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Wed Jun 21, 2017, 07:17 PM Jun 2017

Lawsuit: Police Laughed While Rectally Probing Inauguration Mass-Arrest Group, Didn't Change Gloves [View all]

A lawsuit filed Wednesday says invasive and unnecessary rectal exams followed the mass arrest of 235 people in the nation's capital during President Donald Trump’s inauguration.

At least five people were rectally probed, the lawsuit says. And the number of demonstrators, journalists and legal advisers forced to remove their pants for the procedure may be much higher, says Scott Michelman, senior staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union of the District of Columbia.

“I think part of the reason this hasn’t come out more is that people are reluctant to talk about it,” says Michelman, who is representing the four original plaintiffs on the lawsuit.

https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2017-06-21/lawsuit-police-laughed-while-rectally-probing-inauguration-mass-arrest-group-didnt-change-gloves

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