Quantum Windbag
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This isn't worse. If anything it's potentially slightly better.
There's nothing that has been shown yet to make this anything but terrible, but at least if the guy had a drug history (and maybe, possibly, had actually hidden drugs in his anus before, although that's apparently questionable at best) there's some reason for all this to have occurred to the officers in the first place; I think it would be worse if this were a totally random event.
I'm not trying to excuse anything by any means. I just think if this man had no history of drugs, it would be an even more egregious abuse of authority than it already seems to be.
Even if he had a drug history, which has not been proven one way or the other, it would not justify the warrant, let alone taking him out of the county for torture and rape.
Of course it wouldn't justify it, but at least it would be a chain of reasoning that can be seen, rather than a totally random act of douchebaggery.
They are cops, they don't need to justify their actions.