Monday, December 30, 2013

Cop gets two years for illegal anal cavity searches

Robby Soave
Daily Caller
December 30, 2013

The end of 2013 brought a measure of closure to a long-running Milwaukee police scandal, though some say the officer — and his cohorts — who repeatedly and illegally shoved his fingers up black male suspects’ anal cavities got off with a light sentence considering the flagrant nature of his abuses.

Milwaukee Police Chief Ed Flynn said he had to wait "a couple of years" for an investigation into Vagnini's illegal and sadistic searches which rarely involved gloves. Credit: AlbertHerring via Flickr
Milwaukee Police Chief Ed Flynn said he had to wait “a couple of years” for an investigation into Vagnini’s illegal and sadistic searches which rarely involved gloves. Credit: AlbertHerring via Flickr

The ringleader was identified as officer Michael Vagnini, a white man who routinely targeted black males as young as fifteen for sadistic — and blatantly illegal — anal searches.

One victim said that another officer put a gun to his head while Vagnini administered a choke hold, touched his scrotum and fingered his anus. Another man was probed so violently that he bled.

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