{"id":40241,"date":"2019-10-16T19:54:34","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T00:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=40241"},"modified":"2019-10-16T19:54:34","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T00:54:34","slug":"wapo-her-tampon-was-pulled-out-in-public-by-a-police-officer-looking-for-drugs-now-she-could-get-205000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=40241","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: Her tampon was pulled out in public by a police officer looking for drugs. Now, she could get $205,000."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2019\/10\/16\/san-antonio-woman-tampon-pulled-by-cop-cavity-search-drugs-settles-lawsuit\/\">Her tampon was pulled out in public by a police officer looking for drugs. Now, she could get $205,000.<\/a> By Allyson Chiu:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Natalie D. Simms was in shock as she stood on the dimly lit side street in San Antonio with her hands raised in the air. A police officer looking for drugs had failed to find anything after combing through her pockets \u2014 but much to Simms\u2019s horror, the search wasn\u2019t over.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpread your legs,\u201d the officer allegedly told Simms.<\/p>\n<p>On Aug. 8, 2016, Simms was subjected to a public vaginal cavity search during which her tampon was pulled out in view of male police officers and others nearby, according to a federal lawsuit filed last year in the Western District of Texas. Simms sued the city of San Antonio and now-retired San Antonio Police Department detective Mara Wilson for unspecified damages, alleging that the act was a \u201cblatant violation\u201d of her constitutional rights, and resulted \u201cin significant and lasting harm.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: Her tampon was pulled out in public by a police officer looking for drugs. Now, she could get $205,000. By Allyson Chiu:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-body-searches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40241","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=40241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40242,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40241\/revisions\/40242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}