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April 3rd, 2016 
Awake Goy
Susanne Posel ,Chief Editor Occupy Corporatism | Media Spokesperson, HEALTH MAX Brands
South Carolina police have been caught proving that irrational and racially-motivated hatred is rampant in law enforcement via a video that is making the rounds.
Lakeya Hicks, an African American woman, was pulled over by 2 white cops for having a paper license.
Hicks had recently purchased the vehicle and was using the Department of Motor Vehicles issued paper tag while waiting for the real one to arrive in the mail. The paper tag was not expired, and a check on her license did not yield any outstanding offenses; however the police decided to press further.
Officer Chris Medlin questioned the passenger, Elijah Pontoon, for his ID and ordered him out of the car after finding he has a criminal background.
Medlin handcuffed Pontoon because of his “history”, threatened the black man with a drug sniffing dog and said: “You gonna pay for this one, boy.”
After the K9 unit fails to find drugs or contraband in the car, the officers decided to search Pontoon’s rectum at the scene and in public.
The video captures the cops finding a “hemorrhoid” but no drugs. Hicks was also searched by the female officer in attendance. During the search, Hicks’ breasts were exposed to the 3 male officers at the scene. This search, like Pontoon’s, was done in public.
And despite the harassment and humiliation, the officers still found nothing.
Medlin told his superior via the radio: “We search the car. There ain’t nothing in the car… And on a search of him, up in his crotch by the butt, I felt something hard. I lifted his pants and pulled the back of his underwear down and I didn’t see anything but I didn’t get all the way up in there to get no vertical up shot. I just pulled his underwear back, but I didn’t see nothing. But it felt, he said it was a hemorrhoid. It ain’t no… it was a rock. It was a rock of crack. It’s gotta be a rock. He’s got it up in his butt.”
The officer continues: “But there ain’t no way to justify. He said, ‘I got nothing here. That’s a long time ago. I ain’t doing nothing.’ He said it’s a hemorrhoid. I got nothing else to go on. Nothing. Yeah we’re gonna have to cut him loose here.”
Besides the gross violation of decency to Pontoon and Hicks, the officers failed to establish probable cause which is where the victims have a legal grievance.
According to David Price, practicing attorney in South Carolina, probable cause “is a substantial and objective belief that a crime was committed and that the person to be arrested committed the alleged offense”; and although it does “not require absolute certainty”, it does demand that there “be more than a mere suspicion of responsibility”.
This is where the officers went wrong. Simply based on Pontoon’s criminal background (which is a suspicion of responsibility), the cops decided to search the vehicle, and conduct the rectal searches.
South Carolina cops have a history of racism which was highlighted in the 2015 shooting of Walter Scott by Officer Michael Slager.
Muhiyidin Moye D’Baha, an organizer for the Black Lives Matter group, said this incident “is not isolated” and that aggressive tactics police use in African American neighborhoods “is something that exists within a system” that is state-wide.
And while racism is an aspect of the problem, it is also a perception issue that exists within law enforcement that facilitates the danger these officers pose to the public.
In August of 2015, Zachary Hammond, an unarmed 19 year old white male, was shot and killed by a police officer in South Carolina. The reason the officer is using to justify Hammond’s death is: He feared for his life.
Hammond was in his car at a Hardee’s getting food at the drive-through when Lieutenant Mark Tiller claims (in his report) that Hammond “then rapidly accelerated in the direction of [myself], forcing [me] to push off of Mr. Harnmond’s car to keep from being struck and run over.”
John Mussetto, attorney for Tiller, said: “In order to stop the continuing threat to himself and the general public, two shots were fired by Lieutenant Tiller in quick succession.”
Mussetto claimed Tiller would have “easily been run over” by Hammond’s car.
However, the trajectory of the bullets that struck Hammond which fired from Tiller’s gun tell a different story.
According to reports from an independent autopsy, “the bullets came through the driver’s side window – proving [Tiller] was not in the vehicle’s path.”
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