{"id":34358,"date":"2018-08-20T03:58:02","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T08:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=34358"},"modified":"2018-08-20T04:00:32","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T09:00:32","slug":"salt-lake-tribune-in-horrifying-detail-women-accuse-u-s-customs-officers-of-invasive-body-searches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=34358","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: In horrifying detail, women accuse U.S. customs officers of invasive body searches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/in-horrifying-detail-women-accuse-us-customs-officers-of-invasive-body-searches\/2018\/08\/18\/ad7b7d82-9b38-11e8-8d5e-c6c594024954_story.html?utm_term=.7379fcf699ee\">In horrifying detail, women accuse U.S. customs officers of invasive body searches<\/a> by Susan Ferriss, Center for Public Integrity:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Tameika Lovell was retrieving luggage at New York\u2019s John F. Kennedy International Airport when Customs and Border Protection officers detained her for a random search. It was Nov. 27, 2016, the Sunday after Thanksgiving, and the school counselor from Long Island had just returned from a short Jamaica vacation. Lovell, who is black, had been stopped before, but this time a CBP supervisor began asking questions she hadn\u2019t heard previously.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t you think you\u2019re spending too much money traveling?\u201d Lovell, 34, recalls a CBP supervisor asking.<\/p>\n<p>What happened next is the subject of a harrowing lawsuit pending in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Inside a secure room, Lovell\u2019s litigation alleges, a female CBP officer searched Lovell\u2019s belongings, presumably for illegal drugs, and asked if she was using a tampon or sanitary pad. The question upset her, but Lovell replied \u201cno\u201d and complied when told to remove her shoes, lift her arms and spread her legs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: In horrifying detail, women accuse U.S. customs officers of invasive body searches by Susan Ferriss, Center for Public Integrity:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-body-searches","category-border-search"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34358"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34360,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34358\/revisions\/34360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}