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Suit alleges police did strip searches in public
Henry K. Lee, Chronicle Staff Write - Friday, March 30, 2007
In the latest of several suits over strip searches, seven men have
filed a $5 million federal civil rights lawsuit against the city of
Oakland, saying officers conducted invasive and illegal strip searches
of them in public.
In the suit filed Wednesdayin U.S. District Court in San Francisco, the
plaintiffs said police officers pulled down their pants and exposed
their genitalia or buttocks on the street during incidents from 2005 to
2007.
The searches allegedly occurred in public throughout the city, including
along West MacArthur Boulevard and Martin Luther King Jr. Way -- both
major thoroughfares in West Oakland -- and near the intersections of
89th Avenue and Plymouth Street and of International Boulevard and 50th
Avenue, according to the suit.
