New Mexico Subjects Apparently Innocent Motorist To Twelve Hours Of Rectal Violation And A Forced Colonoscopy

Jack Baruth
by Jack Baruth

When David Eckert left the Wal-Mart parking lot in Deming, NM, he apparently failed to come to a complete stop at a stop sign. What happened next is the stuff of prison-planet nightmares.


Multiple sources, including The Blaze, have reprinted Mr. Eckert’s harrowing experience, related below by his attorney and reportedly confirmed by medical records. It began when the police believed he was “clenching his buttocks” as he exited the vehicle. He was taken to a local hospital to have his rectal cavity probed. When the doctors there refused to perform the procedure, the cops took him to a hospital where they weren’t so hung up on the whole human-dignity thing. And then:

1. Eckert’s abdominal area was X-rayed; no narcotics were found.

2. Doctors then performed an exam of Eckert’s anus with their fingers; no narcotics were found.

3. Doctors performed a second exam of Eckert’s anus with their fingers; no narcotics were found.

4. Doctors penetrated Eckert’s anus to insert an enema. Eckert was forced to defecate in front of doctors and police officers. Eckert watched as doctors searched his stool. No narcotics were found.

5. Doctors penetrated Eckert’s anus to insert an enema a second time. Eckert was forced to defecate in front of doctors and police officers. Eckert watched as doctors searched his stool. No narcotics were found.

6. Doctors penetrated Eckert’s anus to insert an enema a third time. Eckert was forced to defecate in front of doctors and police officers. Eckert watched as doctors searched his stool. No narcotics were found.

7. Doctors then X-rayed Eckert again; no narcotics were found.

8. Doctors prepared Eckert for surgery, sedated him, and then performed a colonoscopy where a scope with a camera was inserted into Eckert’s anus, rectum, colon and large intestines. No narcotics were found.

It simply beggars belief that this sort of thing could happen to an American citizen for virtually no reason whatsoever. One has to wonder about the mindset of the judge who signed a search warrant for a procedure like this and the mindset of the doctors who agreed to carry the procedure out. The prospect of a nation full of police officers being trained to evaluate “clenched buttocks” also fails to instill any confidence whatsoever in our government. In effect, Mr. Eckert was treated worse than a prisoner in a maximum-security facility; they’d have given up after the enema.

The most frightening part of the entire story is the suspicion one gets that the colonscopy was, effectively, a punishment for complaining and causing trouble during the other parts of the assault. Your humble E-I-C pro tem happens to be acquainted with a fellow who, after complaining about symptoms of meningitis during a stint at a Midwestern correctional facility, was repeatedly beaten with a pair of handcuffs before being told, “If you don’t shut the f**k up, we’ll let the nurse practice her spinal tap skills on you and there’s a solid chance the bitch will paralyze your ass.” The Hippocratic oath isn’t always “top of mind” for the sort of people who rent themselves to the State.

Should Mr. Eckert be successful in his lawsuit, look for everybody involved to be “punished” with copious amounts of paid vacation time, much like the UC Davis cop who was given paid time off and disability bonus that totaled more than twice the amount paid to any of the students he assaulted. In the meantime, underemployed TTAC readers of a certain age might want to consider the fact that free colorectal scans are apparently available in New Mexico. It’s never too soon to take an active interest in these sorts of things, you know, particularly since the Affordable Care Act now protects you from being rendered uninsurable by pre-existing colon-cancer conditions. The only problem is that the procedure wasn’t actually free; according to Reddit, Mr. Eckert is being billed for the services after the fact.

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  • Thelaine Thelaine on Nov 07, 2013

    If the ladies are feeling left out, they can go to Arkansas. A cop in Arkansas allegedly tasered a woman after she refused to show him her breasts. Ashlea Bennett alleges that uniformed Officer Brandon Carter strutted into her place of work on Dec. 13, 2011, and ordered that she give him a sneak peak of her bosom. When she declined, he reportedly then chased her around the building before zapping her repeatedly with his electroshock gun. Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/woman-tasered-refusing-flash-suit-article-1.1506965#ixzz2jyps7UHl

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    • Thelaine Thelaine on Nov 08, 2013

      @rudiger Yeah! Get some El Paso! Only 5 probes? Maybe it wasn't by choice. Maybe they prematurely terminated.

  • Rudiger Rudiger on Jan 14, 2014

    The cops settled in December, paying Eckert $1.6 million: http://www.kob.com/article/stories/S3279375.shtml I'd say they got off cheap. The article doesn't say what happened to the cops responsible but I would imagine they all got to keep their jobs. Too bad none of the $1.6 million will come out of their paychecks but, instead, from taxpayers. There are still pending lawsuits against the deputy DA who signed off on the search warrant, as well as the doctors and medical facility where the procedures were performed.

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    • Rudiger Rudiger on Jan 14, 2014

      @David "Piston Slap Yo Mama" Sanborn I have no doubt that the $1.6 million is not one cent less than what Eckert wanted. My guess is the defense was going to do anything to keep from going to trial, up to and including giving Eckert every last dime the town had. They knew he was likely to get it (and a whole lot more), anyway. But, yeah, what's sad is there really wasn't any accountability for those responsible, at all. It was just a matter of, "How much do you want to go away? Name your price, and we'll dip into the government coffers and give it to you". The only thing to change will be the cops will be a whole lot more careful the next time they decide to go up someone's ass. Plus, if Eckert is really the low-life that the cops claim, how long before he winds up dead? $1.6 million will buy a lot of meth and be more than enough to do the trick. Until that happens (probably in short order), at least he won't be driving around Deming in a beat-up, old, '98 Dodge pickup anymore. It's very telling that Eckert does not want to be interviewed, photographed, or seen, and the primary reason the story hasn't gotten even more media exposure.

  • AZFelix Hilux technical, preferably with a swivel mount.
  • ToolGuy This is the kind of thing you get when you give people faster internet.
  • ToolGuy North America is already the greatest country on the planet, and I have learned to be careful about what I wish for in terms of making changes. I mean, if Greenland wants to buy JDM vehicles, isn't that for the Danes to decide?
  • ToolGuy Once again my home did not catch on fire and my fire extinguisher(s) stayed in the closet, unused. I guess I threw my money away on fire extinguishers.(And by fire extinguishers I mean nuclear missiles.)
  • Carson D The UAW has succeeded in organizing a US VW plant before. There's a reason they don't teach history in the schools any longer. People wouldn't make the same mistakes.
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