Missouri Law Enforcement Officers Indicted For Stealing Nudes

The online reactionary take in this instance is to blame women for taking nudes in the first place.

However . . .

According to the indictments, there's reasonable cause to suspect two Missouri law enforcement officials of a SERIOUS betrayal of trust. 

More importantly . . .When it comes to traffic stops and without any warrant, there probably isn't any reason to allow police to search a phone . . . Especially given that the government, the Chinese & clever stalkers are pretty much tracking it all the time anyhoo.

Here are deets of report and the case moves forward . . .

"In both cases, federal prosecutors allege the officers asked women for their phones – ostensibly to check their insurance coverage, vehicle registration or identification – and then searched the women’s phones for nude images, the US attorney’s office for Missouri’s eastern district asserts in the indictments. In two cases, ONE LAW ENFORCEMENT SUSPECT also took the phones of alleged victims after arresting them.

"The officers then used their personal cell phones to take photos of nude images they found – often images of the women, but in a few cases images of other people, the indictments say. Images of the nude photos were found on the men’s phones and on SUSPECT'S iCloud account, according to the indictments.

"While the indictments don’t specify how the men came under suspicion, the attorney for one of the alleged victims has said she reported an incident to the FBI, and one of the alleged victims has said she reported him to his supervisor."

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

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