-26 11:15:35 Reply Private Reply
#17: Deckard To: misterwhite (#15)
Deckard posted on 2017-07-26 11:27:09 Reply Private Reply
#18: misterwhite To: Deckard (#17)
You'd think, huh? They must really hate drug dealers in Aiken.
misterwhite posted on 2017-07-26 11:36:12 Reply Private Reply
#19: Deckard To: misterwhite (#18)
Perhaps they do, however that doesn't give the cop a right to stop them without probable cause based only on a "hunch".
On Oct. 2, 2014, Lakeya Hicks and Elijah Pontoon had broken no law, violated no traffic code and were simply driving down the road when they were targeted and pulled over by Aiken police officer Chris Medlin.
Medlin explained to the couple that he stopped them because they had temporary tags on the car. According to South Carolina law, there is nothing wrong with temp tags, so long as they aren’t expired. Hicks explained that she had recently purchased the car, and that is the reason for the tags.
Medlin even tells the couple that the tags check out.
The stop, which never should have happened in the first place, should have ended right then.
Deckard posted on 2017-07-26 12:29:04 Reply Private Reply