Whitey Ford
10-16-2019, 02:52 AM
San Antonio offers $205,000 settlement in lawsuit alleging illegal search
City lawyers have offered $205,000 to a woman who accused a San Antonio police detective of pulling down her shorts in public and inappropriately searching her for contraband, city records show.
Natalie Simms, 40, sued the city and now-retired Detective Mara Wilson last year, alleging Wilson at one point removed a tampon from Simms’ vaginal cavity and held it in the air, examining it.
The City Council will vote on the proposed settlement Thursday. Settlements over $50,000 require council approval.
According to the lawsuit, Simms was sitting on a curb near downtown on Aug. 8, 2016, waiting for her then-boyfriend when police officers approached her and asked if they could search her vehicle for drugs.
A police detective later said officers were conducting surveillance in the area to investigate possible drug activity — about which they had received complaints — and that he had observed Simms and another female walk under a highway underpass and appear to sell drugs.
Wilson arrived and started to search Simms and at one point pulled down her shorts and examined her vaginal area as the male officers were within view, the lawsuit states.
https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/San-Antonio-offers-205-000-settlement-in-lawsuit-14520714.php
Texas city offers $205,000 to woman who accused police of illegal cavity search in public
After Wilson arrived, the detective started searching Simms and pulled down her shorts and examined her vaginal cavity on a public street while male officers were within view, the lawsuit says. The incident was recorded on Wilson's dash cam.
"Officer Wilson knew that she could not expose Natalie's pubic hair, vagina, or other parts of her body which are so intimate as to be covered up regularly in public," the lawsuit says. "Unfortunately, Officer Wilson's knowledge was no concern to her and did not guide her search. Officer Wilson chose to culminate her search by conducting a vaginal cavity search."
https://www.wxyz.com/news/national/texas-city-offers-205-000-to-woman-who-accused-police-of-illegal-cavity-search-in-public
City lawyers have offered $205,000 to a woman who accused a San Antonio police detective of pulling down her shorts in public and inappropriately searching her for contraband, city records show.
Natalie Simms, 40, sued the city and now-retired Detective Mara Wilson last year, alleging Wilson at one point removed a tampon from Simms’ vaginal cavity and held it in the air, examining it.
The City Council will vote on the proposed settlement Thursday. Settlements over $50,000 require council approval.
According to the lawsuit, Simms was sitting on a curb near downtown on Aug. 8, 2016, waiting for her then-boyfriend when police officers approached her and asked if they could search her vehicle for drugs.
A police detective later said officers were conducting surveillance in the area to investigate possible drug activity — about which they had received complaints — and that he had observed Simms and another female walk under a highway underpass and appear to sell drugs.
Wilson arrived and started to search Simms and at one point pulled down her shorts and examined her vaginal area as the male officers were within view, the lawsuit states.
https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/San-Antonio-offers-205-000-settlement-in-lawsuit-14520714.php
Texas city offers $205,000 to woman who accused police of illegal cavity search in public
After Wilson arrived, the detective started searching Simms and pulled down her shorts and examined her vaginal cavity on a public street while male officers were within view, the lawsuit says. The incident was recorded on Wilson's dash cam.
"Officer Wilson knew that she could not expose Natalie's pubic hair, vagina, or other parts of her body which are so intimate as to be covered up regularly in public," the lawsuit says. "Unfortunately, Officer Wilson's knowledge was no concern to her and did not guide her search. Officer Wilson chose to culminate her search by conducting a vaginal cavity search."
https://www.wxyz.com/news/national/texas-city-offers-205-000-to-woman-who-accused-police-of-illegal-cavity-search-in-public